On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
My local cable killing Mars rover deployment in favor of local dog tag ordinances (as required by the city), made me realize it that getting my own dish is way overdue.
I would appreciate reports on any first hand experiences subscribers to this list have with satellite services. Yes, NASA TV and the SF channel is a must. :-)
I have the Dish Network (www.dishnetwork.com 1-800-333-dish). They don't have NASA, but do have SCI-FI, and National Empowerment Television (net.fcref.org), both C-spans, court-tv, several cnn/cnbc type channels. I am really happy with it. With their "better system" (dual lbnf) you can hang up to 4 receivers - which have to be their own, but the 5000 can get off-air and includes event timers and even caller-id! They also offer 6 channel HBO, multi cinemax, etc. I would take a look. The big dish would get most of the above, and NASA, but would cost more. I also looked at primestar/ussb/etc. Also lots of channels, but a different set. I like NET, and some of the channels only on dish, but you may prefer the channels other providers have --- reply to tzeruch - at - ceddec - dot - com ---