Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 08 Jan 2009 05:49:12a, George Shirley told us...
>
>> Janet Wilder wrote:
>>> Harry Buskin wrote:
>>>> I don't know how to make this any easier.
>>>>
>>>> 1. I have satellite. I will stay with satellite.
>>>>
>>>> 2. My local channels are provided with my sat. subscription.
>>>>
>>>> 3. I am NOT concerned with the technical details of
>>>> the digital transition.
>>>>
>>>> 4. I want to know which (DirectTV or DishNetwork) is
>>>> better in terms of food programming.
>>> They both carry pretty much the same. See my previous post with their
>>> web sites. They have their programming on their web sites.
>>>
>>> Dish, IMO, has better technology and better support.
>> We just switched to Dish yesterday, from DirecTV, and I have to agree
>> with Janet's answer. I am very impressed with Dish and we had DirecTV
>> for eleven years. Getting better, stronger, signal from the satellite.
>> The picture is very much more clear and defined than the one from
>> DirecTV. So much so it amazed us because we had thought we were getting
>> a good picture before.
>>
>> No local channels for us because the local stations are disputing with
>> the satellite providers over cost. I bought an antenna that attaches to
>> the dish and pipes the local channels through the satellite receiver and
>> that puts them on the guide and makes it easier to control.
>>
>
> I'm much happier with cable in our area. Everything is fiber optic right
> up to the cable box. Picture is much clearer and more consistent than any
> satellite I've seen locally, and it's cheaper.
>
Cable sure isn't cheaper here Wayne. That's one of the reasons we
switched to satellite eleven years ago. Damned cable companies kept
going up on price and cutting the number of channels on basic.

We had fiber optic cable in Saudi Arabia twenty-three years ago along
with fiber optic telephones, burglar and fire alarms. Advantage to
moving into the 20th century over there, you get to get the latest
stuff. Canadian Bell made billions of dollars installing all that glass.

AT&T says they will get around to it one of these days. Hah!