Direct Tv

I have it and have been happy. My bill has been exactly what they have said it would be (unlike Comcast that just seemed to change it at will and hoped I didn't notice). Their customer service has always been top notch. I wanted to get a channel for a college football game and they prorated the channel cost for just that day, rather than charging me a whole month for it. Finally, they have NFL Sunday ticket so I can actually watch the 49ers games.

Some people claim they have issues with service cutting out when it rains, but I am up here in the Pacific Northwest where it rains like 300 days a year and the amount of time my dish has cut out due to weather can literally be counted in seconds (over a two year period).

I've had it for around 6 or 7 years, and I've been consistently happy with it. It's easy to change just about anything on your account, and their customer service is awesome.

As far as the rain thing, it was only when it was like torrential downpours that it'd cut out. Basically a thunder storm so bad that you probably wouldn't want your TV on.

I also read somewhere that buffing your dish with RainX once a year can really help if you have weather related service issues.

Wait, you went from cable to verizon for internet that'snotfios?

Mines been ok so far but the one thing I really miss from cable is the on-demand service. Directv you have to download shows/movies when cable you could watch them instantly.

My parents have directv and they have on-demand movies/tv that stream the same as my cable at home. I'm pretty sure they have way more on-demand content than I do.

Directv has some of the best DVRs and gear you can get. Service is solid. I don't have any issues with them what so ever. We have a bulk cable account for our HOA here and I still pay Directv. Says something I guess. Now that comcast here has stepped up their game (HD) and given most of the service fee for comcast is included in our HOA dues we might go back to them as it would be a good bit cheaper than D*. If we did we'd dust off our old Tivo premiere though because the cable company dvrs suck.

Direct TV is notorious for hiking up prices while at the same time taking away channels. I was paying $108 for the package just above the basic channels. I didn't even get Starz, Showtime or HBO..none of those. Also they have terrible costumer service, so I canceled Direct TV and went Satellite instead and I'm glad I did. I get a shitton more HD channels, but I also have HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and Starz and only pay $70. Honestly fuck Direct TV, they're not worth it.

Comcast.. I have comcast business interenet and they're great.. can't stand the residential side of comcast though.

Nostrovia_sl said:

so I canceled Direct TV and went Satellite instead...

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Uh, what?


Anyways, back on topic...

I switched to DirecTV about 6 months ago after being with various cable carriers for the past 15 years(Time Warner and Comcast mainly) and I'm beyond happy. My DirecTV is EXACTLY what they said it would be, down to the penny. The quality of their on-demand service is wholly dependent upon your internet connection. If you have fast service(I had 30mpbs service) you can pretty much stream instantly just like you would on cable. If you have slower internet then you're going to have to buffer for a while or even completely download the show first before watching it.

I live in the midwest so we get some rain, some thunderstorms, high winds, snow(we just got a foot of snow in ~6 hours yesterday) and my service has yet to be interrupted for even a second.

The only thing I can think of that is even remotely negative is that their on-screen channel guide is pretty slow. hit the button, wait a couple seconds for the guide to appear, and scrolling can be a bit slow. You can't really instantly flip channels back and forth real quick if you are switching between 2 ball games or something, the channels take a good 2-5 seconds to appear and start working when you change a channel.

joeboo_sl said:

The only thing I can think of that is even remotely negative is that their on-screen channel guide is pretty slow. hit the button, wait a couple seconds for the guide to appear, and scrolling can be a bit slow. You can't really instantly flip channels back and forth real quick if you are switching between 2 ball games or something, the channels take a good 2-5 seconds to appear and start working when you change a channel.

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That's something that only started in the last year or so. They updated the GUI, or whatever you wanna call it, and it's been doing that ever since.

The on-screen guide is only slow on the DVR I have noticed. On my other HD receivers the speed is fine. Also on the DVR you can't do auto-tune like you can on the other boxes. I'm just annoyed that I can't upgrade to the genie till my contract is up or they want me to pay 300 for it. Fuckers.

Just cancelled my Direct TV service. It was top notch but also cost a lot. I was paying 88 bucks a month.

Since I don't watch that much TV I replaced it with a roku box. I can stream from netflix/amazon/hulu and several other sites...pretty much any show/movie I want. In the end I did the math and I am paying half of what I was with Direct TV and able to watch/start/stop/resume shows as I want. The only downside is I have to wait a day or two for the premium shows (spartacus, game of thrones etc) to show up on Amazon.

I love my directv, had it for 5 years now. Only thing I don't like is the HD fee, which I currently get a credit for, just a pain calling up and asking for it. I dig the whole home DVR. I also have cable but I have that for phone for my alarm and internet, it was cheaper to get a tripleplay but I get locals only and I'm using a media center PC with tuners for the cable.

I'm considering when my wife and I move to our new place dropping DirecTV just because between DirecTV and cable I'm paying $270 a month and I can get a cable card tuners and my existing media center and ceton echo extenders and pay less.