j4cksparrow

You can utilize that 40 ft tower more, by buying dishes for satellites and have them installed on the tower for great signal, to receive free to air channels and pay per view ones if you know how to mod the receiver box, that you can buy online or from a local retailer. Viewsat is the best receiver out there now

I am having a 50 ft tower installed this summer to receive over the air HD channels on our Tv that has a built in ATSC tuner. That is the going rate for towers by the way.

Nice home and blog you have

iaink

Wow, thats a lot less than Xplore net want for 2MB

Which company is it?

iaink

The problem with satelite dishes on antenna towers is that they wobble around like crazy in the wind, and snow and ice clearance is near impossible, so signal drop out is a big problem (thats what we were told anyway)

j4cksparrow

It all depends on how solid the tower is in the first place. The key is to have the tower into the ground properly, using gravel and cement to hold it down.

atfab

This company seems to offer more for your buck than Xplore ......... but the question is availability ........... seems like they concentrate more in Eastern Ontario ................ Worth a bolo though..........................


http://www.storm.ca/Wireless.html

iaink

If only that was the case. Lattice type TV antenna towers are designed to flex, regardless of how firmly rooted they are. A hydro pole on the other hand might work.

Doesnt help either way with a satellite dish coated in freezing rain. The ice/ snow from the last dump of freezing rain only melted in the last few days here, after about 10 days coverage. Bit inconvenient 50 feet up if it happens to coat the antenna.

dbd33

Oh good grief, if I want to watch a film I want the characters to speak at the pace they would in real life, I want them to move with fluid, natural, movements. I don't a shitload of unreliable geekery all over the house in order to see jerky movements and hear snatches of dialog as if I was overhearing a conversation in a train. dvds delivered by post are just a better solution than a transmitted signal, especially somewhere like Canada where much of the country has no infrastructure. VHS is even a better solution but, of course, it's becoming difficult to get videos in that format.

Besides which, I haven't needed a "computer room" since the eighties, I don't need to be doing with suspended floors and chillers no more. If I have a disk I can play it at home, in the car, in the office, wherever; all that's needed is a laptop or a TV and a $40 player.

iaink

Cheers, bit too far east for me...Im asking Jane really as shes in my general neck of the woods.

iaink

I defy you to name three ways VHS is better!!!

dbd33

I believe that to be true. However, a man is coming at ten to give us a big erection. I'll have direct experience of that this afternoon and will report (perhaps using this dial up service).

dbd33

You can wind to a specific frame, not just to "chapters".

The picture doesn't fragment into pixels.

The medium is good for better than ten years. I'm not sure how long but dvds are only good for five.

atfab

Make good and sure that it is protected from ice and snow now!............................................:r ofl:

iaink

You can advance a DVD frame by frame...and it doesn't flicker, you can enter a time to go to to the second too. Last I checked VCRs didnt even have chapters, unless you had a fancy machine that indexed the tapes as it recorded them.

My DVDs picture never fragments into pixels...even the kids disks are seemingly durable in this respect. The only time thats an issue is if there is some drop out from the camcorder to the computer if Im using a compressed format to record data from the camcorder rather than raw AVI. Maybe the trick is to spend more than $40 on the machine?

Ten years...good luck! Ever dropped a cassette? Or given it to a small child for a few minutes, or had a VCR machine chew it up and spit it out or wrap the tape around the head? Many of my DVDs are wa more than 5 years old, and none have any degradation. Cant say the same for some of the snowier tapes.

Im not a big fan of VCR is you hadnt guessed. Try playing a VCR on your laptop

Good luck with your erection, I know its been a while now Hopefully your quality of life will improve enormously as a result

Madmac

DB - Will you be fiddling with your erection all weekend then?

Canada Jane

We are with Xplornet and we rarely have a problem with the connection. The wind certainly hasn't affected it and nor has any of the weather we have had lately including the ice rain.

The only time we have a problem is when they upgrade or do some work on the system - they don't let you know they are doing it and it sometimes slows it down to dial up speeds for a few hours, but on the whole we are pretty pleased with it.