Welcome to Skycable!

We have been providing satellite systems, off-air antennas, service and custom home theater to rural Tennessee since 1990. The counties we service are: DeKalb, Warren, Cannon, and small portions of White and Van Buren.

Skycable is your only local Authorized Retailer for Dish Network. All nationally advertised Dish Network promotions are available LOCALLY through SKYCABLE.

Contact information: To place an order, schedule service, or request a brochure, call: 615-597-5735

Please leave a message if we happen to be away from the phone. We will return your call promptly.

Store and showroom:
3310 Allen Bend Road
Smithville, TN 37166
On Allen Bend Rd., 3.5 miles from the Belk Community Center.

We have won the Smithville Review's "Best of the Best" award for DeKalb County in the category of "satellite retailer", for the past 8 years.

I am also a licensed Realtor with SUNBELT Real Estate in Smithville. I would love to help you buy or sell your home/farm, or help you find that choice piece of lakefront property! Please contact me (Grant Manning) at Sunbelt, 615-597-8565 or 800-649-3008.

Free For All (Purchase the equipment... no agreement to sign, no credit qualification)

There are many programming packages available, including three High Definition only packages. Please give us a call and we will send you a current brochure, or help you choose a package to best suit your needs.

We would love to have you back in the Dish Network Family. There is a promotion for you including most of the same incentives as the Digital Home Advantage. Call us for the details !

HDTV - A Brief Explanation of the DTV Conversion

Over the past few years, broadcast television has been slowly going to a digital format. On Friday, June 12, 2009, Congress has decreed that all analog over-the-air broadcasting will cease. This means that with an antenna hooked up to a standard TV set, you will only get snow. All Nashville stations are now broadcasting in both analog and digital. In order to receive the digital broadcasts, you will need a "digital to analog" converter box. This box converts the existing digital signals back to analog so you can watch them on your existing TV set. These converters are available from most big box stores and can be purchased cheaply. You can get a free coupon available from the government. Or, buy a new digital television.

Digital television will give you an excellent picture and more channels, IF you live in a good signal area. At the present time, there are about 18 channels available from Nashville. Seven of these are also broadcast in High Definition (HDTV).

How do you get HDTV on your TV set? Digital television (DTV) is NOT necessarily HDTV. You would need a new TV set, one with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio. That is, one with a slightly wider than higher screen. These new TVs have digital tuners built into them and will receive all digital broadcasts, including those in high definition. With this TV you would not need a converter box.

The existing TV antenna must be working well for either the converter box or a new digital television to work properly when connected to it. The antenna must work well at UHF frequencies. The reason for this is that most of the digital channels are being broadcast at UHF frequencies. An example of this is WKRN, now channel 2 analog. It is broadcasting on channel 27 in the digital format. They may choose to continue calling themselves channel 2, but they will actually be on channel 27.

UHF frequencies are affected by the weather and tree leaves. In the past, not much attention has been given to them by TV antenna manufacturers.

You can't get a HDTV capable television and simply hook it up to an existing cable or satellite box and watch it on channel three. That won't work. While you can watch this, you would be watching standard definition programming on a high definition monitor. "Stretched" is the word. You will have to obtain new hardware and HDTV programming from your video provider.

In order to receive HDTV programming via satellite you will need a new receiver, a MPEG-4 HDTV unit, and a new satellite antenna. You will also have to subscribe to a HDTV programming package, or upgrade your current package to include HD. (Please see the "Dish 'n' It Up" promotion.)

Why would you want to do this? In a word, the HDTV pictures are "stunning". Once you watch HDTV, even the commercials look good. A "normal" HDTV picture looks way better than a DVD does now. The new satellite receivers are capable of "expanding" standard definition programming to "fit" the wider HDTV screen. This way you can watch SD programming, stretched a little! Owning a HDTV capable set will allow you to use your current DVD player to its fullest capability using the "component" (wideband analog) inputs on the TV... it will look better than ever. Satellite HDTV uses an all-digital cable (HDMI) which will also enable Dolby 5.1 surround sound (when available).

Please call us with any questions.