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02-27-2007, 01:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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I recently did some reseach on providers. If you have HD and want the a lot of HD programming dish network is the way to go, and it's roughly the same price as direct TV or cox. I'm switching once I buy my new TV.
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02-27-2007, 02:15 PM
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: On The Edge!
Posts: 443
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I have the dish too and it is awesome, 30 HD channels and more coming! Never lost the signal yet due to adverse weather or anything and I have the total package with all the channels available and it still kicks cables a$$. I only keep cable for the internet ... I pulled all the cable tv wires off my house so I only have cable as a bill "NO" signal coming in for the tele's.
Can't beat dish!
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Insanity is a long and winding road ... I think I finally made it there.
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02-27-2007, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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thumbs down
i have not been satisfied at all... with direct TV every time the clouds get thick the signal gets all busted up.  nothing gets thru
like this weekend we had a three inch snow storm...we had all the old tapes out.....and it usually means a trip to block buster.
the thing that pisses me off too is that they want $77.00 bucks
just to come out to your house....
i'm planning on switching to something else. i hate it. |
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02-27-2007, 05:51 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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I have it and it is good most of the year, until the trees are really full in the yard...
MAKE sure you have a direct shot of the southern sky where the dish will be pointing.....if hindered at all...you'll have problems
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02-27-2007, 07:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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Ive had Directv for 6 years now and really like it 99% of the time. I finally had the tech come out to re-allign the dish, i installed it myself. I cant remeber the last time i lost signal, never had a problem with snow, jsut rain so spring can be iffy. My dish is 90' from the house mounted on a pretty small tree about chest high. Pretty much the last place you want a dish. 64.99 a month gets all the basic stuff plus HBO. One thing i like about it is that over the past 6 years the price only went up twice and it was only a couple bucks. IF you go with it i would suggest ya pony up the 5.99 a month for the service plan. Or if you decide to go without it you can order the service plan, have the tech come out and cancel the next month, i just never remembered to cancel it.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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02-28-2007, 08:42 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Raven it's not them it's where your dish is and what it has for a horizon shot. Raise it up, move it clear of trees etc and it will work pisser. I have direct tv and can count on one hand how many times its gone out due to wx, was like that at the old house also. If you get a really strong cell passing thru it can go out for a few minutes but it passes pretty quick.
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Originally Posted by Raven
i have not been satisfied at all... with direct TV every time the clouds get thick the signal gets all busted up. nothing gets thru
like this weekend we had a three inch snow storm...we had all the old tapes out.....and it usually means a trip to block buster.
the thing that pisses me off too is that they want $77.00 bucks
just to come out to your house....
i'm planning on switching to something else. i hate it. |
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02-28-2007, 09:26 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,164
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I've had DirecTV for a year. I forgot what they told me my exact signal strength was when they installed it, but it's in the high 90% range. I've only lost signal when a very strong T-storm cell is directly in line with the receiver. Twice in a year, I believe, and for just minutes. Snow doesn't seem to bother it.
Only negative is that I don't get the Providence channels, and I don't get the local conditions portion of the Weather Channel broadcasts.
I also don't get Bourne's local access channel, but I can live without the live feed of the Selectmen's meetings   |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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03-02-2007, 09:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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what about internet service? If you keep the cable for internet it is expensive. Sat. internet is not that great esp on upload. I would like more HD but I don't want to pay for both services. I am hoping for phone service for the triple play, I had that with cox when I lived in RI and it was great. I had 3 phone lines, a fax, 3 TV's and internet in every room for 100/mo. It worked great too. That might be because a Cox exec lived in my hood but it was great.
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03-03-2007, 12:00 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,164
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Comcast gets about 45 bucks a month for internet-only cable.
You can bundle DirecTV with Verizon, if you can live with DSL instead of cable for broadband service--or if DSL is available in your area.
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