Author Topic: DirectTV, Dish Network, or ? (Read 1107 times)

funkedup · « **Reply #30 on:** January 02, 2003, 04:57:09 PM »

Yeah I concur. Digital cable out here is ASS. It's way expensive, the video quality is nothing special, and none of the features like Dolby Digital are supported by our cable company.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #31 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:01:31 PM »

by the time our local cable company gets to the point where they are in Fla., hell will freeze over

funkedup · « **Reply #32 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:08:33 PM »

True. It's worth getting a dish just so you can stop dealing with the cable companies. Incredibly poor customer service everywhere I've lived in the US.

28sweep · « **Reply #33 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:44:19 PM »

Every sorry as$ Canidian Looser that works in my office (they cross the border to work because they can't get work in their own country) brags about stealing Direct TV. Every single one. They still steal it.....

Pongo · « **Reply #34 on:** January 02, 2003, 07:24:58 PM »

Thats why we will always win..
and you will always loose..

or.
The only way to get NFL sunday ticket on a satalite in canada is to pirate Direct TV. You can get it on digital cable but who wants that crap.

You didnt think we watch Canadian Football did you?

bowser · « **Reply #35 on:** January 03, 2003, 06:52:42 PM »

Cable companies abused their monopolies for years and now that people have a choice, they're paying for it. Cable will have to have a vastly superior product before I will ever go back from satellite. Can't see it happening in this area.

bowser

Regular · « **Reply #36 on:** January 04, 2003, 08:52:16 AM »

Tanya Memme!!! DISH CHANNEL 201!!!

Wlfgng · « **Reply #37 on:** January 06, 2003, 02:00:51 PM »

lol Pongo

Ripsnort · « **Reply #38 on:** January 06, 2003, 02:13:51 PM »

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Originally posted by milnko
Livin' out in the boonies, in the shade of a mountain, along the Columbia River, I have few options when it comes to TV, we started out on Primestar, then onto DirectTV which bought 'em out.

We've had DirectTV for about 3 or four years I think, and I've never had any problems.

Wish we had cable though, then maybe I could get a faster internet connection.

These old phone systems out here bounce back and forth from analog to digital, and everytime that happens line noise gets injected.

My modem is a 56k, but I rarely get better than 26.6 connect speed because of the bouncing back and forth.

Ditto, except "The White River" instead of Columbia. We pay a price for a piece of paradise.

Good news is recently there was a phone service guy hooking up some big wires on our junction box... we're "suppose" to be getting DSL out in our neck of the woods soon, but I heard this two years ago as well.

Curval · « **Reply #39 on:** January 06, 2003, 02:14:52 PM »

No brainer..whichever has the best porn channels.

LePaul · « **Reply #40 on:** January 06, 2003, 02:16:51 PM »

Another vote for Dish Network

My ex-gf had Direct TV, good grief, the guide screen was enough to make you go nuts.

I'm paying $39 a month and have the major stations, etc. No HBOs or movie channels since I am not home enough to warrant it.

Did the autopay thing and check it online. Pretty sharp.

Now, back to channel 195

Wanker · « **Reply #41 on:** January 06, 2003, 02:18:21 PM »

I told my cable company to take a hike over a year ago(except for the cable modem connection, of course), and went to Direct-TV. Absolutely love it!

Words cannot describe how good it felt to ditch that non-customer oriented cable company. They have the monopoly in my region of Minnesota, and they know it. Their customer service was next to non-existent.

Eagler · « **Reply #42 on:** January 06, 2003, 03:11:19 PM »

So ...

who has a zapped card??

reminds me of the old M-35 OAK boxes ppl uses to cram cards into to pull wiper off contact or fish out and cut gnd wire to defeat scramble

Wlfgng · « **Reply #43 on:** January 06, 2003, 03:33:31 PM »

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Ditto, except "The White River" instead of Columbia.

you can add the "Roaring Fork" to that list...

Nifty · « **Reply #44 on:** January 06, 2003, 03:49:54 PM »

hmm...

you guys got me thinking about DirectTV. I might just go with that in the new house. The owners before me had DirectTV, and the RJ-6 is still run all through the house. It'd be a helluva lot easier to just ditch digital cable (which isn't all that great as you guys said, especially when I get the widescreen HDTV later this year) and use the ONE cable line in the house for cable modem. It'll cost me a bit more for cable access as I'd no longer subscribe to their TV service... but if the quality on the widescreen is better, then it'd be worth it.

question for you all with DirectTV. How do black colors look on DirectTV? They pixelate like hell on the digital cable and it really detracts from watching some movies...

My parents have the Dish Network. I like it for the most part, but I can't stand the on screen guide. go more than a couple of hours ahead and it has to download the info from the satellite, which takes like 10 minutes for some reason.

Cable guide goes a week in the future with minimal (maybe 30 seconds) delays.