Re: When Will Directv add more channels?

Forgot to tell you had a 12ft dish and  still have a  8 ft one in the
basemen  along with a lot of eq.( want to buy a 650gi). with all the  stuff
you now need  to use  c band or ku its a big pain . Also really not all that
much you can see for  free anymore.

Martin Poles

"4dtvman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Dr. Personality" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 4dtvman
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > "martyp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > > Its true what you say  about the big dish, But you forgot to say you
cant
> > > > see what you want on a different TV in the same house. I pay about
100 a
> > > > month for  all channels on 4 TVs in the house .
> > >
> > > Well, I guess everyone has their own priorities. As a single guy, I
> > > don't need 3 or 4 TVs hooked up in the house. Whenever someone from
> > > Directv or Dish Network calls me and tries to push their little dish
> > > on me, I always make a point of questioning them about their missing
> > > HBOs, Cinemaxes, and Showtimes (hey, the big dish gives me all of
> > > them, why can't they?), and then I let them know I'm not ready to
> > > downgrade to cable-on-a-stick yet!
> >
> >
> > You have to keep in mind that, in many areas, the big dishes are just
> > not allowed.  The FCC exemption doesn't cover dishes more than a meter
> > in diameter (two meters in Alaska).  Also, I don't know where I'd put
> > the thing.  My front yard is a postage stamp, and my wife would prefer
> > to use the back yard for gardening and letting the dogs run around and
> > so on.  There are plenty of valid reasons not to get a big dish, and
> > the DSS dish is a wonderful compromise.  Besides, one of the best
> > values for my entertainment dollar these days is watching the cable
> > industry unravel.  Locally, here, Adelphia has dropped the Weather
> > Channel in favor of some ad thing, and people are up in arms.  There's
> > (probably) no truth to the rumor that Adelphia is going to win
> > December's DirecTV Dealer of the Month Award because of this.
> >
> > I don't get all the HBOs with DTV, but those other channels just repeat
> > the ones I do get.  No problem, as seen from here.
>
> I didn't mean to imply that I thought everyone should get a big dish.
> It's definitely NOT for everyone. In fact, if you do not already have
> one in good working condition, I would recommend that you not get one.
> My point was that I already have one (got it in 1992 and it has long
> been paid for) so I see no need to switch to the small dish until one
> of the things that I listed previously in this thread happens. The big
> dish has more of the channels I want and they are a lot cheaper.
>
> Now, when the time comes that I am forced to part with my big dish
> (for whatever reason), I will definitely choose the small dish over
> cable. If you think your cable company is bad, you need to check out
> Tele-Media, the cable company we're stuck with where I live. Within a
> 100 mile radius, they are by far the most expensive and provide the
> least amount of channels. The counties all around me are lucky enough
> to have Comcast. Tele-Media is stuck in the mid-1980's and they are
> happy to be there. They advertise HBO as if it's something brand new!
> They do not yet even offer fairly common channels like Fox News, F/X,
> E!, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, C-Span 2,
> AMC, Turner Classic Movies, History Channel, HGTV, TV Food Network,
> Travel Channel, TV Land, and Court TV.  They are getting ready to
> offer "high speed" internet but want to charge $40 per month for 256K
> download speeds and $73 per month for 1 meg download speeds. It's no
> wonder that just about every other household in my town has some kind
> of dish (big or small).