Damn, I feel bad for you man...sat. goes out more often in wind and cloud cover...but it's not too awful bad...don't have phone and modem through it, all separate...don't even need a house phone, having a cell and all...all told, probably spend about $130 a mo. for sat., DSL and land line...XM/Sirius comes as part of the pkge...
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Friday, June 12, 2009 11:25:57 PM)| |  | guidogodoy wrote: | | I have three satellites here. No joke. Moved in and already had DirectTV and one of those MASSIVE old school sats on the front lawn. I got DishNetwork. I live in the "country" meaning that I am across the street from the city where cable / public water / sewage stops. Bundled with XM, the phone and DSL through the phone, I pay $160 / month for BASIC service on all.
I have to freakin' lease my modem / router! It cheeses me off to no end. I could have bought one of these cheap pieces 'o crap 10x over by now.
Still have only one room with a real TV and, get this, have to open the window to pick up XM as the sat signal doesn't work through an argon gas filled window. Good thing it doesn't work either when it is raining or the inside of the house would get wet.
| | | ronhartsell wrote: | | I've got HD in the living room and each of the 4 bdrms have their own...that's 5 rms and are all independant of eachother...pay about $65 mo. and all come off 1 huge stlgt...
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | I'm not so sure about price. Remember the old commercial about having more than one room hooked up? "With Sat., you can have the same channel in your living room, bedroom, office..." Yup, all true. I only have one room hooked up with Sat because it costs too much to do any more. Ran the antenna to all the other rooms where I would like to watch a little tv. Now I have to route all those hookups through the digital decoder box and run downstairs to change the channel! LOL!!
Were I able to get cable, I'd do it in a heartbeat and hook up every room in the house!
| | | spapad wrote: | | No need to blame Calvin! Although I would probably blame Lucy for the same, but not interference of signal as much as evacuating a room!
Digital Sat. hates storms, hates snow, but it is probably better than the outrageous amount of money I pay for COMCAST BASTARDS a month.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | You anticipated my only comment. The damn weather. Whereas before I could still pull in the locals when my sat. went out, now I lose ALL tv when it gets windy / rainy, etc.
That really sux! One of the only reasons I still have the old analog hookup complete with antenna rotator and all. While a better image, I would prefer to have the old signal as it wouldn't go out as the current one does with all the storms we get. I now lose all signals with a strong fart. CALVIN!!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | So...today was the" big transition" from analog to digital signals for TVs. Any thoughts on the new DTV signal? This Stanley Cup final was the first game (and first TV program in general) I ever saw with this new signal. My TV, antenna, and converter box were ready for this day. After watching the game and watching not only the game, but the behavior of the TV in general, I came up with a verdict: better than I expected! The images were crystal clear, as if I had cable and not the basic local channels. I could see the puck and the faces of the players much better than with the old analog signal, which was fuzzy at best. The only gripe I have is that the signal was very sensitive to changes in the weather. It was pretty windy outside when the game was entering its second period, and the signal would get messed up, freezing the image for a few seconds. Other than that, I think it's a change for the better. |
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