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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MyBud, post: 2773, member: 426&quot;]OK - I'm biased, I love my big dish so we'll just get that out of the way! My dish is a 10ft mesh dish and I have 43+ acres so I can park it anywhere I want -LOL . Its my understanding that 9ft or larger is better for digital since it appears to be more picky than analog. I looked at the DSR410 but, again this is my understanding, that receiver only receives content from the W5 satellite. Granted there is a lot of stuff on W5 and you would not have any issues related to dish movement but I'd still rather have a DSR922. You would not believe the stuff you find just by 'cruising' the sky. I love the 'wild feeds' in particular. Most shows are uplinked to networks using analog wildfeeds which the network records and then rebroadcasts in digital. I recorded most of the episodes of the StarTrek spinoff 'Enterprise' as a wildfeed without commercials before anybody else saw them! SkyVision and BigDish are excellent sources of programming,equipment and information but there are others as well such as SPSprogramming.com. My current provider is CallNps.com.&nbsp; For me the big advantage of big dish is that there is more programming (except for sports), more ways to subscribe, more ways to package and more stuff thats free. I've already got the dish in place so the only cost for me is a new receiver. The downside for other people would be having to buy and maintain the equipment and in some areas there may not be as much technical support for the equipment. I'm lucky that where I live (north central TN) there are still a lot of companies that are happy to install and support C-Band equipment. And I gotta say maintenance isn't really as bad as it sounds my current dish sat out there for 12-15 years with little to no attention. I would like to know more about FTA especially for local channels which can be a problem for bigdish subscribers. DTV is going to be a disaster for me since I could never get a decent signal anyway and at the end of the day even 250 channels with nothing on is better than nothing at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p></p>

[QUOTE="MyBud, post: 2773, member: 426"]OK - I'm biased, I love my big dish so we'll just get that out of the way! My dish is a 10ft mesh dish and I have 43+ acres so I can park it anywhere I want -LOL . Its my understanding that 9ft or larger is better for digital since it appears to be more picky than analog. I looked at the DSR410 but, again this is my understanding, that receiver only receives content from the W5 satellite. Granted there is a lot of stuff on W5 and you would not have any issues related to dish movement but I'd still rather have a DSR922. You would not believe the stuff you find just by 'cruising' the sky. I love the 'wild feeds' in particular. Most shows are uplinked to networks using analog wildfeeds which the network records and then rebroadcasts in digital. I recorded most of the episodes of the StarTrek spinoff 'Enterprise' as a wildfeed without commercials before anybody else saw them! SkyVision and BigDish are excellent sources of programming,equipment and information but there are others as well such as SPSprogramming.com. My current provider is CallNps.com. For me the big advantage of big dish is that there is more programming (except for sports), more ways to subscribe, more ways to package and more stuff thats free. I've already got the dish in place so the only cost for me is a new receiver. The downside for other people would be having to buy and maintain the equipment and in some areas there may not be as much technical support for the equipment. I'm lucky that where I live (north central TN) there are still a lot of companies that are happy to install and support C-Band equipment. And I gotta say maintenance isn't really as bad as it sounds my current dish sat out there for 12-15 years with little to no attention. I would like to know more about FTA especially for local channels which can be a problem for bigdish subscribers. DTV is going to be a disaster for me since I could never get a decent signal anyway and at the end of the day even 250 channels with nothing on is better than nothing at all.[/QUOTE]

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