zap2it fixed

zap2it seems to be allowing you to see "All Channels" again, finally.

Of course it's still pretty slow.

-Dan Damouth

Charles M...

Technically, yes, their highly compressed, very lossy signal comes in off a
single, fixed satellite at a frequency that suffers from rain fade in heavy
storms and they charge a monthly price that would be too high if it were a
yearly rate. In other words, yes, but they behave more like a cable provider.
I was referring to C-band, and actually zap2it only gives analog channels
(although with around 20000 possible digital channels, roughly
800 channels/satellite *24 satellites I believe, it would be very difficult
for them to list all of them)

Rob Jensen...

I have Dish and am in the boonies in the Midwest, so I'll bite --
what's C-Band, how does it compare (in even more detail than above) to
Dish/DirecTV in tech specs, signal strength during bad weather and
cost and how the heck does one get it?

Tony Calguire...

C-Band is sometimes called "BUD", for "big ugly dish". It is the kind
of satellite dish you saw in peoples' yards years and years before you'd
ever heard of Dish Network or DirectTV. The FAQ for the newsgroup
rec.video.satellite.tvro should provide all the info you'd ever need on
the subject.

-- Rob

Daniel Damouth...

I don't have time to compare features every few months, but after
clicktv died, zap2it seemed the best of the rest.

zap2it being slow is annoying, but since you can get 6 hours at a time
(listing all ~80 channels I want) I don't need to refresh very often.

-Dan Damouth

cloud dreamer...

And no Canadian listings. For the odd time that zap (or it's sister site
here: canoe.ca) is slow, I'll take it over anything I've found online yet.

The only listings that were ever superior to it was excite.ca - and that
doesn't exist anymore.

Tony Calguire...

Yahoo! has Canadian listings if you go to tv.yahoo.ca. The interface is
identical, except that the zip code box allows you to enter a postal
code.

cloud dreamer...

It doesn't give me all the providers available in this area. I have
satellite...it only lists Rogers cable.

I'll stick to canoe.ca

Roy Knable...

I like TitanTV myself. Yahoo's fixed-height DIVs with hidden overflow
annoy me no end.