The cable television industry still has a lot of new cable to install, so to speak, in terms of increasing their number of HD TV channels to catch up to demand. As fiber optic digital cable and other technologies are developed and installed so does the Cable television business. The closer you are to your inner city or Cable company the happier your likely to be. Their reach is getting further and further out especially for their internet service. I’ve had more and more old customers who couldn’t get it before have Cable reach their home than ever before.

Cable is now offering one of the fastest Internet speeds in the United States, as it rolls out new services in cities all over the country. Minneapolis and St. Paul, the famous Twin Cities, will be enjoying service with up to a hundred Megabits per second download speeds, and up to fifteen Mbps upload speeds. In Washington DC and the surrounding area, as well as the Philadelphia area, Southern New Jersey, and Northern Delaware, Cable is offering fifty Mbps download speeds – not as fast as in the Twin Cities, but still nothing to sneeze at.

These services have come about because of Cable’s powerful deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 technology, a next generation tech that sets new standards when it comes to high speed Internet access across fiber optic networks. We call this technology wideband Internet access, as opposed to more conventional broadband access, and it’s likely to allow Cable to deliver even faster speeds in the future. That means that relatively soon, you could be enjoying this technology, even if you don’t live in any of the areas where the rollout is happening. If you do, be sure to check out your options – it might be time to change your service!

The difference between Digital cable and analog cable is very much like the difference between a DVD player and an indoor antenna or outdoor antenna. Typically, your happier with your picture watching the DVD player. What’s similar to many Dish Network and Directv installations is that you need a digital cable receiver on each TV similar to a digital satellite receiver in order to get the digital service. Digital cable rates are also similar to satellite TV at and around a $5 fee for each TV, sometimes $10 or more for DVR (digital video recorder) other digital cable services.

Many happy customers just install the digital service on their main home theater digital cable TV and leave the lesser watched TV’s to analog. It works out well when your secondary TV’s are smaller where the picture quality difference (antenna compared to DVD quality ratio is less obvious) is less noticeable.

If you do want all digital cable services on all your TV’s then a digital cable receiver becomes cheaper than the competition when you start adding it to more than 4 TV’s throughout your house. Satellite TV charges more for setup of the additional boxes, wiring and installation than digital cable if you get to that point. Also many Dish Network and Directv accounts are limited to 6 receivers so unless you work out a special deal, which isn’t always a guarantee, your best bet in this case would be Digital Cable TV.
Customers who want to use the full range Digital Cable channels and features, such as On Demand, pay-per-view and the interactive program guide, will need a set-top box provided by Cable for additional televisions.

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