It’s hard to imagine really loving a TV service, right? Well, let’s take it down a notch and talk about things that you can really, really like about satellite TV. When we say satellite TV we are talking mostly about Free-To-Air (FTA) satellite TV services. So we are comparing FTA satellite TV to cable TV [...]
Prior to subscription based services like DIRECTV and DishNetwork, many more people needing an alternative to cable or analog TV turned to FTA satellites to pick up more TV stations. This was especially popular in remote areas where cable TV wasn’t an option. Over the years this has decreased some in popularity which is a [...]
Quite a while ago the FCC put an end to landlords stopping tenants from receiving satellite TV services and it seems like the general perception is that they still aren’t allowed (which is simply not true). The landlord can restrict the installation and build some rules around satellite service but they cannot deny the service [...]
Football has become America’s pastime. Some of the most-watched programs in television history have been Super Bowls. Regular season football games routinely rate higher than World Series and NBA Finals games. So it’s no surprise that many of our most rabid sports fans are NFL fans. Below are the best of the best – more [...]
The birth of the summer blockbuster occurred in 1975 when little-known director Stephen Spielberg brought us his masterpiece Jaws. In later years came high budget movies like Star Wars, ET, Blade Runner, Top Gun, Batman, The Fugitive, Independence Day, Godzilla, Armageddon, and The Matrix. In 2010, we’ve eagerly awaited the latest installments/versions of Iron Man, [...]
If you are in a rural area and really need Internet access but don’t want to have a huge communications bill for your home, you may want to consider different ways to leverage your Satellite Internet connection (VOIP phone calls, streaming movies, and even streaming TV shows). Of course, you don’t need to live in [...]
We frequently get asked at satellite conferences and trade shows about what satellites are actually used for apart from spying/military use and satellite TV purposes. In fact there are many more widespread uses of satellites that don’t necessarily come to mind in most conversations about them. We decided to put together a list of the [...]
By the end of this article if you didn’t already know you will know that DIRECTV takes all forms of piracy very seriously. They have a pretty aggressive team in place to police violators on multiple fronts from the tech gurus that hack their smart cards to business owners that use home service for commercial [...]
We all marvel at the amazing images that we see coming from our satellites whether it is a view from space of a major hurricane or a great look at a huge sinkhole that almost looks like a perfect circle from space. Other than the fact that they exist most people have no idea either [...]
While living in rural America can have numerous advantages, it can be very frustrating having to deal with dial-up Internet access as your only Internet option. It is estimated that there are over 30 million people in rural America that cannot get high speed Internet access. But cheer up, satellite Internet access could be a [...]
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