we have shaw sat. and its pretty goood it all depends on witch package you get it does have minor drawbacks like in really bad snow storms and thunder storms you lose signal  but its really minimal everything has drawbacks but we have it and we love it

That would be about 220 more than I have....!

Todd,  My husband and I subscribed about 5 years back and discontinued because the service always went down in stormy weather.  The signal seemed to be very weak and we went back to rogers.  Ask the guy about signal strength!

Shaw did take over Starchoice, they've been trying to get me back as a customer for a while, I'm not a big Rogers fan but it is reliable

Just for my buddy Carl427's benefit; the missus and I use rabbit ears out here! YEP! That's it. And we get a whole 9 channels! So see Carl? Not only do we have running water, hydro and an indoor bathroom, we also have state of the art TV hookup ta boot! LOL!

We are on Shaw, like it, but as they say, weather plays havoc in bad storm. If you have 5 tvs they will all be on the same channel unless you go for "extra" black boxes for around$5 ea. a mth & a mutiple head on dish for the extra coax cable from ea. set. Their pkgs are OK but I'm going to call for some extra's singular like TNT without having to take the whole Pkg. that goes with it [ 8 chnl. & you only want on of them]

We just cancelled it after 8 years. Price went up really quickly with no extra value in the channels. Big thing for us was the time shifting, could watch the same program at an earlier time. Then the networks changed the schedule so that didn't work.

Had to get too much extra stuff to get what we wanted.

Will work on the car and the house for now. Maybe later we will hook up again, or not.

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I have had satellite service since 89 and am presently subscribed to Shaw. Since Shaw has taken over the price went up dramatically and I will switch to Bell in the near future. Rogers is not an option as I have had it in the past and I literally have had it with them, both cell phone and tv. Do not be fooled by the promise of 225 channels or 450 or whatever; just look at the channels that are available and consciously look at what you will ACTUALLY use ie: how many alternative language channels will you use, how many music stations will you listen to, how many children's channels will you watch, how many sports channels will you use, how many shopping channels will you purchase from, how many HD channels, which you don't subscribe to, will be counted as one of those 225 channels and remember that each one of those is duplicated on your regular channels, how many abc, nbc, abc, ctv, c bc, xxx, channels do you require as they are all the same, just at different time slots, ie eastern time, central time western time, your time, whatever? The only reason I would go to Bell is that the service is just about identical however everything else I have is there; not necessarily a great reason however it is what it is. One thing I have noticed over the years is that whatever specific channel you would like to watch at a specific time you will not have a subscription to it in the long run and it will be necessary to purchase additional channels anyway. The problems with storms, ie rain and snow, occurr so seldom it really has never had an impact on my television viewing and I watch a considerable amout of programming. You also have to remember that television is for most people the main source of their entertainment, even if they don't wan't to admit it, therefor you should ensure you subscribe to a system that will meet your demands, not of those that would like to impose their views of television watching that they subscribe to. Sorry about being so long winded; I looked for stuff to take out and I just couldn't fine anything so there you go. Doug.