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?

-- 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.