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.
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I was using SAT at home back then and it was a win-win to just pull a SAT RCVR from the bedroom and take on trips. This was all before HIGH DEF TV so all of the TV signals were the same whether on CABLE or SAT TV.
Then the digital high def NATL BROADCAST came on the scene with good high def signals from the local towns. After seeing the quality of this I stopped bringing along my SAT TV stuff from the house.
We get pretty good high DEF TV signals here on the East side of the USA just about everywhere we go. Even when we hookup at a camp ground we would really rather use the OTA BATWING antenna to pick up the local NATL BROADCAST station from the local town as they were always in high def mode. HDTV better to watch than standard Tv for us.
For those cable stations like CNN TWC and the bunch of movie channels we like to still watch we will downstream them from the internet. Most of our TV is NATL TV BROADCAST stations however from the local towns...
Of course downstreaming from the internet requires alot of GB DATAPLAN with your internet provider.
For us the NATL BROADCAST using the oTA BATWING antenna ended up being the way was the way to go and it is free to the public...
Getting HIGH DEF TV signals from the SAT folks seemed pretty expensive for us on our budget. We also found out real quick having the SAT DISH portable allowed you to park under the shade trees in the camp grounds and place the SAT DISH outside with a clear view of the southern skies.
Roy Ken
Then the digital high def NATL BROADCAST came on the scene with good high def signals from the local towns. After seeing the quality of this I stopped bringing along my SAT TV stuff from the house.
We get pretty good high DEF TV signals here on the East side of the USA just about everywhere we go. Even when we hookup at a camp ground we would really rather use the OTA BATWING antenna to pick up the local NATL BROADCAST station from the local town as they were always in high def mode. HDTV better to watch than standard Tv for us.
For those cable stations like CNN TWC and the bunch of movie channels we like to still watch we will downstream them from the internet. Most of our TV is NATL TV BROADCAST stations however from the local towns...
Of course downstreaming from the internet requires alot of GB DATAPLAN with your internet provider.
For us the NATL BROADCAST using the oTA BATWING antenna ended up being the way was the way to go and it is free to the public...
Getting HIGH DEF TV signals from the SAT folks seemed pretty expensive for us on our budget. We also found out real quick having the SAT DISH portable allowed you to park under the shade trees in the camp grounds and place the SAT DISH outside with a clear view of the southern skies.
Roy Ken
