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In Reply to: Cable or the Dish? posted by Merle on March 27, 2005 at 05:21:55:
How many HD/standard TV sets do you have in the house?Do you want to buy or lease your equipment?
Do your local stations offer HD, and how easily can you pick them all up?
What programming do you want to pay for, what are you not interested in? And how does your local cable company compare $$$ with the sat companies?
Can you maintain your own equipment, or want someone else to handle it?
I could go on, but you get the idea. We use cable because we have multiple SD sets, along with our one HD set in the house, so using distribution equipment doesn't cost extra. No up front equipment cost, just the monthly lease on the HD box, which would take years to break-even if I bought one instead (some dish companies may also do this). I can pick up all my local digital broadcaster via a stationary antenna, but not all have signed with the cable company. So I use a supplementary HD-OTA box and antenna. The sat receivers allow you to incorporate your local OTA into the main menu, cable receivers don't.
We were also a Direct TV customer for many years, with no problems. But every time a hurricane blew through, I had to climb on top of the chimney and take down the dish. The dish system was nice for the RV, "D" allowed me to temporarily switch my account from the home to the RV receiver, at no cost.
Check out the Hi-Def programming forum @AVSforum.com There are lots of options and opinions out there, one will be right for you.
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- Depends on your needs, location, tastes. - johnvb 17:10:51 03/27/05 (0)
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