On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 05:51:04PM -0600, Robert Denier wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 18:35 -0500, Maverick wrote: > I've no idea about firewire. Personally from what little I've heard if > you didn't want to save a little money on programming then directv is > probably what you want for myth. I have dish and don't regret that. If
The cost difference seems quite large particularly if you have an antenna to get digital TV and HDTV as I do, and just want a source of the major non-OTA channels. Dish has a package at $27/month without locals or $32/month with the locals, and has the channels I pay any attention to -- news, a&e, SF, Comedy, Discovery, Food and a few others. Compared to about $45 for Expanded Basic cable (which has a few more channels and of course all the locals) and $42 for DirecTV without locals I think. The $60/year for local channels they typically charge may be worth it for a 2nd access on the local SD channels, or you could of course put up an pvr-150 card for a full extra tuner card, no direct win here. Other alternatives are Expressvu (though not on the west coast and deep south any more) Their basic plan at $25 CDN -- about $23 USD after adding 15% of tax -- does not have many of the specialty channels but they can be added in $5 packs. I am dropping Expressvu though because it only half-works in California now. You need a Canadian billing address of course, which is easy for me because I am Canadian, but there are services which will arrange that for you. Expressvu uses Dish network equipment, so no serial port to change channels. Starchoice has a really cheap mostly-locals at $20 CDN but the more full featured pack is going to be about $40 USD, not too much less than DirecTV. One big difference about the Canadian services is that you get every single local channel in Canada, over 5 time zones. So all network shows (including all U.S. network shows) are on several times a night. So you won't have many conflicts, even with a single tuner, it's like having an extra tuner.
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
