Dish network vs direct tv

[destined2race 10+ year member]

I had dish for a few years, had cable the last two years and just switched to Direct TV. Dish was ok but no NFL total package (only way i can watch all the games i want) and they wanted to put two satellites on my roof when we bought our house. Cable was good, never really any outages or no weather interference but lack of channels for the price. We had one dvr and could only watch it on that tv. they wanted $15 for every extra DVR. DirectTV i can now record on the one DVR and watch it anywhere. ANd also got the 4 HD receivers as compared to the one with cable.

I kept my cable company for internet as there the fastest in the country.(at least by a few sources anyways). You can get 100mb speed through them and 15mb is there base package.

In short tho i was paying about 120(about 70/mo of that for the tv part) thro cable for 1 HD/DVR and about 100 channels. Now with Direct i have 1dvr(watchable anywhere), 4 HD receivers and about 250 channels for the same price. Do have the eye sore satellite on my roof now tho...

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, ATT lost a buttload in the failed takeover of T-Mobile(so glad that failed) so they're passing that cost to their customers.

no they are not

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

also uverse runs on fiber to the prem

 

[jdawg90 10+ year member]

my mom had some serious problems with dish network... like them lying about the contract

 

[slim2fattycake 10+ year member]

what's this hacking deal? lol.

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

i miss the old days of cable, where they tried to scramble the porn. every once in a while you could see a tit or something

 

[esmokah 10+ year member]

Sometimes the **** comes through a tv with a good QAM tuner. I hooked up this one guys tv, autoscanned the channels and as i was flipping through bam hardcore action right in my face! Dude was happy as ****!

 

[jdawg90 10+ year member]

i miss the old days of cable, where they tried to scramble the porn. every once in a while you could see a tit or something

lol, i remember that

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

my mom had some serious problems with dish network... like them lying about the contract

them are some crooked b@stards

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Direct TV IMHO is better. I have been using them for the last year and have had Dish and Time Warner/Armstrong.

Direct does have the most HD channels and also has the best picture quality. Trumps cable......

Prices are cool the 1st year, but **** the 2nd year, if in a contract.

Dish is the worse on layout of their UI and their HD Boxes **** and are problematic....least when I had them they were. That and they constantly cut out in bad weather. My Direct TV cuts out, but no where near Dish.....Fawk Dish!

 

[brandinooooo 10+ year member]

Neither. Any tv involving satellites **** horribly when the weather isn't good.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

Neither. Any tv involving satellites **** horribly when the weather isn't good.

That's a complete myth. In the almost 2 years I've had my satellite I believe I've lost the signal a total of 3 times and that's been for less than 5 minutes.

 

[brandinooooo 10+ year member]

That's a complete myth. In the almost 2 years I've had my satellite I believe I've lost the signal a total of 3 times and that's been for less than 5 minutes.

Which do you have? I've had dtv and satellite. Last night there was a thunderstorm here and the direct tv went out for half an hour. (Selmer/Savannah, TN)

 

[AlterEgo99 5,000+ posts]

Been a Directv customer since 1995...stick with Directv bro, ain't nothin' like it. Dish sucks.