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Originally Posted by Big-Ted
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Potential problems with satellite as a broadcast source.......
Solar activity
Weather ie snow on dish, very heavy rain
Available bandwidth, many on DS forum stating that now Sky are squeezing HD channels (4 per transponder) quality has dropped
The satellite in use is coming to the end of it's life (pass original life) so more at risk for failure with replacement not due till next year
satellite might just wander out of orbit like many before or be hit by space junk etc
Dish on house having problems silty LNB etc
Potential problems with cable
Cable cut by accident etc
Car hits roadside cabinet or vandalism, easier to fix than the satellite 
The above ignore headend problems such as fire as I assume they have disaster recovery plans for this. |
Surely cable tv can also be effected by all the satelite problems than? As VM tv is fed via big massive dishes. Although I think the BBC is a fibre feed.
Or am I wrong in thinking VMtv is just satelite tv fed to each user via fibre/coax?