Dish vs Directv
I, myself have never had anything but Directv, going on 15 years and have visited enough friends that had Dish, Comcast, and others and I've saw enough, or should say havent saw enough to make me ever change to anything but Directv. But I have probably a dozen friends that have made the swap from one to the other. Pretty much every one of then have the same opinion. The ones that have swapped from Dish to Directv are all much much happier with Direct than with Dish. Their only negative was that direct was more expensive, but its a case of you get what you pay for, none of them have even considered swapping back under any circumstance.
4 of 5 of those friends swapped from Directv to Dish for whatever reason, and they all admit that their current setup falls way short to the service/picture they had with Directv and regret the swap.. A couple have even swapped back to Directv once their contracts were up, while none that swapped from Dish to Directv swapped back.
One of the sales pitch Dish uses is the new DVR that will let you record up to 6 shows at one time. My thing is, with my Directv I can record 2 shows and dont find time to watch a third of shows I record, who the 17 has time to watch 6 shows recorded at a time. I dont know weather affects Dish, but in the first handful of years I had Direct anything more than a hard drizzle and it was time to pick out a DVD or turn the playstation on. I dont know what they did to improve that problem but now it takes a pretty nasty thunderstorm with very heavy rain to completely interrupt service. Some channels are worse than others, HD movie channels will lose signal due to less than rain than most stations, while HD local stations almost take a monsoon to knock them out and non HD channels pretty much never get knocked out anymore.
