Comment Get a Dish! (Score 1) 126
I bought a dish and receiver (RCA, first generation) back in 95, paying the early adopter price and everything. I bought my second set this year (Sony, third generation) and I'm still going strong. From DirecTV, for $29.95 you get essentially 70 cable channels, plus all the pay-per-view options. For ten or fifteen bucks more you can get all the STARZ! and Encore channels, but I haven't had them in a couple years and haven't missed them. You can also pay ten bucks a month and get every regional sports network, so if you're into, say, college lacrosse or minor league hockey that can be fun. DirecTV is also in the process of buying USSB, which should mean that soon all the HBO and Showtime channels should be available on the same bill, instead of two.
The problem is, you can't get your local channels, or now (due to the FCC) even the network feeds, unless you really do live out in the honest-to-goodness middle of nowhere. Oh, and you have to buy the dish, but that's about two hundred bucks now, and the quality is far superior to anything you can get on broadcast or cable.
Oh, and my mom popped for Digital Cable at home (she's got TCI) and I can safely say that DirecTV is still a far better product. Better reception, faster tuning to different channels, and better system controls.
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The problem is, you can't get your local channels, or now (due to the FCC) even the network feeds, unless you really do live out in the honest-to-goodness middle of nowhere. Oh, and you have to buy the dish, but that's about two hundred bucks now, and the quality is far superior to anything you can get on broadcast or cable.
Oh, and my mom popped for Digital Cable at home (she's got TCI) and I can safely say that DirecTV is still a far better product. Better reception, faster tuning to different channels, and better system controls.
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