Dish actually has the decoders outside, on the dish! If you want 2 tvs, you have to have a dual receiver on the dish. The installer told me that If I wanted more than 2 tvs, I'd need two separate dishes. I can't imagine it is much of a technical challenge to put the decoder in the house, and split to the various rooms.
We had Comcast (formerly AT&T Broadband) two years ago. I didn't like the cost (~$40) and the digital cable wasn't responsive. I despise commercials, so I tend to watch 3 or 4 shows simultaneously, constantly switching to avoid ads. It took sometimes 2 sec. to switch a channel.
I was lured away to DishNetwork by 3mo. free, same price, and more channels. They had to install the dish, run cables from the dish, and I have to have a special receiver at each TV. With cable, I could at least watch standard cable in EVERY room, and only digital cable where I had a receiver. I found the picture quality to be *lower* with Dish, even after many technicians out to check the signal. It was visibly pixellated. Also, it would choke up *during* shows, while digital cable only seemed to choke when trying to change to the channel. Dish would also charge premium movies to our account during times we *knew* nobody was watching. They refused to block them.
Anyway, I found our family was watching WAY too much TV with all those channels. We switched back to Comcast, got the basic cable (they don't advertise it, you have to ask specifically) for $13/mo. and subscribed to netflix for $20/mo.
We now get a better selection of movies, get local channels and some of the cable channels (TBS, TLC, etc), pay less, and have no 'boxes' on top of the TVs.
Also, with fewer stations, we often find ourselves thinking there's nothing good on, so we read a book or do something more constructive anyway.
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For your protection against what we've done, you should just give us all your info, all the time.
I'd never give them all my info. I keep it safe. I uploaded it to the cloud..... uh, oh.
Dish actually has the decoders outside, on the dish! If you want 2 tvs, you have to have a dual receiver on the dish. The installer told me that If I wanted more than 2 tvs, I'd need two separate dishes. I can't imagine it is much of a technical challenge to put the decoder in the house, and split to the various rooms.
What possible reason is there behind this?
We had Comcast (formerly AT&T Broadband) two years ago. I didn't like the cost (~$40) and the digital cable wasn't responsive. I despise commercials, so I tend to watch 3 or 4 shows simultaneously, constantly switching to avoid ads. It took sometimes 2 sec. to switch a channel.
I was lured away to DishNetwork by 3mo. free, same price, and more channels. They had to install the dish, run cables from the dish, and I have to have a special receiver at each TV. With cable, I could at least watch standard cable in EVERY room, and only digital cable where I had a receiver. I found the picture quality to be *lower* with Dish, even after many technicians out to check the signal. It was visibly pixellated. Also, it would choke up *during* shows, while digital cable only seemed to choke when trying to change to the channel. Dish would also charge premium movies to our account during times we *knew* nobody was watching. They refused to block them.
Anyway, I found our family was watching WAY too much TV with all those channels. We switched back to Comcast, got the basic cable (they don't advertise it, you have to ask specifically) for $13/mo. and subscribed to netflix for $20/mo.
We now get a better selection of movies, get local channels and some of the cable channels (TBS, TLC, etc), pay less, and have no 'boxes' on top of the TVs.
Also, with fewer stations, we often find ourselves thinking there's nothing good on, so we read a book or do something more constructive anyway.