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Originally Posted by Chad Hauris
Am so glad for the advent of direct TV/digital satellite...can finally watch TV shows that I want to in a rural area where there is no cable.
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No cable? I find that difficult to believe in this day and age. You must live in an area so rural that no cable company wants to extend its network there. I would have thought that there is at least one good-sized city near you with a cable system willing to connect your home to it. IIRC, you are near Odessa and Midland, Texas, both of which very likely have cable systems. How far are you from either or both of those cities?
Satellite is good, I guess; however, I wouldn't know for sure, as I never had it, though some folks here do. My small northeastern Ohio town of 3,180 population has had digital cable (Comcast) for years--we cannot get decent TV reception here without it. Satellite service, however, has its drawbacks; you sometimes lose the signal in rain or snowstorms (or even if a good wind blows against the dish), and sometimes you might lose your picture for no reason at all. (I know this from having seen a commercial running on Comcast cable for an organization called onlycablecan.org, which extolls the virtues of cable against the problems of getting TV reception via satellite; another organization does just the opposite in its commercial, also seen here on cable from time to time, pitting satellite TV against cable.)
However, as I said at the start of this message, I find it almost incredible that your area does not have cable in the 21st century; I always thought cable TV was more or less national in scope, being available virtually anywhere. Are there any plans for the cable systems in either Odessa or Midland to extend their networks to your town? Just curious.