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If launch successful, new service starts in April 2007

Oh why, oh why would Cable rely on such an un-reliable technology? Heck everyone knows that every time you get a drop of rain the picture goes out.

Oh please tell me you are being sarcastic, battleop

He actually has a good point. They (cable) are biggots they advertise so heavely about satellite dishes causing house fires, or that if you think it looks ugly now (the dish) wait till it rains or snows. When in all actualy cable gets about 75% (a guess) of its programing from a c-band satellite.

That IS funny that cable disses sat so bad, yet I know that they get all their programming (sans locals) from a collection of large sat dishes, as I've seen them at the Comcast office in my city, and common sense begs the question, how do you think a cable provider in Washington State gets all the feeds from the big networks that are all located on the East Coast, anyway?

Also, I've never seen DBS do this. Even with poor grounding! Oh, and I've never fallen asleep on a customer's couch, either!

I'm a DirecTV installer. Personally, if you are losing your picture due to precipitation, your dish isn't pointed accurately enough to begin with. A properly aimed dish will almost never lose signal enough for you to visually notice.

Worried about snow sticking to your dish? A good coat of WD-40 in November should get you through the winter without a hitch-er, pixellation!

I lose my signal on my DirecTV about once a year, usually when we have our infamous annual July hailstorm. Guess what? Comcast's signal degrades severely during this time as well.
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reply to RIRWIN1983

C-Band dish

DTV-Dish dishes

reply to battleop

said by battleop:

Oh why, oh why would Cable rely on such an un-reliable technology? Heck everyone knows that every time you get a drop of rain the picture goes out.

reply to fAcEtIOUs
There's nothing stopping you from using a 10 footer for DishNet or DirecTV, but the huge difference is C Band is around the 3.7ghz-4.2ghz band and the main band DishNet and Direct use is 12.2ghz-12.7ghz. One of the other reasons for the bigger dishes is due to the 2 degree satellite spacing.
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reply to digiblur
Thanks for clearing that up guys... it always amazes me how some people can speak so definitively about something they prove that they know nothing about with those same definitive words.

reply to PolarBear03
Well duh.

reply to digiblur
LOL Apparently I have to amend my post for you.

/sarcasm ON
Oh why, oh why would Cable rely on such an un-reliable technology? Heck everyone knows that every time you get a drop of rain the picture goes out.
/sarcasm OFF

I have and still use daily a 8 Foot dish with a 4DTV Receiver and some MPEG-2 Boxes.