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Name: Justin Weber
Hi all,
This week's poll question is about how you receive your TV signal. Discuss here what you think about various mediums of TV transfer, and, if you like, the poll results themselves.
Thanks!
Justin
I've used all flavors over the years. From the 'free' analog signals to cable to satellite.
I prefer satellite and have been using it exclusively for quite a few years now. I like that I can, and have, move great distances and all I have to do is set my antenna up and point it in the right direction and, voila! I have reception.
I like that I can have channels from all over north america...........right from the east to the west coast. Both Canadian and US channels (you poor folks in the US, it's too bad you can't get Canadian TV, our gov't lets us decide what our kids can and can't watch. This means most shows aren't edited and bleeped like you get in the non HBO channels in the US. I'll never forget my wife's look of amazement (she's from the US) the first time she watched an old episode of her favorite TV show - 'Sex in the City' and saw nudity that she'd never seen on US channels)
I also like that my guide allows me to view info on the shows. Something I've never seen basic cable do.
Anyhow, I've got satellite and I'll be sticking with it.
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I've had cable for many years of my life, but realized TV was not really important enough to me that I wanted to keep paying the monthly bill. Free over-the-air with time-shifting by recording provides plenty of crap for the, at most, 2 hours a day of TV I watch. Cable and satellite do give you a lot more channels to chose from, but it's usually just more channels of the same kind of crap anyway, 35 minutes of content and 25 minutes of commercials for every hour. I'll just rent/buy DVD of something I really want to watch, no commercials that way either (and paid for by the money I don't send to the cable or satellite company). With the new over-the-air broadcast now in DTV and HDTV, the sound and picture quality is just as good, if not better, than the best cable and satellite I've seen.
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I'm still trying to figure out if I like TV...
I have cable run to a total of 7 TV's in my house, including the garage and my workshop. Only the main TV in the living room has an HDTV cable box, the others are just basic cable.
In addition, I have basic cable run to a TV card in the computer in my home office. I'm watching the NBA on ESPN as I type.
I have a 2 cable jacks on my deck, one for the upper portion and one that makes it easier to put the portable TV on the picnic table that's on the lawn, one story down from the main deck.
In my workplace office, we have a TV card that is attached to a cable that delivers our corporate TV station as well as a few news stations. The signal is brought to the building by satellite, then distributed to each PC through a server. I have hooked up a set of rabbit ears to my system so I can pick up the 5 local over-the-air stations.
All I can say about cable vs. satellite vs. over-the-air is that I can watch cable and OTA 24-7, but the satellite signal either gets poor or goes out completely during inclement weather. Since I live in a fairly rainy area, I can't imagine that I would be satisfied with satellite service in my home if it went out whenever it rained.
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P.S. The poll should allow for more than one selection. Since I have cable, satellite and over-the air reception, I would have to respond 3 times.
Wouldn't 1 person answering 3 times skew the results?
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Using Bell TV (satellite). Pretty good for the most part, although sometimes 1080i content gets a little blocky during the high-action scenes. MPEG-2 sucks...
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I hate TV, from profanity to nudity, it makes me sick. There are no
morals anymore. The internet isn't much better but that depends on
where you go online and what you do.
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Pretty good for the most part, although sometimes 1080i content gets a little blocky during the high-action scenes. MPEG-2 sucks...
That's likely caused by the refresh rate being low on your TV. I know on ours I see this from time to time too and that's what it is on my set.
TV is what it is. Luckily, those that aren't into it can leave theirs shut off or never buy one.
I don't drink or party and haven't in 20 years. My wife rarely touches a drop either. Neither of us are much into people (I'd rather hang with my dogs than most people!). We like them well enough, but in small controlled doses......lol.....so we tend to watch a lot of movies (have a nice collection of DVD's) and have a couple favorite TV shows. It's our main recreation during the long cold Candian winter. Or at least "main" to the tune of maybe 2 hours a night. I still would rather read the book than watch the movie (although I'll do both right....lol)
My actual TV viewing interests tend to run to, the Military channel, History channel, and pretty much all the science channels I can get.
During the summer, we rarely watch TV. We're too busy out taking long walks, doing yard work, fishing, camping etc etc.
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Satelite all the way for me: I got it in december, replaced my 4 channels through antenna (+1 with snowy reception). Think the dish on my apartment block might be misaligned, as I get bad reception on certain channels (luckily not the ones I want to watch though).
Oh, and to Rayburn above: pretty much all the TV I watch contains profanity or nudity, so I can't argue with you!
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I currently have directv. Hated it at first. It seemed if the wind blew we would loose signal. A slight rain and we would loose signal. Finally I got mad and went to cable for tv internet and phone for those "Bundled Savings". I should have read all the fine print. After three months the price almost doubled without notice. Congress or whoever agreed to a rate increase! Three months later all the channels they through in for free to hook me became no longer free and the price jump was again substancial. Then I got laid off. Started looking at what I was paying versus what I had paid in the past. After the two increases I was then paying $105.00 more per month than I was with sattelite, dsl and the local phone company so back we went. When the tech came out to install the new boxes for the system I explained the problems we had had in the past. Don't know what he did but we rarely loose reception now. So I am staying with directv. I get a lot more channels for a little more than half the cost of a lot less channels on cable.
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Hi, using satellite because the dish came with the abode. Truth be told, don't need double-digit choices of obscure niche channels.
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