Cable or Satellite dish ??
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Keep it clean! 
I have broadband thru the cable so I don't think I have any options. My broadband is only running half speed tho
My son has had direct experience with a friend's dish setup and does not like it. I have never seen a dish or direct setup. We have a very good but very $$$$$$$ cable system here.
I have broadband thru the cable so I don't think I have any options. My broadband is only running half speed tho
My son has had direct experience with a friend's dish setup and does not like it. I have never seen a dish or direct setup. We have a very good but very $$$$$$$ cable system here.
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Over-compressed signal??
How in the world could they have an over-compressed signal? You signal loss is through the coax. Cable companies receive the signal the same way the a Direct TV dish receives it. They just have to run routers and boosters to maintain the " Analog " signal. Each time you amplify it you get signal distortion. Digital is far superior to analog. I just want to know what you meant by over-compressed I guess.
How in the world could they have an over-compressed signal? You signal loss is through the coax. Cable companies receive the signal the same way the a Direct TV dish receives it. They just have to run routers and boosters to maintain the " Analog " signal. Each time you amplify it you get signal distortion. Digital is far superior to analog. I just want to know what you meant by over-compressed I guess.
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A remember reading something about that a few years ago. Seems that the Satellite providers were allocating certain amounts of their resource (for lack of the correct term) to each channel but during certain times of the day or night they would decrease the optimum amount of resources, which wouldn’t normally be noticed. However if certain action scenes such as explosions, flowing water scenes etc…were being watched, the result would be the random digital blocks flashing on the screen.
Is that what your referring to as over-compressed?
Is that what your referring to as over-compressed?
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Yes, that is exactly what he is refering to on the compression statement. As I said before- most viewers will not notice or care.
I've had cable and Directv and Dish and get more channels cheaper and with better overall quality and service than any of the three cable systems that I'm familiar with in this area.
I've known nobody that goes back to cable after switching to Satallite.
The downtime because of storms is overated- maybe a total of 2 hours a year are lost in my experience over the years. Cable systems can actually lose their downlinks during the exact same storms because- suprise!- they use satallite to get their signals too.
I've had cable and Directv and Dish and get more channels cheaper and with better overall quality and service than any of the three cable systems that I'm familiar with in this area.
I've known nobody that goes back to cable after switching to Satallite.
The downtime because of storms is overated- maybe a total of 2 hours a year are lost in my experience over the years. Cable systems can actually lose their downlinks during the exact same storms because- suprise!- they use satallite to get their signals too.
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From: SW Michigan
I had dish for two years . We only lost signal during the big storms.I have cable now ,the problem I had was the pay per view movies and specials.Some months the bill was over $150.00. My kids all admit to using it but collecting the cash was the problem.Plus I have TVs all over the house so all weren't hooked up. SAV
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