I have cable and have had very few problems with it reception wise. However, it is a little on the expensive side. The main reason being that since I live in a small town the cable company that services my area really has no competition other then satellite and unfortunately because of the weather people who do have satellites seem to have quite a lot of problems with them. There is talk of another cable company soon to offer services in my area as well so that may cause the prices to go down a bit.