Satellite vs. Cable
We are waiting to take delivery of our FW Reflection 303 by Grand Design. As this is our first RV we have been slowly outfitting and this came up as one of the questions.
Forum Discussion
If you enjoy having TV when you travel, you need a satellite system. Like others have said, there are many parks with cable TV, ranging from exceptional to the only channels available are the 24 hour snowstorm channel. The easiest setup will be a carryout satellite antenna and some coax cable. Use your receiver from home and the only thing you will be missing are network channels when you are outside the spotbeam. You can upgrade that to an RV package that will get you east and west coast feeds for the networks. Something else to consider is eventually many of the cable TV companies are migrating all their services to scrambled, digital feeds. This will require the RV parks that provide cable TV to either spend a lot of money upgrading their system to decode the signals and then mix and re-broadcast them, or have a system where you will need to check out a cable box and return it when you leave. If they chose the first option, fine. The Cable box method can be a PITA.
