# Cable or Dish once and for all **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 3, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228 "2006-01-03T15:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rookee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rookee/32/5972_2.png) [@rookee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rookee)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/1 "2006-01-03T15:02:42Z")
I’m paying $115 a month for digital cable for 2 TVs and, DVR on one, and internet… so $70 without the net. The dish appears to be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper per month and it’s been out for while so I’ve heard alot of the reliabilty issues have been worked out. Honestly I don’t watch enough TV to justify the payment. ---
**Author:** ![cleanquick306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cleanquick306](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cleanquick306)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/2 "2006-01-03T15:06:34Z")
never owned a dish but my odl nieghbor did and they hated it ---
**Author:** ![newchic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newchic/32/5989_2.png) [@newchic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newchic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/3 "2006-01-03T15:06:50Z")
Everytime the Dish upgrades something you need to buy new equipment. Plus… If you have several TV’s like we do… you need more than one dish. I think it is 2 tv’s per dish… not sure though. ---
**Author:** ![rookee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rookee/32/5972_2.png) [@rookee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rookee)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/4 "2006-01-03T15:09:31Z")
looks like same package is about $42 a month for dish? sound about right :dunno: i only have 2 TVs it’s just 2 of us ---
**Author:** ![Sight\_N\_Sound](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sight_n_sound/32/5950_2.png) [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/5 "2006-01-03T15:11:43Z")
> [@newchic](#): > > Everytime the Dish upgrades something you need to buy new equipment. Plus… If you have several TV’s like we do… you need more than one dish. I think it is 2 tv’s per dish… not sure though. what are you talking about. We havn’t had to upgrade anything and there are always imporvments being made. We are notified of them as well… You can have as many TVs as you want on a single dish. They even make recievers that you can hook up several Tvs to one reciever and they all have their own remote allowing them to watch their own channels. Thus shrinking the amount of “Boxes” you need if you choose. Look it up. ---
**Author:** ![newchic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newchic/32/5989_2.png) [@newchic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newchic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/6 "2006-01-03T15:17:05Z")
> [@Sight N Sound](#): > > what are you talking about. > > We havn’t had to upgrade anything and there are always imporvments being made. We are notified of them as well… > > You can have as many TVs as you want on a single dish. They even make recievers that you can hook up several Tvs to one reciever and they all have their own remote allowing them to watch their own channels. Thus shrinking the amount of “Boxes” you need if you choose. Look it up. Ours must have been older than yours then… They told me it would like like $1000 to get everything we needed to have all the tv’s on the dish… it was 2 dish, 2 receivers… So we cancelled and went Cable… I like the cable and will never use the dish again. ---
**Author:** ![Quik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/quik/32/5979_2.png) [@Quik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quik)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/7 "2006-01-03T15:18:31Z")
without reading Fuck dish ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/8 "2006-01-03T15:19:50Z")
> [@Sight N Sound](#): > > what are you talking about. > > We havn’t had to upgrade anything and there are always imporvments being made. We are notified of them as well… > > You can have as many TVs as you want on a single dish. They even make recievers that you can hook up several Tvs to one reciever and they all have their own remote allowing them to watch their own channels. Thus shrinking the amount of “Boxes” you need if you choose. Look it up. we had one many years ago when the first came out. you needed a reciever for each tv. yeah, it’s a bit different now. we had ours before they had local channels available ---
**Author:** ![Sight\_N\_Sound](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sight_n_sound/32/5950_2.png) [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/9 "2006-01-03T15:21:21Z")
> [@newchic](#): > > Ours must have been older than yours then… They told me it would like like $1000 to get everything we needed to have all the tv’s on the dish… it was 2 dish, 2 receivers… So we cancelled and went Cable… I like the cable and will never use the dish again. what did you guys have one of those big 6 foot dishes you had to have a permit for??? We are going on 3 years with our stuff and have had no issues what so ever. So I don’t knwo if thats “newer” than your stuff… :dunno: ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/10 "2006-01-03T15:22:58Z")
now, we had the small dish, it was about 97ish when we bought it, maybe 98. ---
**Author:** ![newchic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newchic/32/5989_2.png) [@newchic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newchic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/11 "2006-01-03T15:25:28Z")
We’ve had cable since 2001??? maybe ---
**Author:** ![Sight\_N\_Sound](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sight_n_sound/32/5950_2.png) [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/12 "2006-01-03T15:26:14Z")
missed your post… sorry, yeah thats is older. Anyways Cable sucks especially with them constantly rasing their rates. In 3 years I have had one rate rase back when Viacomm was causing issues. It went up by 1 dollar. Then they sent out an appology for it and gave us 4 or 5 free Pay per view movie vouchers. :boink: So I pay 65 now instead of 64, and I have HBO Cinemax and like 120 channels, Locals, plus I get their music channels _AND_ All the sirius Music channels which are no extra cost and don;t count towards the 120 channels… Plus its already digital. Its only gone out 2 or 3 times for a total of like 1-10 min. Never had a ice problem. I laugh because my dad is getting another $5 (approx) hike on his comcast and he gets less than I do… Dish = the win ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/13 "2006-01-03T15:28:39Z")
I had dish and cable at the same time in cincy, cousin watched dish upstairs Im down stairs watching the same damn program on cable. The biggest fucking delay ever for that dish, It sounded like an echo:rolleyes: dish was harder to navigate, slower scroll menu :kekegay: I dont know what the $ was for each one out thier. ---
**Author:** ![BlkP42E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blkp42e/32/5938_2.png) [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/14 "2006-01-03T15:29:10Z")
what about your local channels??!?!?!?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/15 "2006-01-03T15:30:07Z")
> [@BlkP42E](#): > > what about your local channels??!?!?!?! :eek: the local channles are for OPRAH people :down: ---
**Author:** ![Sight\_N\_Sound](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sight_n_sound/32/5950_2.png) [@Sight\_N\_Sound](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sight_N_Sound)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/16 "2006-01-03T15:30:55Z")
> [@mesteño](#): > > I had dish and cable at the same time in cincy, > cousin watched dish upstairs > Im down stairs watching the same damn program on cable. > > The biggest fucking delay ever for that dish, It sounded like an echo:rolleyes: > > dish was harder to navigate, slower scroll menu :kekegay: > > I dont know what the $ was for each one out thier. there are delays between cable, HD, and Dish. And chad if you were asking about my locals they were also included and not part of the 120 channels… ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/17 "2006-01-03T15:31:22Z")
the two things i like most about dish, was speed channel was on the basic package for me,(cable is not) and i liked the guide menu. you could scroll hrs ahead to see what was on and shit like that. ---
**Author:** ![newchic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newchic/32/5989_2.png) [@newchic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newchic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/18 "2006-01-03T15:32:47Z")
> [@eurodad](#): > > the two things i like most about dish, was speed channel was on the basic package for me,(cable is not) and i liked the guide menu. you could scroll hrs ahead to see what was on and shit like that. Yeah the scroll ahead thing was cool ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/19 "2006-01-03T15:34:37Z")
Comcast Cable modem \>\* cable has the scroll ahead mode also 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![eurodad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eurodad/32/5988_2.png) [@eurodad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eurodad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228/20 "2006-01-03T15:38:22Z")
> [@mesteño](#): > > Comcast Cable modem \>\* > > cable has the scroll ahead mode also 🤣 ours doesn’t we don’t have digital adelphia sucks [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cable-or-dish-once-and-for-all/179228.md?page=2)