I'm about to the end of my 2 yr contract with direct tv, I'm payin $73/mo for tv and I don't personally watch the vast majority of it. TV is streamed through a PVR type system to my xbox

My daughter watches her cartoon channels, my parents are content with Fox news it appears since thats on 3/4 of the time.

I do want speed channel, I do find the ability to watch a few shows on there now and then, but that and the few other channels in that package (direct tv and dish both offer the same channels I want in their 2nd package) don't equal out the cost.

Option 1: Dish tv (save appx $20/mo
Option 2: try the rabbit ear method again which netted 3 local channels, but only if I constantly moved antennae.

Option 3: Netflix (shows and stuff would be cool) but how would I get my daughters cartoon channels and the local news?
Option 4?: I keep hearing about internet tv, but what a bout local channels and live news? it sounds like its purely pre recorded shows only.

 

Hi there. I work for DISH Network. You'd be able to get great savings as a new customer. If you tell me how many rooms you'd be installing service in, whether or not you'd want DVR service, and how many TVs you'd need HD service on, I'd be able to tell you your exact monthly rate (before taxes, of course.)

 

DirecTV is better than Dish. Just pick a package that saves you some money.

 

correct we switched from directv to dish for the savings, dish sucks.

 

We have dish and love it, dish has great picture quality and just as much HD stuff as direct. Personally I wouldn't pay the extra for direct tv and get nothing in return because direct tv offers nothing that interest me that I can't get on dish.

 

Thats where I'm at now, I mean can their service or customer service be any worse than direct?

 

I suppose 3 receivers, 1 hd, no dvr's since two receivers will actually go to back of my hauppauge card, then stream via xbox. I only plan on having 2 tv's, but a possible third.


How is Direct better than Dish? If its morons on the phone I anticipate that, happens every time. I'm almost to the point I enjoy yelling at them, only because I've become irate with some collections agencies calling my moms new phone number looking for the previous owner of that number (for over a year)

 

TV sucks in general. Go with whatever is cheap. Can you not get cable? An extended cable plan plus cable internet (1 meg) is $79 a month here. Same cable plus 3 meg internet is $99.

 

nope, I do not have access to cable out here, I'm too far out of town, I'm a good 15 miles from the closest cable supplied area. I feel Dish is going to be the route for me, since I dont watch tv often, but prefer it to work when I do.

I was thinking I could upgrade my internet and do internet tv, that is the one I do not understand how to get to be what I would enjoy.

 

I've had dish since the 90s, and they are okay, can't say i've liked any telecom/cable company's customer service level. There is one potential time bomb with them though, the lawsuit with tivo over dvr patent violations. They've lost at every stage, and at some point need to man up and just pay tivo (even though I disagree with the premise of the lawsuit), because when an injunction is ordered to disable everyone's dvr on dish, charlie ergen better blink, and cut the check immediately.

The things I do like about them is foreign language (non-spanish) programming, and the ability to opt out of network connectivity/click by click viewing habits sent back to the central office (tivo), although you have to pay extra for that.

 

I have no need for the tivo thing, since my card will record onto my hd, and media center acts very similar to tivo. as long as I can avoid the frivolous bill.