I have both Sat and Digital cable, I much prefer the Sat over digital cable in all aspects; sound, picture, clarity. Now I am just waiting for them to launch the HDTV signal on the cable network in the next month or two. They are going neighborhood by neighborhood here, 5 minutes from where I live they have 8 HDTV channels on cable. Oh well I guess I will just have to wait to see how good it is when they do fianlly get into my area. I just recently came back from Australia and they are miles ahead on HDTV then we are. By the end of this year they will have all channels broadcast in HDTV, and from watching it during my stay the picture and sound was amazing.