Dish or Directv - Best satellite to purchase
Looking to purchase a satellite system for my new class A which came only with the standard crank-up antenna and booster. Looking for suggestions as to which provider is best Dish or Directv and which...
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RoyB wrote:donn0128 wrote:
We have only had Direct and up until their being bought out by ATT I would have said I liked Direct better.
I was going to put in a comment about DirecTv and ATT now offering SAT TV over the internet - No dish required...
Haven't really heard anything bad about this yet but maybe there is a hitch other than lots of data required to watch SAT TV over the internet...
This idea kinda appeals to me to be able to do this...
We dropped SAT TV when the National Broadcast folks came out with the Digital OTA TV in 2009 I think it was... being doing the local HDTV signals from the local towns using the BATWING antenna ever since then... When we had Directv we could only get standard mode broadcast quality from them but it was neat to bring along a portable dish setup and a SAT RCVR from the home account and watch DirecTV SAT TV all over everywhere we was at......
Roy Ken
This is probably fine on the East coast, but come out West and some of our best camping places are in the mountains and in other locations where you aren't going to get an over the air signal. That is unless you speak Spanish. For some reason you can always find a Spanish language station over the air no matter where you are. So if you want TV out here, you pretty much need Satellite.
