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mete

mete

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I just dumped Time Warner .Here the choice is then one of the satellite providers.Any difference between the two big ones ?
 
I have Direct TV, it's fine, but I think all the cable companies and all the dish providers are about the same. Quick to penalize you if you are late with a payment, and you have to buy a package with 300 channels in order to watch the 3 or 4 stations you like.
 
I dumped Time Warner as well after they took over Insight in my town. The first month they failed to send me a bill and then tried to charge me a late fee for it on the second months bill. Then they had the disagreement with showtime which caused me to miss probably the only reason I had kept cable for as long as I did (love showtime). The final straw was when they raised my bill by nearly $40! I called and wasted hours of my life trying to get it lowered and after them telling me there was nothing that they could do, I told them to keep their cable! It didn't stop there though. Since I had a "package" deal for my internet my new internet price would be $15 higher than before! It also happened to be $15 higher than they were offering new customers. Since there aren't any good internet options in my area other than cable, I had to stick with them. So, I cancelled the internet and got new service in my g/f's name.

I still haven't got new TV service and it's vary rarely that I miss it. The major stuff that I care about I can find online (most times free) and the other stuff has been either replaced with new shows on OTA channels or forgotten about. The only thing I really miss that I can find anywhere else is KY basketball and I hear from co-workers that a lot of those games get blacked out anyway. My suggestion is to ditch TV providers all together. You will save tons of money and find yourself with a lot more free time on your hands to do better things than sitting on the couch, getting fat and watching the so called "reality" crap shows.
 
I've been with DirecTV since the very beginning. I walked into Sears the day they released the Sony receiver (the original RCA receiver was a few months earlier to market, but had a slower processor) and bought the second one of the day. Needless to say, I'm a fan.
 
We used to have dish, now we have direct. I miss dish network actually. I can't say about pricing or channel packages because my parents pay it. (I'm 16) but I can say direct is less reliable than dish. Direct will go out if the wind blows real hard it seems. Dish was also faster with the channel changes and was more user friendly. We live a little in the woods if that changes anything.
 
Dish Network has more/better foreign language programming which you pay extra for, and Direct TV has more/better sports programming which you pay extra for.
 
the dish is the bomb. I had them then my mother in her old age wanted to get direct TV. boy did they suck. all I saw 80% was looking for signal. when my mother passed away I told the dish to get out here and reinstall it. boy I love it to death. now if you know someone that has them then ask them to refer you to them and you both get $50.00 each just for you sigh up with them.
 
I have not paid for TV in over 10 years and don't miss it a bit.
All we have is a digital antenna and we do splurge the 8 bucks a month for Netflix and lucky enough to have a neighbor who let's us use their wifi for that.
 
willc said:
I have not paid for TV in over 10 years and don't miss it a bit.
All we have is a digital antenna and we do splurge the 8 bucks a month for Netflix and lucky enough to have a neighbor who let's us use their wifi for that.
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We switched from direct to fioptics at least when direct went out it was storming , fioptic goes out with no reason Plus fioptics lied to me on the price. When our cantract was up we bought a $10 antenna. My wife orders enough stuf from amazon that the shipping saving pays for prime we get programs and movies from that plus we have hulu plus. I don't use netflix because the adds on yahoo are annoying. you put up an ad that I have to move to do anything on my computer isn't a way to get my busness:thumbdn::mad:
Roy
 
I have fantasized about dumping everything and just going with the free airwaves. 95% of the stuff on tv makes me want to puke. But there is that 5% that keeps me hooked.
 
We actually just recently did dump cable, we only have Internet which provide us a "cable service provider login" so between our smart TV and XBOX with netflix/Hulu ($15/mo) and the channel specific apps and the 25+ digital OTA stuff we don't miss cable at all.
 
It's funny to see people complaining about Direct TV dropping signal. I had that problem with Dish so I switched to Direct and can only remember it dropping signal once in 7 years. It was a pretty bad storm. I like direct much better as well although, I am tempted to drop it altogether since "Dexter" is over with. We almost never watch the premium channels anymore.
 
I've had Dishnetwork for close to 20 years and am satisfied with service and pricing. I did go down to a cheaper package since I don't watch much in the way of reality tv anymore due to how hard they are to follow and watch and favor other programming and dish has a good selection.
 
Cereal_killer said:
We actually just recently did dump cable, we only have Internet which provide us a "cable service provider login" so between our smart TV and XBOX with netflix/Hulu ($15/mo) and the channel specific apps and the 25+ digital OTA stuff we don't miss cable at all.
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We got rid of cable 5-6 years ago and haven't missed it either. The wife and I really don't enjoy just sitting around watching TV anyway. Too many hobbies. Between OTA tv and the netflix/hulu/vudu connection we don't miss anything we care to watch. I've thought a lot recently about getting a FTA dish basically for the novelty of it but haven't really decided one way or the other.
The only real problem with no cable is when the neice and nephew come over, which happens quite a bit in the winter. They are out of their minds without 300+ channels to flip through while never actually watching anything:D.
 
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