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Thanks to all of my great customers !! I appreciate your 17+ years of support.
Grant Manning
Welcome to Skycable's home page. We have been providing satellite systems, off-air antennas, service, and custom home theater to rural Tennessee since 1990.
We service DeKalb, Warren, and Cannon counties, and small portions of White, and Van Buren counties. We stock pretty much everything.
Skycable has won the Smithville Review's "Best of the Best" award for six years running.
I have been in the consumer electronics business since the early '70's. There isn't much that I haven't done!
These pictures are of myself and the radio I built when I was 15, (yes, those are "tubes"), and a more recent picture of myself with a couple of the ladies from The Extasy Networks at a recent Dish Network function at Opryland in Nashville.
I am also a licensed
Realtor with Sunbelt Real Estate in Smithville, TN. 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 at (800)649-3008, or you can use our Smithville
number, which is (615)597-8565.
Local phones are (931)473-4949 and (615)597-5735. Please leave me a message if I'm not in. I check our machine constantly with my mobile phone.
Store, and showroom:
3310 Allen Bend Road,
Smithville Tennessee. 37166-5574
Google Maps: Allen Bend Road, Belk, TN (map link opens in a new browser window). Please note: Google Maps is a great tool, but it hasn't quite figured out where things are in rural Tennessee yet, so don't believe that map 100%. The streets on that map are in the correct places, but the landmarks (Skycable, Belk Grocery) are not.
E-mail: skycable (at) tennsat.com
I am located in the Belk community, 3.5 miles from the Belk CIC. Store hours are 9-5PM Monday thru Friday. Please call ahead before coming. I am a one person company, and depend on you leaving me a clear name and phone number on the machine. This gives me the best chance to respond to you quickly !! I am generally around "live" in the mornings from 7AM to about 9:30AM, and in the evenings from about 5PM to 9PM.
I offer satellite, data, custom audio/video, and home theater packages designed for you. I am an authorized Dish Network Retailer, and have been installing High Definition equipment (HDTV) since it's inception. For more information, please call me and I will call you back!
New Dish Equipment!
We are installing the Model 311 receiver system for single +room installations, and the model 322for two room installations. Both are standard definition units. The 322 is two receivers within one box. Both have caller ID built in.
Digital Video Recorders. These are Dish Network receivers with hard drives in them that will store (record) programming, so you that you can watch your tv when you have time to. They can be easily programmed to record your favorite shows, while you are "out on the lake" or whatever.
The deluxe standard definition Dish/DVR (model 625) has dual tuners so that you can watch one channel and record another or do picture in picture, or or have DVR capabilities in two rooms, or any combination of those features.
The Dish High Definition DVR (model VIP 622) is also a two tuner receiver, and will record about 25 hours in Hi Def, and something like 200 hours in standard def. Both tuners have DVR capabilities, but only one will record in hi def.
Please call me and we will figure out what will work best for you!
Dish Network now offers 21 channels in High Definition (HDTV), including the following local channels from Nashville: 2, 4, 5 and 17. You must have a high definition TV to watch these, along with a DISH HDTV receiver to receive them.
Here's the current Dish Network Channel Lineup Card (Adobe Acrobat "PDF" format, 209k)
I do a lot of custom electronic work. Ask me about your ideas !
I do really nice surround systems on a one on one basis. call me for more information.
Current Dish Network Promotions
Digital Home Advantage (18 month agreement).
This is a leased system. The upfront cost is $49.99 plus tax, which is credited back to you on your first months bill. This promotion requires a credit card or debit card (which is used for credit verfication purposes). You can have up to four room (watch different programs in four separate locations) and have a free DVR/HDTV upgrade. It requires a 18 month programming term agreement. You also can have three months free of your favorite movie channel and $100 back in the form of a $10/month rebate on your bill. So it's a good deal.
Free For All
This is an owned system. You pay $149 plus tax, or $199 plus tax for a one or two receiver system. Dish Network will rebate the cost of your system back to you over 30 months for the one room system, and 40 months for a two room system. All Dish Network systems require a $4.99 access charge for all receivers beyond the first. Some systems require an additional charge for HDTV, or DVR service.
Please call me for a free brochure.
Programming Prices:
VCR/DVD Players
Skycable carries VCR/DVD players along on the van. Let us know and we will install one for you and show you how to run it while we are there.
Questions?
Please feel free to e-mail or call me us if you have any specific question about satellite TV.
Over the past few years television has been slowly going digital. On Wednesday, February 17th 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. Most Nashville stations are now broadcasting in both analog, and digital. Digital television (DTV) is NOT necessiarly HDTV. With a good antenna, you can view Nashville's TV stations in a digital format. There are about 18 channels, and seven of those signals are in HDTV.
How do you get HDTV on your TV set? First, you must have a TV set capable of receiving HDTV signals. If you have a good antenna, you will see the Nashville stations in digital, some of which are in HDTV. Most people are going to be watching either cable, or satellite to get their national HDTV programming. TV antennas don't work well in this area of Tennessee due mostly to the weather. There are exceptions to this, but few. A TV capable of receiving HDTV programming has a wider screen than do the current analog "square" screen sets. It also offers Dolby 5.1 digital surround sound, as part of the package. You can't get a HDTV television, and simply hook it up to a satellite or cable box and watch it on channel three. That won't work !! You would be watching standard definition programming on a high definition monitor. "Stretched" is the word.
To get HDTV programming via satellite you need a new receiver, an MPEG-4, HDTV unit. (DISH models VIP 211, and VIP 622DVR) These will allow you to view standard definition channels, as well as high definition channels. You will also need to subscribe to a HDTV programming package, currently $20/month for 29 more channels. A few channels mimic their standard definition bretheren, but many are "new" HDTV only channels.
Why would you want to do this? In a word, the HDTV pictures are "stunning". Once you watch HDTV, even the commercials look good. I've seen fantastic programming in HDTV. A "normal" HDTV picture looks way better than a DVD does now. The receivers are capable of "expanding" standard definition programming to "fit" the new HDTV screen. So you can also watch SDTV, stretched a little. Owning a HDTV set will also allow you to use your current DVD player to it's fullest capability using the "component" video inputs. (wideband analog) HDTV is provided using the "HDMI" video inputs, which also gives you stunning digital 5.1 Dolby surround sound.
I realize that this is a lot to understand, please feel free to call me with your questions!
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