Direct TV uses a totally different bird than the cable satellites. Is
KU signal too (digital) versus analog C band used by cable companies.
That's what cracks me up about "digital" cable -- is the same old
analog signal it's always been until it hits that first node.
Bill Robertson
#5939
>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxx> wrote:
> I have had Direct TV for almost 10 years now, as long as you have a
> clean view to the sky and have your dish positioned correctly you will
> loose the signal during real bad storms only.
>
> Satellite is better than cable because cable takes the signal off the
> satellite, breaks it down and pumps it through a cable into your home,
> satellite removes the middle man that cable uses because all of our
> signal comes directly from the satellite not a cable station that got
> it off a satellite.
>
> Mark V
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 21, 2004, at 09:03 PM, Farrar Hudkins wrote:
>
> > Hmm, thanks for that tip -- my mother was trying to get me to
switch to
> > satellite TV the other day. She told me how wonderful it was. Now
I can
> > present her an opposing opinion. :D
> >
> > --Farrar
> >
> > frvianna wrote:
> >> be on, the stupid satellite was "searching for signal". I hate
> >> satelitte, why did we ever switch cable to satellite? Mine never
> >> works :(
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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