Forgive me for being blunt, but actually NEITHER. I subscribed to Dish for a year & went back to cable ‘cuz I couldn’t get my “Local On The 8s” on satellite.
Yes, they did have “Local...”, but instead of honing in on the weather, radar view, & forecast of the area where I live like my cable company does, they broke the lower 48 states into 4 quadrants & mentioned only various cities across the country during that 2-minute period. Living in AR as I do, I need it to be a lil mpore precise, especially w/ the Spring tornado season just around the corner.
I had DirecTV and loved it. The HD dish is larger and it hardly ever scrambled due to storms. We swithced to comcast to save $60/mo. as I’m unemployed. But comcast came with HBO and starz which I didn’t have with DTV. Also internet speed is incredibly fast compared to dsl I had.