Dish Network vs Direct TV: How to Choose So You Don't Get Screwed

Okay, so maybe at 24 years old it was time for me to move out of my parent's house. I think the hardest part for them was sitting down and actually saying the words, "We think it's time you get your own place."

Was it kind of a shock? Well, yeah. But after about five minutes I started thinking about all the ways I could pimp out a place of my own, and I started getting pretty excited.

I could finally have the TV I want, and play it as loud as I wanted, whenever I wanted. Same thing with videogames, my iPod, and on and on.

So as soon as the conversation was over I went online looking for information comparing Dish Network vs Direct TV. No way was I gonna continue watching lame cable in MY place.

Digitalization of Entertainment

Consumers have changed rapidly to adopting digital formats for consuming entertainment-related content. The most obvious example of this is music and video downloads, with Apple’s iTunes and YouTube as leading examples. Apple has sold more than one billion songs via its iTunes music store and it continues to demonstrate a spectacular rate of growth. Over 30,000,000 individuals have purchased an iPod portable music device, and tens of millions of other consumers use one of dozens of other portable devices to listen to music. Other platforms for listening to music are equally successful, and in the case of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player even more dominant with over 90,000,000 systems running the software globally. Real Networks Rhapsody, and Yahoo! Music represent other major entrants in this space. In addition to those companies selling licensed music downloads for a fee, peer-to-peer networks such as Limewire and Morpheus claim to have tens of millions of users sharing music and other files on a continual basis.