Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
Because you have to wait, sometimes for days, for cable to be fixed. Wires have to be restrung, etc. With Sat, it quite often is just till the weather clears.
During the visit of leftovers from a hurricane, cable was out, some places for a week.
I never lost my dish service at all, and we're talking 45 mph winds.
But, again consider that in many communities, especially big cities and newer communities, the utilities are underground. This means that the cable service in those areas are completely unaffected by weather events. The dish is affected in that it's subject to interruption and potential alignment issues. We've never had cable service interrupted by weather, but the satellite has gone out a few times during heavy storms.

Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
Just saying that cable ads about losing sat service during weather are a bit misleading, is all.
And more complicated doesn't mean more impossible. You run a cable to a small tv
at the dish and go to work. Its not that hard, harder to do without service(TV junkie
here).
WHEN SETTLERS broke a wagon wheel going west, they couldn't call triple A.
But to each his own, some of us just don't have the watch makers gene. And those
people have to wait three days.
And trust to the competence of strangers.
Competence of strangers? The technician came out and fixed the problem, end of story. I did not get charged for it, and frankly I got better things to do than getting up on my roof and repositioning a 40 lb. satellite dish when somebody else will do it for free. Three days without Directv gave me a chance to watch some of the programs I had queued up on the DVR, and catch up on some movies.

In the 13 years I've had Directv service, this is the first time we've had to realign the dish. The technician did indicate though that the 5 LNB dishes are a lot more difficult to align, and don't take much movement to interrupt the service.