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Do you have a high speed internet connection provided by a cable company? If so, it might be cheaper to get a good ATI card with a tuner and run it thru your computer.
I've had DTV, and it was OK, but I get a better price with cable. Local HDTV cannels are actually HD. They aren't on DTV.
I've had DTV, and it was OK, but I get a better price with cable. Local HDTV cannels are actually HD. They aren't on DTV.
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Have had Dish for three years and no problems with the equipment or customer service. Only problem is during very heavy snow or rain the signal might be lost for a short time...
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No cable in the office park. I'm leaning towards Dish but I've still got a little research to do. Thanks to all for their input. -DT
I had Direct TV from 2000-2002 and Dish from 2002ish until recently.
All other things being equal (I can't claim to have had a universal experience) the Direct was pointed through an oak grove with one massive oak basically in teh way. Nevertheless, in two years we had one half hour interruption during a massive storm with gale force winds.
The Dish had an unobstructed view and yet never failed to interrupt between 12:10 AM and 12:30 AM for a stretch of about five minutes. Sometimes closer to 12:10 and sometimes closer to 12:30. We also lost signal during heavy rains and storms, sometimes only for a couple minutes, sometimes it became effectively unusable for a couple hours. I wasn't pleased.
So in the regard of performance I personally experienced, Direct was far superior.
We got the Dish because for the programming we wanted, it was slightly cheaper and had no contract. It was frustrating with the service outages, but every time I considered switching something dissuaded me. Until recently, the customer service at Dish was quite good, but then it good really bad really quickly and I'd had enough.
Again though that's only my personal experience, YMMV. One of my friends had virtually the opposite experience.
All other things being equal (I can't claim to have had a universal experience) the Direct was pointed through an oak grove with one massive oak basically in teh way. Nevertheless, in two years we had one half hour interruption during a massive storm with gale force winds.
The Dish had an unobstructed view and yet never failed to interrupt between 12:10 AM and 12:30 AM for a stretch of about five minutes. Sometimes closer to 12:10 and sometimes closer to 12:30. We also lost signal during heavy rains and storms, sometimes only for a couple minutes, sometimes it became effectively unusable for a couple hours. I wasn't pleased.
So in the regard of performance I personally experienced, Direct was far superior.
We got the Dish because for the programming we wanted, it was slightly cheaper and had no contract. It was frustrating with the service outages, but every time I considered switching something dissuaded me. Until recently, the customer service at Dish was quite good, but then it good really bad really quickly and I'd had enough.
Again though that's only my personal experience, YMMV. One of my friends had virtually the opposite experience.
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I've had Direct TV for three and a half years now and I can think of three times that I've lost service, and only one of those times for more than ten minutes. And I live in the middle of the forest with no "optimal" spot to put the dish.
I'm very happy with it and don't ever want cable again.
I'm very happy with it and don't ever want cable again.