If you are thinking of switching from a cable company to satellite service, then you might not have gotten acquainted with high definition programming yet. This is because cable service providers are now and always will be lagging behind satellite service providers, in the area of high definition programming.

There are a few reasons for this and one of them is that they are limited by the cables themselves in how many high definition channels that they can carry. With out going into all the science, satellite service providers can carry a lot more channels of high definition programming, because they broadcast by satellite through the atmosphere.

Another reason is that cable, service providers have always lagged behind satellite service providers, technologically speaking. While the visionaries who spear headed satellite service were building and loading satellites into rockets to be blasted into space to bring you state of the art TV programming. Cable service provides were still digging ditches with a pick and shovel and rolling out their rolls of cable.

They knew decades ago, that their technology would be obsolete in a matter of years and when satellite service arrived, they looked at it the way horse carriage builders looked at the first cars that appeared on the road a hundred years ago.

Satellite service providers have turned out to be the broadcasters to bring us high definition programming. Cable service provides might feature a token number of high definition channels but nothing close to the thirty-one high definition channels that Dish Network has for you.

It's important that a service provider have a large selection of high definition channels, because then you are guaranteed to have plenty of programming that interests you. Pity the poor cable service subscriber that is stuck with an extended service contract and only has access to a few channels of high definition programming and none of them are interesting.

High definition is a special thing and it is the latest technology in TV programming and Dish Network plans to take it and run with it. They have plans to add more channels on to the thirty-one that they currently have in the not too distant future.

The cost of a good quality high definition TV set has fallen dramatically in recent years and what used to be out of so many peoples reach, is now within their grasp financially. The picture on the high definition big screened TV is fantastic, because it is twice as defined and precise as a standard definition TV.

Big screened TVs used to look great from a distance but viewed from up close, the picture was vague and sometimes fuzzy. This is not the case though with the high definition big screened TV. Even from a few feet away it looks great.

High definition is the first improvement in the standard TV screen since it changed from black and white to color and it's about time. Look to Dish Network for your high definition programming and you can be sure that you will have all the channels that you need.