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This is driving me nuts...

I go to watch TV, and every other commercial is on how satalite TV sucks and digital cable rules and vice-versa, how each side is trying to screw-over the consumers, and so-on and so-forth.

I personally have digital cable...but I've also used satalite, and I don't see a difference.

Let's see if we can put this to rest. What do you guys use?

Free view, some digi box with a few good channels but the siganls shitty on a few channels

What about just normal Terrestrial TV?

I voted Satellite btw

I had cable, but they kept overcharging so I switched to satellite

Cable. Satellite sucks.. well, the satellite we use here anyway. When it gets really really cloudy (usually does), the livefeed tends to be crappy.

And why is there not a "both" option?

Sattelite. Where I'm at there is only 1 cable company so they jack the prices way up.
I have 2 sets of premium channels plus the full digital cable line up for what it would cost for basic cable with my sattelite provider.

Cable, We get our phone line and internet (2mb) from the same company. I'd say what it was but I don't want to breach copyright

NTL

I have regular cable (i.e. not digital) but I don't watch TV anyways.

Time Warner Cable. It is about $53/month.

Satellite sucks here in Los angeles.. it is terrible and more expensive.. not to mention less channels.

Cable, We get our phone line and internet (2mb) from the same company. I'd say what it was but I don't want to breach copyright

NTL

Same here, only we get 1mb.

Cable internet sucks here too.. it is on a shared connection. Eh.. no thanks.

I have 3.0MBPS DSL internet provided with my phone.. my DSL is $24.99/monthly. This is cheaper then cable internet.

What about Freeview?

had both, satellite has vastly better uptime and stable price.

I only ever watch Top Gear and University Challenge, so it's not really an issue.

I voted Satalite. With Digital cable you get pretty much the same channels but satalite gives you the channel in multiple time zones. You can watch the new Family Guy three hours before anyone else will and spoil it for them :).

EDIT:Also satalite should be way easier to steal.

This is driving me nuts...

I go to watch TV, and every other commercial is on how satalite TV sucks and digital cable rules and vice-versa, how each side is trying to screw-over the consumers, and so-on and so-forth.

I personally have digital cable...but I've also used satalite, and I don't see a difference.

Let's see if we can put this to rest. What do you guys use?

If you read more books instead of watching so much TV, you might know how to spell satellite. :rolleyes:

Well, if you want a good isp, cable is the way to go, but Digital Cable sucks. Thats what I have, because I wanted the good internet connection, but it loses signal just as much as sattelite. Plus most sattelite companys offer dvr, which is almost to good to live without!

Sat 150 channels own

Sat 150 channels own

If you're British, I'd say satellite is best - up to 999 channels.

I put cable, only because i've never had satellite. The commercials remind me of coke vs. pepsi and political mud slinging. In the end, i think both end up looking bad. I'm thinking of going TVo just to avoid commercials all together....

If you're British, I'd say satellite is best - up to 999 channels.

not all of them you can get and about 20 are radio

not all of them you can get and about 20 are radio
Which is why I said "up to."

Terrestrial, I live in a cardboard box in china and just manage to maintain a half-decent terestrial signal with my old tin-foil i steal from people's houses at night. All the fools who've been devoured by the corporate dictatorship brainwasher of digital and satelight, when you can get 1 good signal on terestrial arial connected to a TV with no change channle button and the volume stuck very high, also did I mention there's only one speaker?

If I am (un)lucky I can get one or two Terrestrial channels with an antenna and signal amplifier - so I don't even try. I'm damn-sure not going to pay $30-$80 US/mo for common TV crap. If I want to watch something, I'll rent it or check it out from the library (A&E/History Channel/etc...)

Besides, I'm on NS too much to watch the tube (my computer screen is bigger than my TV).

If I am (un)lucky I can get one or two Terrestrial channels with an antenna and signal amplifier - so I don't even try. I'm damn-sure not going to pay $30-$80 US/mo for common TV crap. If I want to watch something, I'll rent it or check it out from the library (A&E/History Channel/etc...)

Besides, I'm on NS too much to watch the tube (my computer screen is bigger than my TV).

I sympathize with you.. I pay over $50 for cable TV.. I can't get satellite in my apartment (the management doesn't allow it.. too many individual apartments (like a dorm). Unfortunately Time Warner is all I can get.

And I still don't have my Logo channel!

i live in the middle of no where so i have to have satellite. without it i could get 3 stations by antenna but they wouldnt come in well. i like my sat. but i dont think id like it if i didnt live in the desert, it goes out when it rains hard. i found cable to be much more reliable

Digital Cable for me...

Also used to go for Cable Internet, but now have a CavTel 10Mbps ADSL2 line (which is far more than Comcast [our local cable provider] can provide) [not to mention having 1Mbps UPSTREAM!]....