I am going to be moving soon and need to know which satellite dish provider to use. I must have the Speed channel for F1, and the provider would also have to have decent HD packages. Right now I'm thinking that DirecTV looks good, especially since VOOM is now officially dead. Any input would be appreciated.
Which Dish service to get?
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AndrewF150
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Screw the dish...get digital cable.
Why? Digitcal cable is better, and usally cheaper. You can get phone service, high speed, and digital cable. You can also depending on the company get OnDemand tv...which is so bad ass.
So screw the dish, get cable.
Why? Digitcal cable is better, and usally cheaper. You can get phone service, high speed, and digital cable. You can also depending on the company get OnDemand tv...which is so bad ass.
So screw the dish, get cable.
AndrewF150 said:
all depends on the cable company...I'd love to get a dish, I have adlephia digital cable, it goes out every time it rains....because they get their programming from satellites. Same goes for comcast cable, at work we have dishnet as a backup for the cable TV...
DirecTV is good, I have to deal with them alot. I work for the company that owns them...
I have digial cable right now, and it is WAY more expensive than the similar dish packages around here. The price isn't my main concern, however. My concern is the analog channels. With an HD monitor, the analog channels look horrible, while the same channels look good with a digital dish.
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i agree...go with direcTV. i used to do installs for them. i have digital cable now but only because i'm in an apartment and my porch doesn't face the right direction. why go with a service that is beamed over sats and then turned analog and then back to digital when you can get a service that is 100% digital from the sat to you. i loved my direct service from day 1. the picture quality is soooo much better than cable of any kind. i wouldn't go with dish network unless you want a HUGE banana dish in your back yard. my office handled both dish and direct and the dish guys had to stop putting them on roofs because the wind was pulling them off. dish is superior equipment but it's awfully ugly and big. plus direct just launched a bunch of new satellites to ready themselves for more channels! 
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my dish has been great. also dish just released their newest receiver.
dual-tuner HDTV dvr receiver. it can output to 2 tvs from the one receiver
or lets you record one program and watch another. Has great reviews but
won't support the next gen decoding.
the new superdish is nice too because you get everything on one dish now.
dual-tuner HDTV dvr receiver. it can output to 2 tvs from the one receiver
or lets you record one program and watch another. Has great reviews but
won't support the next gen decoding.
the new superdish is nice too because you get everything on one dish now.
get dish, just to spite cable companies, who for some reason, seem to base thier entire ******* advertising campaign on how satellites keep losing signal in bad weather. that happens maybe ONCE a ******* year. if sustaining a satellite signal for a period of 5 ******* minutes in a midnight thunderstorm, then by all means, pay an extra 20 dollars a month. comcast can suck itself.
direcTV i hear is good.
direcTV i hear is good.
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I work at Circuit City and I have to answer this question all the time. Basically it breaks down like this:
-As long as you aren't doing more than 4 rooms, satellite will cost $10-15 less per month than digital cable.
-As someone said you get 100% digital channels, unlike cable where from channel 1-60(or 40 i think), no matter whether its analog or HD cable it looks like crap.
-By the end of the summer, both Dish and Directv are launching new satellites that should give us 23(give or take) more HD channels. So thats aprox. 38 HD dish channels vs. 24 HD cable channels.
-Satellite goes out a lot less than cable. Its hilarious how many more people complain about cable going out on them.
A tip that might help, if you are going to get Directv with HD, tell them that Dish Network is offering free HD recievers(they are, Directv makes you pay $300 for each one) and they should match the offer. It has worked with all of the customers I've told. And the only real difference between Dish and Directv is that Dish offers overseas channels and Directv offers Sunday Ticket, can't live without it.
-As long as you aren't doing more than 4 rooms, satellite will cost $10-15 less per month than digital cable.
-As someone said you get 100% digital channels, unlike cable where from channel 1-60(or 40 i think), no matter whether its analog or HD cable it looks like crap.
-By the end of the summer, both Dish and Directv are launching new satellites that should give us 23(give or take) more HD channels. So thats aprox. 38 HD dish channels vs. 24 HD cable channels.
-Satellite goes out a lot less than cable. Its hilarious how many more people complain about cable going out on them.
A tip that might help, if you are going to get Directv with HD, tell them that Dish Network is offering free HD recievers(they are, Directv makes you pay $300 for each one) and they should match the offer. It has worked with all of the customers I've told. And the only real difference between Dish and Directv is that Dish offers overseas channels and Directv offers Sunday Ticket, can't live without it.
This is true. It only happen once to me too.omgwtfbbq said:get dish, just to spite cable companies, who for some reason, seem to base thier entire ******* advertising campaign on how satellites keep losing signal in bad weather. that happens maybe ONCE a ******* year. if sustaining a satellite signal for a period of 5 ******* minutes in a midnight thunderstorm, then by all means, pay an extra 20 dollars a month. comcast can suck itself.
direcTV i hear is good.
AndrewF150
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Well here is the deal with the price of dish vs price of cable. The dish companies don't have to worry about paying pole contact fees, also the FCC is a lot more relaxed with them as far as what taxes they have to pay.
Cable companys on the other hand get hit hard with FCC regulations and taxes, that can boost the cost of service.
So this being a VERY brief and EXTREMELY basic explination..
Dish services: Not hit NEARLY has hard by FCC in taxes, and by the networks in programming costs and doesn't have to worry about pole contact fee's.
Cable Company: Gets hit by the FCC nice and hard, has to worry about pole contact fees, even if they are mostly underground, have to pay high subscriber rates to the networks to get the same programming as the dish.
Now, to Mike R...yes your cable company gets its service from dishes, but they aren't your typical dish. They are going to be at least a 3 meter dish, with a multi-feedhorn set up. Each dish usally has 4 LNB's, 2 for horizontal polarity, and 2 for vertical.
Now rain doesn't effect these dishes, snow build up would however effect it. Well I suppose the only way that the rain would effect it is if they had the dishes pointed up like a bird feeder and create a bowl...but than it would work. Anyways, without getting to complicated here.
So for your service going out when it rains? Well sounds like you have a bad connection. Either a line somewhere between the tap and your house is cut, or bent and the center conductor is snapped. Or you have oxidzation in the line, or bad fittings on the end of the Co-ax.
Cable companys on the other hand get hit hard with FCC regulations and taxes, that can boost the cost of service.
So this being a VERY brief and EXTREMELY basic explination..
Dish services: Not hit NEARLY has hard by FCC in taxes, and by the networks in programming costs and doesn't have to worry about pole contact fee's.
Cable Company: Gets hit by the FCC nice and hard, has to worry about pole contact fees, even if they are mostly underground, have to pay high subscriber rates to the networks to get the same programming as the dish.
Now, to Mike R...yes your cable company gets its service from dishes, but they aren't your typical dish. They are going to be at least a 3 meter dish, with a multi-feedhorn set up. Each dish usally has 4 LNB's, 2 for horizontal polarity, and 2 for vertical.
Now rain doesn't effect these dishes, snow build up would however effect it. Well I suppose the only way that the rain would effect it is if they had the dishes pointed up like a bird feeder and create a bowl...but than it would work. Anyways, without getting to complicated here.
So for your service going out when it rains? Well sounds like you have a bad connection. Either a line somewhere between the tap and your house is cut, or bent and the center conductor is snapped. Or you have oxidzation in the line, or bad fittings on the end of the Co-ax.
I've heard people love it, but I thought it sucked. We had it for 2 years and switched to cable. To many dropouts or total signal lost. North Chicago burbs pointed at a sat over Texas. Never could dial in a signal strength better than 80, even a pro tried it. Cable is way better, and we switched to all AT&T cable, Internet, and phone and because we had all three we got $5 monthly discount on each service.
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SciFiMan said:
I've had AT&T/Comcast Digital Cable for almost three years and I'm sick of it. It goes out SO often. After more than five time of having the tech come out to figure out why my picture quality was bad, I ended up having to buy a signal booster because Comcast couldn't get a better signal to my box. You'd think that for $116 a month (tv and web) I could get a service that worked well.
And like I said before, the analog channels just will not do anymore. I don't care about the high-speed internet discount since the place I'm moving to has built in high-speed, and I don't care about phone discounts because I only have a cell-phone, no land line.
Yep. When I was still living with my folks, the only storms bad enough to knock out the signal were bad enough to knock out power too...omgwtfbbq said:get dish, just to spite cable companies, who for some reason, seem to base thier entire ******* advertising campaign on how satellites keep losing signal in bad weather. that happens maybe ONCE a ******* year. if sustaining a satellite signal for a period of 5 ******* minutes in a midnight thunderstorm, then by all means, pay an extra 20 dollars a month. comcast can suck itself.
direcTV i hear is good.
I wish I could get a satilite signal where I am now. If my balcony stuck out anout 2' I'd get Dish. But for now, I gotta suck it up and get Comcast. Bastards... I hate them...
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DISH NETWORK rocks I def. recomend them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
