Dish Sizes
A common misconception exist about satellite dish sizes. Just because your dish looks simular to your neigbour's, it doesn't mean it really is, trust me!. You see, we recently purchased so-called 60cm dstv satellite dish kit's from the three major supplies and this is what we found...

Anyone more interested on the "parabolic offset antenna" subject, should take a few minutes to read Geoff's explanation on the DStv Forum. Click here and scroll down to "Geoff D" posted at "13:56" on the 8th of October 2010.
Although a little more technical, the explanation on Wikipedia is definitely also worth reading to get a better perspective on the subject.