>Serius, you realy must live way outside civilisation to go thru this
>effort to get TV !
Satallite TV isn't an effort thing... it is a how bad do I want to be
ripped off by cable thing. (Remember, these are 18" dishes... they are
popping up all over the place)
Around here, Basic Cable (40 channels, no HBO or nothing) costs $62.00 a
month. $10 more for each pay channel you want (HBO, Cinimax, Stars,
Encore, TMC, or Showtime).
Satallite TV (Dish Network) gives me 200+ channels, PLUS all the pay
channels (5 HBO, 3 Cinimax, tons of others... roughly 40 pay channels in
all), PLUS country wide "superstations" (WB, UPN, so I can watch
Smallville 3 times every tuesday... cause Enterprise sucks so I have to
have SOME show to be addicted to) PLUS local broadcast networks (no
biggie, I can put an arial up for those), PLUS something like 200 music
channels (those things that play a screen saver while playing music)
All for $70 a month (I have to pay $5 for my 2nd decoder connection, so
really it is $65 a month). So for $3 more than cable, I get more channels
that I can count.
Only downside... one channel per decoder, two decoders per dish for
normal setup (you can go as high as 8 or 9 with some Channel Plus
hardware). But that downside matters not to me... the lean-to I live in
doesn't make it easy to watch two diferent channels as is... 3 would be
sensory overload.
And the video quality of Satallite vs Cable isn't even a comparison. But
then, if you are a person that can't see the difference between VHS video
and DVD video, you probably won't care about that aspect.
-chris
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Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 11:58:54 GMT