Satellite

[kuulani]

I'm getting a satellite. Woo-hoo, hundreds of channels at my fingertips. Of course, knowing my luck, nothing good will be on ...

 

[Leslie]

On satellite here there still never is anything on, no matter how many channels

 

[kuulani]

The area I live in now can't catch regular cable ... so now I only have three channels, and two of 'em have snow most of the time

I'm looking forward to the Food Network and the Discovery Channel!!

 

[Luis G]

*cough* *cough* you can get a tv card *cough* and some little software to decode those encrypted channels. *cough*

 

[kuulani]

hey luis, are you coming down with a cold?

 

[Gonz]

DishNetwork with 150 channels of NOTHING!!!

It's nice having multiple Discoverys. Better picture & sound than cable. Hope you enjoy it.

 

[Luis G]

*cough * i'm *cough* covering *cough* from the police *cough* they could *cough* come and *cough* arrest me *cough*rolleyes:, yeah right)

This cold is getting worse....

 

[greenfreak]

The name of this thread reminded me of the Dave Matthews song so I'm listening to it now...

That's great that you're getting satellite. Think you'll have time to watch it with the baby coming?

 

[Professur]

Originally posted by kuulani
I'm getting a satellite.

don't satelites cost millions of dollars? And they're pretty useless until you put them into orbit.

 

[kuulani]

greenie - probably not, but it'll be great background noise.

prof -

 

[Gonz]

@Prof...

Are you getting Dish, Direct or a real satelite dish (ie 15')?

 

[kuulani]

Dish, I think. $39.99/month.

 

[Gonz]

That's what I have. After the baby is about 3, get the "local channels (KTLA, WSBK, KWGN, etc)...they have varied times for the little ones to watch all the cartoon shows, like Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Pokemon & stuff. Betweeen that & Cartoon Network you'll never hear from them again. You'll also loose your TV, it's a fair trade.

 

[kuulani]

I don't know who'll enjoy Cartoon Network more ... the baby or the father

 

[Professur]

The father. At least until the kid learns to work the remote.

 

[HomeLAN]

I'll agree with that. I live on a steady diet of Looney Tunes.

Choke up the extra $200 and get TIVO. It's more than worth it.

 

[kuulani]

What's TIVO? *wondering if that's available here*

 

[HomeLAN]

www.tivo.com

It's like a VCR, but it records to a hard drive, so you get all digital recording and some goodies you can't do with a VCR. I can freeze frame, slow-mo, pause live TV, etc.

Also, I can tell it to automatically record new broadcasts of a show, and it'll just do it for me. Only new ones, too, no re-runs.

 

[kuulani]

Oooooh.
Does it only work for television shows? Or movies too?

 

[Luis G]

Aren't those boxes the ones that are being "watched" to know the user's habits ?