I just got married and moved into my wife's house. I got our first cable bill from Charter and was apalled. $130/month for HD DVR. I have decided to make the switch to satellite. A couple friends at work have raved about DirecTV. Anyone have any thoughts on DirecTV vs. DishNetwork? From what I have seen on their websites, I have not seen that they offer ESPNU HD.
DirecTV or DishNetwork
- Thread starter MD Dawg
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I used to have dish network at the office and directv at the house and I prefered directv. However, I think that was due to familiarity more than anything.</p>
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I used to have dish network at the office and directv at the house and I prefered directv. However, I think that was due to familiarity more than anything.</p>
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I pay less with cable plus internet. Of course when you're picking your plan they show the introductory rate only. The Premier package is $109, which does not include HD Access, HD Extra Pack, DVR Service, or even repairs if your boxes break. That's extra. So it is $127 a month with no internet. That actually sucks bad.
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because Dish had local channels. No difference except for that. The cost of the NFL ticket is too much for my blood. It's really the same. I'd go with whoever offered local channels, but that may not be important to you.
There are a number of things like the Basketball package and if you are interested in the NFL and MLB packages. Dish is also having some serious financial trouble because of a botched satellite launch (it's up there but will only last 10 years instead of the planned 30 years) and a bad loss in court to TiVo (I guess you can't just rip off people's patents and get away with it). There is actually a decent chance that they will have to shut off all their DVRs one of these days. I would be ok with cable if the DVRs they use weren't such steaming piles of ****, the programming is pretty much the same as DirecTV depending on your provider.
DirecTV promises to be more stable than Dish in the long run though.
DirecTV promises to be more stable than Dish in the long run though.
The price of NFL Sunday Ticket pisses me off. I'm still super pissed from a few years ago when they 1) removed HD coverage from Sunday Ticket, 2) increased the price of Sunday Ticket, and 3) made HD Sunday Ticket a $100 add-on to the overpriced Sunday Ticket.MSUbravesfan said:
I've had both and prefer Directv. I have HD and the local chanels in the Jackson market are to go HD in October. Directv seemed to stay on better in severe storms and I do get the Sunday Ticket and Center Ice for Hockey: that's really why I switched. I do believe that Dish is a little cheaper.
...uses 3 satellites for non-HD reception, and uses something like 14 satellites for HD reception. Having HD does mean better storm reception, because of more satellites. Usually the DirectTV Channel listing has both the HD Channels and non-HD channels listed together. If there is a storm and you lose the HD Channel, you can switch to the non-HD channel and still get reception. I have never subscribed to Dish Network so can't speak to their service, but the service department for DirectTV is superb.catvet said:
I currently have Dish and have been pleased with it. I recently learned that U-verse is available to me but I have not yet compared it with Dish or talked to anyone who has it, so I don't know how it compares to either Dish or DirecTV. If this is available to you, it might be worth looking into as well before you decide.
I pay an average of $130 a month for Direct TV, a very good package, extras for the Gameplan (saw I think 10 MSU games last year) and Mega March Madness. I have been very happy with Direct. When we finished our home they gave us free moving and hookup of our two TVs, which I thought was a good deal. They also have been very responsive to phone calls I have made regarding service (granted, most of our outages are due to snow which is not a problem in MS).
I get basically every single channel possible, plus the fastest internet possible for less than that.
you live where they have laid fiber to your house though. Standard, they use copper wire from the street to your house, but that degrades the signal, and caps the total bandwidth pretty low. Which means if one person is doing a lot on the internet, and someone else is on the phone, the tv signal can get worse. If they run fiber though, that's not really a problem.
You can only watch HD on one TV at a time though, I believe. But the record four shows at once thing is cool.
You can only watch HD on one TV at a time though, I believe. But the record four shows at once thing is cool.