Satellite TV vs Cable TV

rhr said:
I like better is CableTV, FIOS for safe

Satellite is NO GOOD!!
1) Storm, bad picture / blurry
2) if house is bautiful, but dish on roof, look not beautiful
3) Risk Lightning hit Dish, will damage HDTV/DVR if they forget ground?
4) high windy will hit dish fall
5) dish is dirty, you must cleanup it every time
6) who will stole dish
7) small Asteroid or fire rain hit Satellite and blow!, no longer watch TV!

Satellite is only one TV alone

CableTV and FIOS are Multi (phone, internet, TV, VOD, Music, future more more)

I like CableTV or FIOS better!
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I hate to tell you but you are dumb about satellite.

Mostly normal storm dont cause any problem. Only bad storm like very heavy rain.

House still need use cable as it looks ugly for between from house to pole. Dish looks cool as high-tech "wireless"

All dish have build-in ground.

Few weeks ago I got almost 80mph windy and dish still stand. Dish is windproof.

My parents own Directv for 12 years and never clean. Pictures still clear.

Who carry the ladder for steal the dish? :laugh2:

Asteroid or fire rain still kill your cable. They are very rare. I never heard of that.

Dish is best than cable for anywhere. You can watch dish during you are on roadtrip.
 
The Highlander said:
I hate to tell you but you are dumb about satellite.

Mostly normal storm dont cause any problem. Only bad storm like very heavy rain.

House still need use cable as it looks ugly for between from house to pole. Dish looks cool as high-tech "wireless"

All dish have build-in ground.

Few weeks ago I got almost 80mph windy and dish still stand. Dish is windproof.

My parents own Directv for 12 years and never clean. Pictures still clear.

Who carry the ladder for steal the dish? :laugh2:

Asteroid or fire rain still kill your cable. They are very rare. I never heard of that.

Dish is best than cable for anywhere. You can watch dish during you are on roadtrip.
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lol, got agree with you, rhr need seriously research more.

People can steal cable stuff, such as digital cable receiver when break in home, plus people can damage the cable cord and that cause neighbors to unable to receive cable until repaired, remember, if car hit cable pole then cable is outage, same with lightning.
 
Sweet thank you for you said "I hate to tell you but you are dumb about satellite.", God watch you hurt me, thank you sweet!

my few friends quit DirectTV, they are unhappy, I know you try cheats us, if you make bad me, I turn Ignore you, I won't read you

The Highlander said:
I hate to tell you but you are dumb about satellite.

Mostly normal storm dont cause any problem. Only bad storm like very heavy rain.

House still need use cable as it looks ugly for between from house to pole. Dish looks cool as high-tech "wireless"

All dish have build-in ground.

Few weeks ago I got almost 80mph windy and dish still stand. Dish is windproof.

My parents own Directv for 12 years and never clean. Pictures still clear.

Who carry the ladder for steal the dish? :laugh2:

Asteroid or fire rain still kill your cable. They are very rare. I never heard of that.

Dish is best than cable for anywhere. You can watch dish during you are on roadtrip.
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rhr said:
2) if house is bautiful, but dish on roof, look not beautiful
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It happen to certain snob HOA that wouldn't allow to have Satellite because the way they want to make house in row look beautiful. And also for apartment too, depend on their decide to make us pay the deposit or not. Good Ridiculous!
 
rhr said:
Sweet thank you for you said "I hate to tell you but you are dumb about satellite.", God watch you hurt me, thank you sweet!

my few friends quit DirectTV, they are unhappy, I know you try cheats us, if you make bad me, I turn Ignore you, I won't read you
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Come on, man.

I had enough with your whine about CC issue in digital cable I have 3 word to say: GET A DIRECTV!

Need repeat, GET A DIRECTV!

That's it, also quit being misled or make you looks dumb.
 
I've had cable all my life, 4 years ago started my first digital cable for 3 years, then last year I got DirecTV. Early January this year, we had a heavy wind storm with hurricane strength sustained winds. 5 straight miles of telephone poles were brought to the ground, and we were without electricity for 3 days while the infrastructure was rebuilt. Our dish was still firmly bolted to our roof. When electricity was restored, TV works perfectly with no problems. CC works a million times better than cable for me, and I had two different cable companies in three different cities and five different districts. I can't help but also point out that if a small asteroid hit my roof, I'd very likely be dead anyway, so I wouldn't care whether it damaged my dish OR my cable line. The one and only thing I don't like about DirecTV is the guide has limited features. The worst part about the guide is that it lists channels that I haven't subscribed to, so I find something I want to watch, and it's on a channel I don't have. They think it will make me subscribe to more channels. I will NOT fall for that! I didn't have that problem with my digital cable providers. My digital cable was interrupted during storms more often than dish because the cable is on poles high in the wind for miles and miles. Cars are more likely to crash into any one of those poles than they are to crash into the roof of my house. The wind can't blow the signal away from a dish. We do have outages during extremely heavy snow, but that happens for about 5 minutes per year in my area. My sister is stuck with cable, and she wants dish, but she can't get it because her house is in an area that has too many tall trees that block the signal.

I hope that wasn't too scattered o=)
 
PowerON said:
I'll like to add that when there is windy or bad storm as rainy. Satellite will cause the digital in trouble for moment.
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it called "rain fade" when the picture is completely black due to thick of storm clouds because the dish is smaller it was unable to through signal. but the cable companies have bigger satellite dish and it can signal thorugh the satellite during the storm. the Ku or C-band satellite owner has huge satellite dish can able signal through the satellite during the storm from home.
 
Sun Spot can cause inference all of the wireless signal such as Satellite TV and Radio, Cable TV Head End equipments such as use C-band or KU band satellite or use digital microwave antenna signal to the local broadcast such as NBC, CBS, FOX etc... , OTA Analog and Digital TV, cell phone, Wi-fi and many different equipments, when Sun Spot disappers then the wireless signal will restore again also if sun spot can serious damage the high voltage electricity line. could it happened in the future!!!

if the hurricane is happened the cable line is damaged you will not able to watch Cable TV but if you use OTA HDTV, dependable the broadcaster's antenna is survive or if damage ... it dependable on the conditions. if you have own digital DBS satellite such as Dish or DirecTV, if heavy cloudy or heavy storm and it will cause "rain fade" when the cloudy is thinnest then it will restore the satellite signal back again itself automatically. the wireless cellular phone is might be work or not if the cellular phone infrastructure network is outage or damaged or still in active when if the utility service is experienced outage then they will put an emergency generator to keep running for cellular phone infrastructure is working in case of emergency calls if regular cellular antenna is damage they will set up the temporary cellular tower trailer called " Cellular On Wheel as COW" until regular cellular antenna is replace or repaired complete, and you can use cellular data in case of your wired high speed internet service is temporary out of order.


if your house's power is outage, you need to get an emergency generator or emergency power supply box ( contains battery, solar power, and power inverter) for your equipment needs.
 
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Pacman said:
That's illogical.

I'm Directv user for 2 years and got proud of it, bold in statement that isn't true.

I don't have any issues with quality during bad storm, only got very bad during heavy snowstorm or blizzard, that's not happen so often and recovery will be issued after that without need for repair, I never clean satellite and quality looks great. You said who stole? there's someone who damage the cable, make no difference, there's no fire rain or asteroid then you should talk like myth.

Only for 1 TV set? Not true, Directv support 5 TV, we are connected Directv to 5 TV at same bills, unlike digital cable that require additional bill for additional tv.


Directv offers 100% digital picture since landline cable (analog cable) isn't 100% digital picture.
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My friend have 1 Dish Network converter box (as known receiver) with dual Satellite tuner input and dual RF output with built-in frequency modulator, 1 for bed 1 for living room room. his dish antenna have dual LNB.

The satellite converter is in living room, no satellite converter in bedroom! the satellite converter just send signal through cable line to bedroom. The remote control use VHF frequency for satellite receiver controls and IR beam use only TV and VCR controls the remote control able to through the wall. He have two VHF and IR beam combo remote controls.

his home does not have a cable TV service and He is only have Satellite TV service. also He cannot get a wired high speed internet such as DSL or Cable. He have his own CDMA2000 1xEVDO Rev A for Sprint Sierra Wireless 595U Aircard, He can get Cradlepoint Cellular MBR1000 router to hook up his home network and VP.

He is live out of city limit zone.
 
coolguy1973fla said:
My friend have 1 Dish Network converter box (as known receiver) with dual Satellite tuner input and dual RF output with built-in frequency modulator, 1 for bed 1 for living room room. his dish antenna have dual LNB.

The satellite converter is in living room, no satellite converter in bedroom! the satellite converter just send signal through cable line to bedroom. The remote control use VHF frequency for satellite receiver controls and IR beam use only TV and VCR controls the remote control able to through the wall. He have two VHF and IR beam combo remote controls.

his home does not have a cable TV service and He is only have Satellite TV service. also He cannot get a wired high speed internet such as DSL or Cable. He have his own CDMA2000 1xEVDO Rev A for Sprint Sierra Wireless 595U Aircard, He can get Cradlepoint Cellular MBR1000 router to hook up his home network and VP.

He is live out of city limit zone.
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It's not good at most time, I had few of my friend who had problem with TV without receiver when cable line to their TV and they got blurry quality of picture that compared to other TV with receiver then they ended up and order receiver to address the issue, Dish network has losing subscribers so recently as Directv keep goes increase more subscribers.

Dish network don't offers several of my favorite channel that I want, Dish network sucks.

I don't want live in any place that don't offers cable internet or DSL, I must have DSL or cable internet since cellular wireless is so slow and high latency (ping).
 
I have been thinking of switching from Comcast TV to DirectTV but keep using Comcast Internet. Someday I could purchase the NFL Pass.
 
Pacman said:
It's not good at most time, I had few of my friend who had problem with TV without receiver when cable line to their TV and they got blurry quality of picture that compared to other TV with receiver then they ended up and order receiver to address the issue, Dish network has losing subscribers so recently as Directv keep goes increase more subscribers.

Dish network don't offers several of my favorite channel that I want, Dish network sucks.

I don't want live in any place that don't offers cable internet or DSL, I must have DSL or cable internet since cellular wireless is so slow and high latency (ping).
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I had been used since 1999 to 2003 for USSB & DirecTV subscriber.

I ve been used Bellsouth Fastaccess DSL 1999 to 2002 I was switch to Adelphia also I currently use Comcast High Speed Internet 12mbp download and 1mbp upload and I was change the router from Linksys WRT300N to Cradlepoint MBR1000 have failure detector for USB for alternate connection for sierra wireless AC595U or Blackberry smartphone and WAN ethanet for primary connection to my cable modem. if wired high speed internet for is down then it automatically switch to my sierra wireless aircard 595U when the wired high speed internet is restore and it will automatically connect to cable modem
 
coolguy1973fla said:
I had been used since 1999 to 2003 for USSB & DirecTV subscriber.

I ve been used Bellsouth Fastaccess DSL 1999 to 2002 I was switch to Adelphia also I currently use Comcast High Speed Internet 12mbp download and 1mbp upload and I was change the router from Linksys WRT300N to Cradlepoint MBR1000 have failure detector for USB for alternate connection for sierra wireless AC595U or Blackberry smartphone and WAN ethanet for primary connection to my cable modem. if wired high speed internet for is down then it automatically switch to my sierra wireless aircard 595U when the wired high speed internet is restore and it will automatically connect to cable modem
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Cellular wireless still don't give enough strength and latency, I have BB 8330 with EVDO rev. 0 (no rev. A supported due bandwidth limitation in BB 8330) and got usually 600-800 kbps when tethering to laptop, it won't enough for video streaming via Media Player, Hulu, Google Earth and everything other than internet.

I had called Verizon tech support to remove the tethering plan due dissatisfied with speed and strength.
 
Pacman said:
Cellular wireless still don't give enough strength and latency, I have BB 8330 with EVDO rev. 0 (no rev. A supported due bandwidth limitation in BB 8330) and got usually 600-800 kbps when tethering to laptop, it won't enough for video streaming via Media Player, Hulu, Google Earth and everything other than internet.

I had called Verizon tech support to remove the tethering plan due dissatisfied with speed and strength.
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EVDO Rev 0 is not compatible for VP or live video (high pixel res.) due to high latency. you can use compression video like as low bandwidth or you can download video to your hard disk drive and after download, you can watch video offline. You can use basic surf the web but if you have WiFi, you can use broadband and you can use webcam VP via laptop

My T-mobile Blackberry 8100 use EDGE is worse high latency it like as 2x Dial up access than Sprint EVDO Rev 0 but EDGE is about same speed as CDMA 1xRTT, GPRS is much slower than EDGE and 1xRTT.

If I reach 1xRTT coverage area I will not use online live streaming or download for multimedia, I can use basic website only. If I reach 1xEVDO Rev 0 I can download the file for video in my hard disk drive and I watch video by offline. If I reach 1xEVDO Rev A, I can able to use online live video streaming or I can use VP.

I have Sprint Connection Manager for Cellular infrastructure type as 1xRTT, 1xEVDO Rev 0 and A and signal strength
and I check coverage map through website

test was result

T-mobile EDGE

150kbp download
70kbp upload

Sprint:

1xEVDO Rev A

2,500kbp download
512kbp upload

1x EVDO Rev 0

but I was not been test about upload speed. but the download speed is only max 800kbp

I have Wilson external cellular antenna for more strength signal for my sierra wireless aircard 595U

I will buy cellular amplifier for to pick up weak signal to gain up more strength during highway or riding on the train
 
rhr said:
I like better is CableTV, FIOS for safe

Satellite is NO GOOD!!
1) Storm, bad picture / blurry
2) if house is bautiful, but dish on roof, look not beautiful
3) Risk Lightning hit Dish, will damage HDTV/DVR if they forget ground?
4) high windy will hit dish fall
5) dish is dirty, you must cleanup it every time
6) who will stole dish
7) small Asteroid or fire rain hit Satellite and blow!, no longer watch TV!

Satellite is only one TV alone

CableTV and FIOS are Multi (phone, internet, TV, VOD, Music, future more more)

I like CableTV or FIOS better!
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I had experience with satellite DIRECTV when a little heavy snow, signal
would already dropped out. I prefer Cable TV. But I wish we have FIOS
in Twin Cities. :(
 
CCfan said:
I had experience with satellite DIRECTV when a little heavy snow, signal
would already dropped out. I prefer Cable TV. But I wish we have FIOS
in Twin Cities. :(
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Verizon FIOS has receiver that contain bad CC setting, it's Motorola HD receiver that where CC were so limited and poorly written.

You could ask darkage because he had been use Verizon FIOS but not anymore.

Directv is only one company that has best CC setting for HD receiver, it's fully customize.

Heavy snow doesn't give a big issue on mine.
 
Nicole here:wave:-If you go with satellite over cable I highly recommend DISH Network because of the money saved. They're offering HD programming free for life and many of the packages have a price guarantee until 2013. That means no worries about unwanted price increases plus DISH offers more HD channels than any other provider. I just started working there, that's why I'm full of all these random facts. But non-the-less, check 'em out.
 
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