Satellite provider recommendation 4 FT
About to switch to Usung Satellite system. We have joined the FT Community and planning full mobility (East to West and South to North). We are interested about who are the providers of satellite HDTV...
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Everyone has their own preference, but we've been through the gauntlet with paid television programming. We lived in town and were able to have cable. But camping we used only over-the-air.
Later, we moved to the country and there is absolutely no cable where we are. That left us with the satellite options. We tried DirectTV first, since the previous owner of this house had DirectTV. This worked quite well for a few years, but we had a constant battle with DirectTV to keep our prices at an affordable level. They constantly raised prices, and it seems the programming was just the same re-run after re-run.
We ended up switch to DishTV. Was great at first. We also bought another stand alone dish for the camper and used one of the receivers in the house for the camper. We just moved it back and forth. Later, we got the Tailgater dish, which sets itself. This was GREAT! No manual point the dish on a tripod any longer and getting hit-and-miss. But it also meant, no parking under trees. About 1/2 of the camp grounds we went to, had trees and found out DishTV in the camper simply would not work. We reverted back to over-the-air in those situations. Still, when we had clear SW skies, it worked great! So we had the best, for both house and camper.
Move forward a bit. Same thing happened with DishTV. After a while, prices started creeping up again! and up, and up, and up! And the programming as re-run after re-run after re-run. Even at home, we found ourselves watching over-the-air television more than DishTV. We finally had the Ah-Ha moment, that we no longer needed DishTV.
I had to some new re-routing of wires in the house, and ended up getting a 50 year old antenna put up on my house that pulls in every conceivable HD signal in my area now (with no boosters), and in the camper we use just over-the-air.
Since the switch, we've saved a considerable amount of money, over $100 a month, over $1200 a year, over $12000 in 10 years! And we don't miss the re-run programming. We also found Netflix and HULU carry the same re-runs for all those paid programs. And since we've not seen the latest shows, the programming on Netflix and HULU are all new for us now! It might be 2 years old, but new for us!
We will probably never go back to paid television.
There again, each one does it their own way. But those are the two major contenders: DirectTV and DishTV vs Over-the-air.
Later, we moved to the country and there is absolutely no cable where we are. That left us with the satellite options. We tried DirectTV first, since the previous owner of this house had DirectTV. This worked quite well for a few years, but we had a constant battle with DirectTV to keep our prices at an affordable level. They constantly raised prices, and it seems the programming was just the same re-run after re-run.
We ended up switch to DishTV. Was great at first. We also bought another stand alone dish for the camper and used one of the receivers in the house for the camper. We just moved it back and forth. Later, we got the Tailgater dish, which sets itself. This was GREAT! No manual point the dish on a tripod any longer and getting hit-and-miss. But it also meant, no parking under trees. About 1/2 of the camp grounds we went to, had trees and found out DishTV in the camper simply would not work. We reverted back to over-the-air in those situations. Still, when we had clear SW skies, it worked great! So we had the best, for both house and camper.
Move forward a bit. Same thing happened with DishTV. After a while, prices started creeping up again! and up, and up, and up! And the programming as re-run after re-run after re-run. Even at home, we found ourselves watching over-the-air television more than DishTV. We finally had the Ah-Ha moment, that we no longer needed DishTV.
I had to some new re-routing of wires in the house, and ended up getting a 50 year old antenna put up on my house that pulls in every conceivable HD signal in my area now (with no boosters), and in the camper we use just over-the-air.
Since the switch, we've saved a considerable amount of money, over $100 a month, over $1200 a year, over $12000 in 10 years! And we don't miss the re-run programming. We also found Netflix and HULU carry the same re-runs for all those paid programs. And since we've not seen the latest shows, the programming on Netflix and HULU are all new for us now! It might be 2 years old, but new for us!
We will probably never go back to paid television.
There again, each one does it their own way. But those are the two major contenders: DirectTV and DishTV vs Over-the-air.
