No, they sit in the yard and you can camouflage them with plants, they
only need enough free space above to focus on that satellite,
therefore you are not free to choose the spot.
Marta
On Aug 21, 2009, at 22:36 pm, Andy Arnold wrote:
Good ideas. Do you have to have a dish hanging off your house to get
Dish and the others? I think they are banned in my neighborhood!
On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Robert Kersting wrote:
IIRC, DirecTV and Dish offer hundreds of digital channels at no extra
charge. Cheaper than Insight, better support and it's cheaper. Yes,
you get all the local stuff too.
I'm really amazed more people don't take this route. Sure, your
internet access may go up a bit but it's a small price to pay.
Step two would be to call Insight and tell them you're discontinuing
your cable TV in favor of a satellite dish. I'll bet they'll come up
with some special pricing to keep you on board.
Just some thoughts.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Andy Arnold<[email protected]>
wrote:
Any cable TV experts in the group?
I can't figure this whole racket out... I have a couple HD TVs
with built-in
tuners... Insight wants $15 per month for their DVR which is
supposed to
carry many more HD channels than if I plug the cable wire directly
into the
HD TV. But this is a crude solution for many reasons (one of which
is that
you can't sync the boxes) Plus I don't watch that much TV, so $30
a month
just for the box is crazy. I had heard that some TVs can contain a
cable
decoder card that will allow the signal from all of Insight's
channels to
come thru in HD. But now most manufacturers have abandoned that
strategy
because all TVs have a digital tuner built-in and if your cable
company is
outputting unscrambled channels then you can tune all the stations
through
the TV without a cable box or CableCard. Is the problem that
Insight is
behind the national curve and still scrambling most of their
stations? Stop
the madness! Would love to hear what others are doing about all of
this...
BTW, this is still a Mac topic because I have an AppleTV thrown
into the mix
as well :-)
thanks
Andy
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