satellite or Cable?


Satellite or Cable?  

93 members have voted

  1. 1. What do you watch on your tv?

    • Direct Tv
      12
    • Cable
      15
    • Digital Cable
      22
    • Cable / Internet
      17
    • None of the Above. I hate TV.
      5
    • I can't afford tv goodies I have local channels
      6
    • Whats a tv?
      4
    • Dish Network
      8
    • Other Satellite system
      4


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lol, if mods could help please i forgot to add dishnetwork hehe sorry.

Local channels. Parents refuse to purchase 200 channels consisted of rap, soaps, repeats, competitions and cheesy gameshows.

Why dont you pay for it? When I lived with my parents they didn't want to pay for it either so I called my local cable provider and they installed it the same week. $25.00 for 3 months and after that $65. Then I got tired of them went to DirectTv and they sucked big time. So once I moved to my own home I got dishnetwork!

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Digital Cable... Over here in Canada, the local channels aren't even free unless you use an antenna.

Rogers' charge WAY too much though. About $60 CDN a month.

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Bluewater CableTV - Digital Max + Internet (5mb) for $99/mth

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I have Digital cable - 200+ channels and I still can't find anything worth watching!

Local channels. Parents refuse to purchase 200 channels consisted of rap, soaps, repeats, competitions and cheesy gameshows.

You could get a Freeview box for about ?40 - assuming that it's available in Boscastle...

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Dishnetwork, which is not an option on the poll...

you forgot to add satalite on the poll :s

lol, if mods could help please i forgot to add dishnetwork hehe sorry.

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Freeview and thats only so hubby can watch BBC News 24 and Sky News.No way would I pay for extra channels.

Been there,done that,saw the repeat,saw the repeat and saw the repeat :rolleyes: :D

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i'm a fan of dish network myself.

I concur.

I moved away from cable before it became digital for bang for buck reasons. One cable box with about 50 channels was running me at $42/month and then after my switch to Dish Network, I was paying $52/month for two boxes with over 140 channels including ESPN2, ESPNEWS, and other few channels cable didn't offer that I wanted.

I haven't looked back since :)

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i was thinking of getting a black market satellite system (unfortunately here in Canada thats the only option to get direct US feeds (as in not edited etc)...i didnt because i work for a cable company :blush: and i get a good discount....but i still hate it :angry:

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"Other Satellite System"

FTA from all over Europe and Sky for a few channels, although there's nothing on worth watching on the pay channels. For what I do watch I could buy the DVDs with the same money, and get them with no adverts or DOGs, and in the right aspect ratio. Although that's with the Multiroom - the rest couldn't cope without Sky Sports or Sky One. :whistle:

I love satellite - it's very geeky, but there's all sorts of cool things going on which would never be on a cable EPG. Not to mention with one dish you can get the German, French, English and numerous other channels, all on one box too, and all for free.

Not to mention all the feeds, most of them also FTA. Late Show on the CBS News Feed before it's chopped and ruined by ITV4. If you have the right 4:2:2 gear, like a PCI card in your computer, you can get all the feeds of news reporters standing around etc. Yeah, ok, some of us don't have a life...

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Digital Cable of course, when you buy a 42" Dell Plasma i'm going to put that to use! HDTV is only way to go, once you go HD you never go back!

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