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Direct TV or The Dish Network

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THEWOOD;1693440; said:
I pay 135/month for my DirecTV. That is the top package with HD and another receiver in the bedroom, including every single movie channel they offer(HBO, Showtime, etc.).

I do get the Ticket in the fall but you must add on the RedZone package or whatever it is called. Its the only way to get the games in HD. My bill sky rockets for those 4 months to about 300/month. I think it is awesome to have the tickets, I seriously do not move off the couch on Sundays.

In regards to other programming, I get all the fox sports channels (when they are not blacked out due to baseball games). This like jlb said allows me to see out of market Big12, CUSA, BigEast and Pac10 games. Also they do extra things for special sporting events. Take for example the Masters two weeks ago. I had 4 channels of Masters coverage on DirecTV...all in HD. They would have a feature group, amen corner, national feed, and another random channel. They do this for Tennis and they used to do it for MarchMadness but CBS but the stop to that this year. There is also the DirecTV sports MIX channel which has about 6-8 channels all up on your screen showing various sporting events.

I personally would never go back to cable again. I have had DirecTV for over 3 years now and am VERY satisfied with not only the television service but also customer service.

Forgot to add I get the BigTen network and the alternate channels. Sometimes they will have two games on at the same time, very nice feature.
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DAMN - I hope you have about 4 plasmas hung on the wall to enjoy all of that at once. I'm jealous. Not of your $300 bill, but of all the sports channels.
 
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reagdog;1693444; said:
DAMN - I hope you have about 4 plasmas hung on the wall to enjoy all of that at once. I'm jealous. Not of your $300 bill, but of all the sports channels.
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hunt on slickdeals for a nice 24-28" PC monitor w/ HDMI for about $300. They look better than the budget LCD HDTVs (which almost all look terrible) and are cheaper as well. Put em on little ledges and you could relocate them in a house.
 
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NFL Network & FX are two very good channels for people like me who don't pay for movie channels or premium sports. I'd hate to lose that from my basic package like I would if I switched to Dish. Lifetime is a pretty big plus for the female population in america.
Also, the HD DVR is larger (at least when we switched a year ago) through Dish.
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That's a fairly obsolete problem. I think mine holds like 40 hours or so of HD, and it's a couple years old.

However, comcast still has some painfully small hard-drives on their HD DVRs. My dad can barely keep any recordings on there without deleting something he hasn't watched yet.
 
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jwinslow;1693450; said:
NFL Network & FX are two very good channels for people like me who don't pay for movie channels or premium sports. I'd hate to lose that from my basic package like I would if I switched to Dish. Lifetime is a pretty big plus for the female population in america.
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Second that - plus I'll give them some loyalty for being quick to roll out Big Ten Network.
jwinslow;1693450; said:
That's a fairly obsolete problem. I think mine holds like 40 hours or so of HD, and it's a couple years old.

However, comcast still has some painfully small hard-drives on their HD DVRs. My dad can barely keep any recordings on there without deleting something he hasn't watched yet.
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On the D*TV HD-DVRs it is also a breeze to add an expansion hard drives - which are a pretty minor outlay these days. At least until the renminbi gets correctly valued.
 
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BuckBackHome;1693445; said:
Also, the HD DVR is larger (at least when we switched a year ago) through Dish.
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My old one finally crapped out a while back (not quite a year ago?) and DirecTV not only came out to replace it with their best model at no cost (well, I did have the $6/month protection plan), they also re-did the connectors outside and ran new cables from the dishes to the connectors for nothing. They had three guys come out for the job, were there almost a full hour, and it cost me jack shit. Oh, the DVR looks like it can hoold about 80 hours of HD content (I have 4+ hours of HD recorded right now and it takes up 5% of disk space).
 
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