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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:38:54 PST
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- From: Vijay Vaidyanathan <zycad!yoda!vijay@SUN.COM>
- Subject: Which magazine is the best?
- In-Reply-To: "Barry E. Boone"'s message of Fri,
- 1 Jan 1993 01:32:39 GMT <9301010149.AA08923@Sun.COM>
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- > I am fairly new to satellite dishes, and we got a subscription to
- > Orbit magazine when we got our dish... subscription time will be
- > rolling around soon, and I am wondering if you satellite folks can
- > tell me which magazines (magazines which list satellite
- > programming) you thing are the best.
-
- I like Satellite TV week much better than Orbit; it costs $40 for
- a new subscription ($52 if you call them directly) for 52 issues
- (i.e. 1 yr).
-
- Drop by your dealer and pick up a back issue.
-
- When I compared it to Orbit a year or so ago, there was no
- contest, but I'm told Orbit has gotten better over the past year.
- Some factors to consider are:
-
- 1. Orbit is Monthly, Sat TV Week is Weekly
- 2. Orbit is regular-sized, but Sat TV Week is larger "tabloid
- size", which some folks consider unwieldy, but it lets you put
- more on a page
- 3. Sat TV Week lists programming by your time zone, I dont know if
- Orbit has started doing that yet.
- 4. Both have recurring feeds sections ...
- 5. I am told that Orbit has better "articles: (i.e.
- non-programming related stuff).
-
- Cant think of anything else ...
-
- - Vijay
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