Cable vs Satellite

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I am very p.o'd at the cable company for not airing the giants game here in South FL. Argh!

Satellite is definetly in the plans for the future!
 
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I am the opposite. I don't have cable or satellite because I don't want to pay for most of the channels I'd get.
 
I'm with Greg on this. We don't have either. Just the rabbit ears and a digital converter box. We gave up on cable about 6 or 7 years ago becuase almost everything we watched was on the regular channels. Channels like HBO and Showtime rarely have anything good any more. Of course it helps that I really don't watch any sports on TV so I don't miss that.
 
We discontinued the satellite as soon as cable came available and will never go back. Lost signals in bad weather. Most of the channels we never watched. e.g. many 'auction/sales' channels, many religious, many foreign language, many so hokey I can't believe anyone would ever watch, pure waste. Cable is good picture in all weather. And, most of channels have programming we watch. And, less costly.
 
I am also with Frank on this. Given the choice, I will pick cable. It really is a big hassle when service goes down during bad weather (when you need it most)..
 
Not to defend the cable companies, (I work for one) but I do know that most
programming costs are going up.

It used to be that the cable company picked up the free signal and took on
the cost of getting it out to the consumer. It was a win for the customer
because they got content they couldn't get with an antenna, a win for the
station because they could now reach a larger audience, a win for the
advertisers because they increased their coverage and the cable company
got paid for the service.

Now, the stations and networks charge a fortune for the feeds. New stations
that open up don't even bother to put up a broadcast antenna,
they just sell themselves to a large conglomerate. If the cable company
declines to buy their signal, the big conglomerate strong arm the sat and
cable companies by tying the station to a package of affiliates.
(ie. buy this station or lose all your Fox affiliates..)

I know that in my town alone, ESPN costs $1.05 per month for each cable
subscriber (whether they watch it or not). The NFL wanted the cable and
satellite companies to pay $13 for each customer for the NFL network.
At last count, only about 4% of customers wanted it, but the NFL wanted
EVERY cable and sat customer to pay for it as part of basic service.
I think all cable and sat companies declined, since the NFL agreement
with networks already carry all but about 8 games a year.
Look for cable and sat bills to go up, or content to be moved to second or
third tier channel packages as stations and networks up their fees..
 
Antenna for me I cant watch everything I want on that so it seems a wast of money to me. The only complaint I have with it is when some dumb a## station puts on some sports crap and then shorts my shows because they went to long or doesn't show them at all. That really burns me.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Jay
 
When my contract expires with Directv I'm going back to cable. If it even looks like it's gunna rain it goes out, sometimes it goes out just because...
I had to try it because the cable guys were getting too expensive...now I know what expensive is.
Vern
 
If the cable goes up too high, I will drop them and go back to having a lower blood pressure. Edited .... was too vocal.
 
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I had Directtv for years, when we bought a HDTV last year call them about hooking up HD and was told It would cost me $300. I was told for new customers it would free. So much for keeping old coutumers happy. I told them to cut the service off, and called comcast and they where out, hooked me up within 2 days. Directtv has been trying to get me back with everything free, since go figure that one out.

Jack
 
woodman928 said:
Antenna for me I cant watch everything I want on that so it seems a wast of money to me. The only complaint I have with it is when some dumb a## station puts on some sports crap and then shorts my shows because they went to long or doesn't show them at all. That really burns me.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
Jay
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They replay soap operas late at night.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 
I hate when I cant sell all of my Stargate Atlantis :mad-tongue: I think they should only put sports on after midnight or put the last few minutes and overtimes on then. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: If I wanted to see a ball game I would have went to the stadium.
Jay
 
cable AND satellite

Got cable at the house in Florida (along with internet service), got Direct TV in North Ga (cable non-existant). Neither one of them is worth a tinkers dam as far as programming, but gotta keep momma happy :biggrin:. I could do without either as we have plenty of movies on DVD. :rolleyes:

I have found that the DSL in the mountains is almost as fast as the cable in the city - must have to do with the number of subscribers.
 
gcurran said:
Got cable at the house in Florida (along with internet service), got Direct TV in North Ga (cable non-existant). Neither one of them is worth a tinkers dam as far as programming, but gotta keep momma happy :biggrin:. I could do without either as we have plenty of movies on DVD. :rolleyes:

I have found that the DSL in the mountains is almost as fast as the cable in the city - must have to do with the number of subscribers.
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We think we could get Direct-TV here in TN in lieu of Dish, but we set up with Dish through the phone company.. think they just acted as agent for Dish. Program package is pretty dismal.. lots of QVC channels and multitude of others we don't watch... wife watches CNN about 80% of the time, then her girly shows after that.. not soaps, Dancing with Stars, American Idol, etc... I watch a few cop type shows... fortunately we both have separate computers and tv's so there's no conflict. For the computers we have DSL, but I think I would prefer to have broadband through cable... might be a little less expensive to have a single package of Cable and broadband like we had in Houston. Here we get separate bill for DSL, for phone, for satelite.

But like you, I don't watch much TV, mostly bores me. My step-son is a long haul trucker and he buys movies to entertain himself on his off hours, so periodically he comes home and drops off a bag of movies... I think we have about 800 right now... we had more but he took a bunch to the half-price store a couple of months ago... about 500 I think.
Some of them are movies I would never watch... but occasionally he has some pretty good ones.
 
There is a cover for satelite dishes that will keep the rain of the dish; what I have also done is take the bottom out of an empty can that fits over the receiver and have it just over the edge like a shade not to much just to keep water and wet snow off, but a realy tight plastic cover over the whole thing should work they do over radar, same thing radio or electronic signals.
helgi.
 
I dropped my cable when the price went to $125/month and got dish network for the introductry price of like $30/month. Get more channels and the service has been good. When my 2 year contract is up middle of next year I'll see who can give me the best deal at that time
 
What are the giants?????:) Satellite at our house cable was to unreliable for years, out for hours and days. Satellite blocked by bad weather clouds rarely more than a few minutes.
 
I have a 144" antenna in the attic. With ATSC HD TV's, I can pick up 26 stations that I would watch from the Milwaukee and Chicago markets. Add another 20 or so weather and foreign language channels. With the all digital signal coming in February, the word is more and more over the air channels will be coming our way and once the analog signal is gone, the digital signal power will be increased. I sometimes pick up channels from Michigan and South Bend Indiana. While weather can sometimes impact channel availability, it is FREE. HD quality is actually better with over the air brodcast compared with Cable and Dish.
 
I live on the back side of a small mountain, so I get ONE radio station
(fortunately, they play a couple hours of jazz at night) and zero TV signal.
Not even a bad signal. Not even with an antenna.
 
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