The Cable vs. Satellite Debate?

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I did some searching on here before I'm posting this question but I didn't find a question with the same circumstances that I have. I live in an apartment building Brooklyn and I currently have service with Cablevision in HD (with DVR). The cost is killing me and I see Direct TV has some incredible promotional offers right now (with DVR, of course). Even after a year when the promotional pricing ends, it's still 30% cheaper.

I always hear about satellite service getting disrupted because of heavy rain, but my cable has gone down for up to 4 hours at a time for various reasons. I've tried the rabbit ear antennae and I couldn't get any signals.

Taking customer service, equipment quality, price, and service reliability into account, should I stay with my cable service or switch to satellite?
 
I'm switching to satellite because of price and cable is not perfect. They loose there signal do to weather also.

I'm in Michigan and lost most of my channels for a couple of hours one afternoon but not any of the local broadcast channel. So with nothing to watch I watch a local new program with weather. Guess what, I see this big snow storm south of me on the TV's radar image where the cable company satellite dishs are located that pick up all that wonderful TV programing. When the storm passes, all my channels are back.

My backup plan for a imperfect world, have some video's or a couple of hours of my favorite program recorded on the DVR.

Good luck.
 
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