On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 05:43:53 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

I also purchased a portable sat dish and got a Direct TV account for use on
the boat. It works great and during the winter I bring it home and have the
dish temporarily mounted on a rear porch. All the programming is digital
obviously, and the quality of the picture is superior to that provided by
Comcast which has some of the programming in digital and some in analog
(without use of a box). I just have the basic service but I get over 500
channels, which is kinda stupid because I only watch about 4 of them. It's
not HD, but for some reason the quality of the picture is very good. When
people see it they think it's HD until I show them the difference.

Two questions - how's the HD service between the two in terms of
number of channels and where can I get one of those protable satellite
deals? :)

Oh, third - 500 channels?!?!?

Dude....