digital cable vs. satellite standard definition

It doesn't matter how good the picture is when you lose your sat signal, it may not hapen often but when it does it's quite frustrating. Personally I'd go cable.

By the way I have satellite now but will change to cable when I move in August.

If you are watching tv via a dvr, with a cable company dvr, they compress the signal more as the disc fills up, so video quality goes down. with a directv/TIVO box there is only one quality (best).

cable is a bit better, I used to be a firm Satelite guy, but "on demand" thru cable is really a great feature, siganl loss with Satelite is a real pain.....cool thing with cable is if it does go out I just watch concerts and movies from the DVR.

Is there much differnece between digital cable resolution and regular satellite resolution?

Dbriana, you should check out www.avsforum.com and www.dbstalk.com. You can wander the threads and see what the videophiles are saying.