| Where ever you live this seems like a question | | | | maybe the dish specification and manufacture is |
| that generates a lot of interest. I've done a little | | | | different?]. This obviously can not happen to a |
| research and thought my answers maybe of | | | | cable user but there many other ways in which |
| interest to anyone prepared to read on. Personally | | | | cable transmission can be interrupted. |
| I have a cable TV installation at the moment but | | | | - Cable TV has it's supporters though. Installation |
| seriously considering moving to a satellite TV | | | | is simple and there is no ugly dish attached to |
| installation. | | | | your property. This assumes that a cable is |
| I live in the UK but many of the responses I have | | | | already installed in your neighbourhood. |
| seen have originated in the USA so don't stop | | | | - Cable providers frequently bundle or package |
| reading you guys in North America. On balance I | | | | other services which can help reduce your total |
| would say that more people preferred a Satellite | | | | costs for a computer network connection, |
| TV to a cable TV installation. If I had been asked | | | | telephone service and TV. |
| 5 or 10 years ago then I may still have answered | | | | North America has had many cable networks for |
| cable TV but for very different reasons. I really | | | | many years so the 2 players in the satellite TV |
| believed that combining TV and other services | | | | services are providing some great promotions at |
| into a cable would be everyone's answer but in | | | | the moment. Many companies are providing FREE |
| practice satellite TV providers have moved more | | | | equipment and installation packages in return for |
| quickly to provide what the customer wants. | | | | an ongoing subscription. Ironically Free SAT has |
| There have been so many advances in | | | | just been launched in the UK which means you |
| technology that we seem to have far more | | | | get 200+ channels for the one-time purchase |
| choices than could been foreseen just a few | | | | price of a Free SAT box and installation of a |
| years ago. | | | | satellite dish (if you don't already possess one). |
| Some of the key points I have identified in my | | | | There is no on-going subscription with Free SAT. |
| research are:- | | | | We also have SKY TV a regular subscription |
| - Satellite TV is an uninterrupted digital signal the | | | | service with the premier channels (i.e. top sports |
| only cable used in the connection is from the dish | | | | events and most recent movies). |
| to your set. This, I understand, is why the quality | | | | The next choice to be confronted with will be IP |
| of picture via a satellite transmission is regarded, | | | | television this is television delivered via your |
| by many, to be better than cable transmission. | | | | computer network. Ironically this is perhaps why I |
| - Satellite TV is prone to signal loss during heavy | | | | thought cable meaning a cable into your property |
| storms. This is information I have gathered from | | | | rather than cable TV would have been naturally |
| US users rather than here in the UK. Equally I | | | | ahead of satellite TV. |
| read somewhere that to spray PAM on the dish | | | | Time and the television watching public will reveal |
| every 3 months or so works wonders (if it is | | | | how we receive our visual images in the future. |
| safe to access of course). The PAM treatment is | | | | My vote for the moment is for a satellite TV |
| a non stick coating which prevents rain sticking to | | | | installation. |
| the dish. [Do we have non stick rain in the UK or | | | | |