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and welcome to votingtechtalk.com  so we've got a question from a fellow  voter evan and evan  asked a question that's actually pretty  pertinent and i get a lot  and this question is um i would like to  treat myself this year  and add a tv to my boat and i'm not sure  where to start  should i go to satellite tv or should i  use the internet for content  i want to watch the news at dinner and  maybe a movie  or two at night love your videos keep up  the good work  thank you for the encouragement i love  to share of course  and most people that know me know that  so that's a great question  there's really two means of watching  content  on a tv right obviously you can have  local content and some of us are going  to have a dvd  it could be a blu-ray it could be  whatever or even a movie on a hard drive  those things you don't need internet for  and you  obviously you're not streaming content  you're not downloading content  you're not watching tv content from a  service provider  it's just simply content you already  have on the boat so  one of the things that many people will  do the first bar  is especially if they've got a really  good seller or plan and they're in an  area where there's really good cell  coverage  or they have a booster check have one  you're going to be able to actually  stream over the air  even something like netflix or even  direct  from a cable provider that is actually  giving over the air service over the  internet you can actually stream that  with a good cell booster  and a good data package because of  course now you're paying on a per meg  basis or per  gig basis but you're going to be able to  stream this content like for example on  my own boat  yes i have a sailboat and yes i do have  a tv i don't  necessarily watch a live news or  anything like that but i will stream  content  especially if it's raining and miserable  in the winter when i'm boating  and it's dark i'm going to be streaming  netflix over the air with a cell booster  and it's a choice you know i limit the  data  and i go low quality on netflix so i'm  not streaming too high qua  quality it's not too expensive on the  data plan and i'll be streaming over the  air netflix and i'll be watching i  remember  uh watching any sort of show literally  on the boat  over cellular now if you're looking to  have more downloading content from one  of the content providers like  abc cbs fox whatever channel you're  watching cnn  you can do that but now you've got to  use a satellite dish and the satellite  dish  on a boat has to move because they  always have to be pointing at one  location and the boat is moving  so you're going to either be purchasing  what's called kvh or italian  both are good options and you've got to  do your homework to figure out  which one is right for you so now you've  installed this you purchased this dish  install this dish it's got a satellite  receiver  it's got us and then you buy from a  company like directv for example or in  canada here  an equivalent would be bell express view  and now you can literally stream  tv content like if you were at home no  different  and you can stream that content via your  satellite receiver that you have in boat  you see these domes they're about  generally about the smaller ones are  maybe about a foot and a half high  above this wide and they get bigger and  bigger depending on the size of the boat  because the bigger the dish of course  the bigger the reception so those are  the two main ways of  streaming content to your tv on a boat  one is over a cell booster  if there is a relatively okay sell  signal and the other one is actually  buying a  satellite tv receiver from kvh or  italian  and then buying a set-top box from one  of your service providers  satellite service providers like directv  or bell expressview here in north  america  great question evan and thanks for  asking  thanks for watching this video and we'll see you on  the next video  you