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commodore 01000000
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Posted: 15th Dec 2009 11:39
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Will satellite tv replace terrestrial and cable?

Merry Xmas everyone ^^
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Indicium
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It depends, if companies like Virgin go bust ( UK this is ) then i imagine Sky would dominate the market, which would mean satilite would replace other methods of delivering tv signals, otherwise, who knows?
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JLMoondog
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Time Warner is running a monopoly where I live, so probably not.


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Neuro Fuzzy
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Didn't cable kinda replace satellite TV?

Cable is waaay more popular than Satellite. With cable, you don't have to worry about satellites' positions, what's going on with the clouds, or about a dish on your roof. That's not to say that cable is 100% reliable, but it's a lot better.

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Indicium
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Oh "/ i didn't know that, i thought satellite was preferred
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commodore 01000000
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Posted: 16th Dec 2009 16:50 Edited at: 16th Dec 2009 18:50
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Quote: " Didn't cable kinda replace satellite TV? "

???? I thought more people had satellite

Quote: "Cable is waaay more popular than Satellite"

again this is news to me.

With cable, you don't have to worry about satellites' positions,
Quote: "Depends who installs it if you get it installed professionally you don't have to worry about it"


Quote: "what's going on with the clouds"

Sorry but you must have either a very small or unreliable satellite dish. never heard of the signal being affected by coulds, heavy rainfall maybe.

Quote: "or about a dish on your roof. "

most of them i have seen are attached to walls

Quote: "That's not to say that cable is 100% reliable, but it's a lot better."

When I had it it used to crash all the time

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demons breath
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Posted: 16th Dec 2009 23:16
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I don't think satellite's as popular as it was - I'd say cable's more popular from my experience as well, but either way it's taken a huge chunk out of what even a handful of years ago was a reasonably satellite dominated market.

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Grog Grueslayer
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Where I'm at the local cable company was so bad with service and customer support they had to change their company name. They only did it to fool people into thinking it was a different cable company. People that canceled with the old company name would order the same horrible service again unknowingly. Most people around here are either using The Dish or DirectTV.

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Dazzag
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It depends where you live. Most people here saying satallite has a bigger market than cable are in the UK. The other way round they are probably (can't tell from Cyberspace) in the US. In the UK terrestrial (does Freeview count?) probably still has a very large percentage of the market.

It doesn't matter anyways, give it a few years and everything will be online. My whole TV setup in Cyrus was like this (very nice and small TV tuner box thingy that plugged into router from TV company) and things like BBC's iPlayer work very well at the minute even on big screens (eg. using a PS3).

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BearCDP
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Posted: 17th Dec 2009 12:57 Edited at: 17th Dec 2009 12:57
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In the Southwest U.S., Cox Communications is one of the bigger TV providers, and they're straight cable. We used to have Dish Network, but the reliability was highly dependent upon the weather, and while the weather in Arizona doesn't change much it really sucked when monsoon season hit in the summer.

Cox also has more HD channels than Dish, so that coupled with a discount on bundled phone, broadband, and cable TV service was our reason for switching. Their customer service is horrible, but bother them enough about a problem with the neighborhood cable or internet and they'll usually get a van out there to fix it before too long.

DirectTV always struck me as the sports-fanatic's TV provider, that's why we haven't looked at it much.


I think any satelite TV company that wants to overtake cable needs to ensure their service is highly reliable, especially with HD broadcasting. Of course, I can't speak for any companies outside my area, but Dish and DirectTV (in Arizona at least) are certainly nowhere near that point.

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scutheotaku
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Satellite's cheaper, so I'd rather have that - but I'm stuck with cable, because to get a dish set up I have to cut down half the trees in my yard...My cable company's pretty good though, a lot better than Comcast (duh duh duuuuh).

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Zappo
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The figures released by Ofcom yesterday are as follows for the main television in households:

UK
12% - Analogue terrestrial
13% - Digital cable
36% - Digital satellite
38% - Digital terrestrial (e.g. Freeview)

USA
3% - Analogue terrestrial
10% - Digital terrestrial
21% - Analogue cable
28% - Digital satellite
36% - Digital cable

Personally I am hoping that FreeSat in the UK will really take off soon. It offers HD channels and is completely free (once you have bought the receiving equipment which isn't that much). Its from the BBC and ITV but also provides all the Channel 4 channels (More 4, E4, Film Four etc) and quite a few others.


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demons breath
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Hmm I guess I thought cable had a larger market share over here. Thinking about it though actually a lot of people have Freeview. My family does (didn't really occur to me as I don't really watch TV)

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Posted: 18th Dec 2009 04:48 Edited at: 18th Dec 2009 04:58
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Quote: "onally I am hoping that FreeSat in the UK will really take off soon"


Personally I hope that they abolish the BBC Licensing fee completely. Let the channel stand on its own feet, without having to be piggybacked by a lump sum fee each year.

By Law I have to pay my licensing fee each year, and I very rarely watch the BBC (Or even TV for that matter)

Especially considering people like Jonathan Ross get paid £6m (This is what it was, I think its at £3m a year now), which shouldn't be happening on a public funded broadcaster.

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