Author Topic: SATELITTE VS DIGITAL CABLE..... which one is better? (Read 1116 times)

funkedup · « **Reply #15 on:** May 27, 2003, 12:02:32 AM »

The main thing about getting a dish is that you don't have to deal with the @#$@#$ cable company. The dish companies are not perfect but they beat the heck out of tyrannical local monopolies.

funkedup · « **Reply #16 on:** May 27, 2003, 12:04:44 AM »

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I'd go broadcast basic and satellite.

Why both? All the locals are available on the satellite.

Nifty · « **Reply #17 on:** May 27, 2003, 08:01:46 AM »

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Originally posted by funkedup
Why both? All the locals are available on the satellite.

not everyone lives near a big enough city for DirecTV to offer local channels. I can't get locals in Pensacola. It's some territorial BS with the broadcasts and cable companies, so the local channel package just isn't offered here (or wasn't when I got the service.) I don't understand it at all. Regardless, it'd be cheaper for me to do basic cable as long as I get my broadband through the cable company.

That said, I don't know how the other sats do their locals.

vorticon · « **Reply #18 on:** May 27, 2003, 08:13:16 AM »

digital cable is allright up here...i always find it much quicker and easier to use than those stupid sattelite things...

in the end its all the same weather you have standard or digital cable or sattelite...

hundreds of channels and ABSALUTLY NOTHING on...

ill just stick with my bunny ears thank you very much...

Wlfgng · « **Reply #19 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:11:13 AM »

Direct TV beats our digital cable hands down.

clarity, choices, price, etc etc etc

Eagler · « **Reply #20 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:22:19 AM »

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Originally posted by Nifty
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That said, I don't know how the other sats do their locals.

you get them with a cheezy antenna connected to dish (fuzzy analog) free or pay for them off the satellite (digital)

http://www.vmcsatellite.com/channels/local.cfm

Eagler · « **Reply #21 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:27:26 AM »

the real reason most ppl have dish over cable

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Nifty · « **Reply #22 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:43:24 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
the real reason most ppl have dish over cable

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actually, I switched to sat for espn classic, and the Sports Pack (LOTS of college games, and pro games in my market.) This in addition to better quality of my signal as well (rain not withstanding.) Of course, a few months after I switched, my digital cable started offering espn classic. No biggie, I still have the regional sports networks and DirecTV has College Sports TV now as well. Fun watching those old college football games.

as for porn, Eagler... my digital cable offered as much PPV porn as DirecTV does. Pretty much the same channels I think. I wouldn't know, why pay for porn on TV when I can find it free online?

Dinger · « **Reply #23 on:** May 27, 2003, 09:46:29 AM »

Digital Cable has porn too.

Well, I think the verdict's in.
Unless you live in an area with an extended rainy season, Satellite and Digital Cable owners agree: go satellite.

And funked: yeah, looking at the list of "locals" Eagler provided, they're missing the #1 market share station in my area, so those I know with the satellite get broadcast basic (it may even be part of the package out here). The local cable company is kind enough to provide all those other channels so TVs away from the satellite receiver can show junk as well.

And, yeah, there's never anything on. But with hundreds of channels, it takes an hour to figure that out

LePaul · « **Reply #24 on:** May 27, 2003, 10:15:52 AM »

I've been a happy Dish Network Customer for several years. I do have cable for just Internet (Powerlink)..$55 a month

I trimmed out all the movie stations (HBO, etc) and I think I'm in the "Top 150" channels, plus added in Fox and a few other stations...230-239, whatever they are (KTLA, WGN, etc) All for $40 a month

All the time I've had Dish (4+ years), I've only had three times when the weather was so bad I had no signal...twice were severe snowstorms and another was a big windstorm that had the trees waving in the path of my dish.

So for a total of just under $100, I do better than if I had all this under cable, whch was like $125 or so.

Eagler · « **Reply #25 on:** May 27, 2003, 10:50:54 AM »

sat reception is dependant on your location in its "footprint" .

http://www.scottandmichelle.net/scott/dtv.html

http://www.geo-orbit.org/westhemipgs/fdbs12p.html

the farther east you are the lower the signal strength and more likely you'll have issues with bad weather

don't forget the sun outages every spring and fall when the sun gets in direct alignment with your dish and satellite. Kinda kills the signal for a few minutes each afternoon for about a week.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #26 on:** May 27, 2003, 10:57:53 AM »

doesn't happen here
actually I've never had a drop out, even during blizzards

Mini D · « **Reply #27 on:** May 27, 2003, 10:58:33 AM »

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Originally posted by Pfunk
I highly doubt he has HDTV seeing as he is currently using rabbit ears for reception.

Ummm... Portland broadcasts everything in HDTV. Pretty sure alot of arials will still grab it... some "rabit ears" advertise it too.

Besides... HDTV is usually driven more by DvD type stuff than anything.

MiniD

midnight Target · « **Reply #28 on:** May 27, 2003, 11:37:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
don't forget the sun outages every spring and fall when the sun gets in direct alignment with your dish and satellite. Kinda kills the signal for a few minutes each afternoon for about a week.

Had this from my digital provider in March. They get a satellite signal too.

TPIguy · « **Reply #29 on:** May 27, 2003, 12:22:19 PM »

When I lived in Miami our dish would go out whenever there was a heavy thunderstorm. Which during the summer was multiple times a week. Other times the signal would degrade some and the screen would pixelate.

This was a few years ago, I don't know if things have changed any since.