POLL: Dish vs. Cable

[wolf]

Originally posted by blue58
Wolf, DAMN, you need to get out of that apartment, sounds almost like prison based on some of your posts.

It's an attractive prison, with a washer and dryer in the kitchen.

No laundromat is a big attraction.

[hot_pastrami]

We have DISH at our place... the prevous owner left their DISH rig on the roof, all aligned and everything. So we just called, got the PVR and receivers, and we were done. Now, instead of having 10 or so channels of crap, we have about 300 channels of crap! Wohoo!

*cough*

I like the idea of getting TV, phone, and Internet service all through one cable broadband connection (Comcast), but in practice there are too many issues.... most deplorable is Comcast's mysterious bandwidth limit. Another thing is that my brother has Comcast, and their tech support people have lied to him on a few occasions about outages and such.

What I'm hoping is that our city is a member of Utah's UTOPIA project, but so far I haven't found any indication one way or the other. Mmmmmm.... fiber to the curb.

[russotto]

I have good(?) old analog cable.

I've seen DirecTV, and the quality leaves a lot to be desired. Blocky artifacts suck.

[wolf]

Originally posted by hot_pastrami
Another thing is that my brother has Comcast, and their tech support people have lied to him on a few occasions about outages and such.

Service outage? What the heck's that?

(and yes, I have comcast. I think I had one outage ... lasted about 15 minutes. it was horrible).

[xoxoxoBruce]

Comcast goes out once in a great while. TV that is, internet is another matter. Once a week and some afternoons between 3 and six, it crawls.

[elSicomoro]

In 3 years, I've had one service interruption with Comcast--the second week I lived here. They came out and fixed it within 2 hours...on a Saturday.

[zippyt]

I've seen DirecTV, and the quality leaves a lot to be desired. Blocky artifacts suck.

That only happens when it rains WAY hard , and just for a few minets .
My dish DID freeze over a few years ago , I just took the dish its self from the mount and defrosted it , then sprayed a little pam on it ( i found this hint on a forum some where on the net ) , it hasn't frozen over since .
I didn't even have to realign it still have 98% signal !!!

[OnyxCougar]

Originally posted by Razorfish
[*]Cable box does not have a component video or audio hookup. This can be a bummer for some people.[*]Cox's service is not compatible with Tivo. This is probably a big bummer with some people here.[/list=1] [/b]

The Scientific Atlanta 3250HD box (offered in most Cox systems with HD capability) DOES have component input. The "regular" SA3250's do not. Usually, people with HDTV are the only ones who need the component inputs,

Yeah, Cox doesn't work with TiVo, mostly because they want you to use DVR, which is rolling out to all systems this year. (We're getting it next month, I'm on the beta team.) They don't have telephone out here until 1Q 2005, but I'm on the beta team for that, too.

And I'd like to comment, that most people I talk to in NC (my system) get pissed because they don't pay their bill and go to DBS, then come back as soon as they realize heavy cloudcover + dish = no picture. It rains in NC 285 days a year

[SteveDallas]

What part of NC are you in?? I don't remember it being THAT bad when I was growing up in the foothills. Anyway, YMMV. Our satellite signal has never gone out on the basis of cloud cover. During heavy rain, yes, and I mean really heavy. It maybe happened once or twice a year over a period of 5.5 years since we switched. Our cable service went out more often than that when we had it.