Thanks for the feedback. I'm lucky to have just discovered in my local city a dealer with decades of satellite TV experience who also specializes in receiving foreign stations. I will be taking a trip to his shop to take advantage of his knowledge and products available. And he has lots of equipment/dishes set up so I can see how it performs before choosing.
I plan to keep my conventional cable for now with the usual channels and (too much) sports! With a combo package of phone, Internet, TV, my monthly fee is about $60 plus tax for the TV portion which includes extras like HBO and other quality movie channels. So I am only interested in FTA; I don't want any more monthly subscriptions. It would be nice to find Japanese language programming which can't be purchased for any price in eastern Canada; nobody offers TV Japan! It used to be FTA on Galaxy 13/Horizons 1 on C-band but is now encrypted. And that sat at <10 degs is too low for me from this location. My strategy will be to get the biggest motorized Ku-band dish I can manage with a flexible receiver (hopefully PVR too) and leave C-band alone. I have lots of tree cover that has appeared this spring in my yard so any dish will likely need to be on the house roof and an exact spot carefully chosen to maximize exposure to all directions. Murray
