I love my dish and would never give it up. If you have a keen eye for video and know what MPEG compression looks like, you can spot it, although some channels are encoded at a lower bitrate and artifacting can be bad, especially when there's alot of motion on-screen. Most channels, including the "cable" channels, premium channels, and PPV channels are done with a higher birate that yields slightly less than DVD quality, and is WAY better than cable otherwise, IMHO.
For DirecTV, you need a clear line of sight to about 10 degrees west of south and about 30 above the horizon. I have seen some people get reception behind some trees, but behind buildings or heavy trees, it just won't work. Dish Network uses satellites in a different part of the sky. Perhaps you can get line-of-sight with them. Here is a link that, given a city where you live (or close to) will tell you the part of the sky to need a clear shot to (remember EchoStar = DishNetwork): http://www.satellitetech.com/install.html And for those TRUE science geeks, you can use the J-Track 3-D java applet from NASA that shows the position of over 800 satellites around earth in realtime in a 3D rotatable display where you can actually find these DirecTV/Dish Network satellites. They will be in the geosynchronous band at ~22,000 miles out.... hehe http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/ Enjoy! Mike W. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30211&t=30136 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
