It seems no one is really happy with cable. We had dish first and then lost our reception and despite cutting some limbs, we still couldn't get reception. We couldn't cut our neighbor's trees.
Years and years ago we had the big dish and I loved that, but the little dish just never worked. And even though we couldn't get reception and they told us there was nothing they could do, they gave us a really hard time, wanting to charge us for the equipment. It was so long ago I don't really remember the details.