Is there an alternative to CableVision???

Dear Bushbaby. Please investigate Tricom Cable service. I am fairly sure that they will provide service to your "barrio"

Cordially,

HB

Try Sky. I love it - fab signal and all the channels including golf and BBC news.

http://www2.sky.com.mx/centro-america/

Matilda

Tried SKY and was the most difficult contract to get out of, ever. Minimum contract was 18 months.
They kept trying to knick me with additional charges when I did cancel, just awful.
It's based in Mexico, and they were really difficult, was my experience anyway.
I see Claro dishes all over the campo BB, maybe their service is worth a look.

tflea said:

Tried SKY and was the most difficult contract to get out of, ever. Minimum contract was 18 months.
They kept trying to knick me with additional charges when I did cancel, just awful.
It's based in Mexico, and they were really difficult, was my experience anyway.
I see Claro dishes all over the campo BB, maybe their service is worth a look.

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I had a contract with Sky once. I quit after one month, as the service was horrendous. They got the middle of a Bagel from me towards the contract.

I have Sky too and the "Fun" package is adequate for my viewing needs.... only time the signal is affected is in torrential rain but experienced that too when had original satellite TV via Dish network.

I still have a couple of 6ft satellite dishes on my roof which are now redundant if anyone is interested in them.

i USE Dish 270 chns works great for last 12 years

Yes the Sky contract is 18 months and I have had them for around 6 years with no issues, including a few moves. All programmes are in English or Spanish - well most anyway. Claro is mostly Spanish and nothing like the range of Channels.

Matilda

Grahame my friend. Let's talk about American Direct TV. We installed it at Mary Rose in November and it is just fantastic. We get most of the American channels and we even installed a second dish to get 50+ Spanish channels. My friend Jesse is a dealer in the US and can install the service for you very quickly. He is here in the DR often and if you want to give it a try, I will let him know so he can get the boxes here. He does a very professional installation. All I need to know is how many TV's you want to hook up. We have 17 hooked up at Mary Rose on the two dishes. And the best part, the picture is CRISTAL CLEAR all the time, (except when we are getting pouring rain) but that is a problem with all satellite services

You will need at least one satellite dish but if you want the Spanish channels as well, you better get two. Talk to Whirley and make a deal for her dishes. The reason we don't get all the channels is because of our location here in the DR. We get about 70% of the transponders on the satelitte. The others are too far away or pointed to a specific area of the US for us to tune them in.

Anyway, after 3 months with DTV, we are more than satisfied with the service and would do it again if we had another location that would warrent it.

Let me know if you have any futher questions sir and I would be pleased to answer them for you.

Take care,

Rick

Do not use Direct= poor signal use Dish!

TP666 said:

Do not use Direct= poor signal use Dish!

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Certainly NOT in our case. Our DTV is crystal clear and the signal is strong. Of course we are using 6 foot dishes. That may be the reason.

Take care,

Rick

I have SKY Satellite. I have had very good results. There are many sports and English channels. The most expensive package runs around $50usd a month. I am in LT so I would think it would be available any where on the north coast. Check it out.

LTSTeve

Grahame,
What kind of Internet speed do you have? People all over the USA are "cutting the [cable] cord" and loving it. We did it here too. Cable del Norte comes free to our condo, but we haven't turned it on in months.

BUT, you have to have decent Internet speed......after that it's nearly free and a la carte. Roku is a great way to make it easy and amazing number of channels.