  PolarBear The bear formerly known as aaron8301 Premium join:2005-01-03
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| reply to RIRWIN1983 Re: If launch successful, new service starts in April 2007
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. -- "I invented it, Bill made it famous." --David Bradley, the inventor of Ctrl+Alt+Del. |