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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 955444  United States11/14/2012 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 8625162 United States11/14/2012 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | directv seems to be overall a better and more economical choice. My mom just went through a switch from Directv to Dish because they promised all this whole home dvr this and that. When apples were compared to apples, she would have eneded up paying more for dish to get what she had with directv. She still ended up going with dish, with some reduced services but got the whole home dver hopper, which she seems to enjoy. Dish doesnt carry channels like AMC, so if you like breaking bad or the walking dead, you're SOL. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27741990  Poland11/14/2012 02:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27666882 United States11/14/2012 04:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've had both Dish and Direct and always liked Dish better. My mom used to have Direct and I got more stations than she did for less $$$$. Another thing I didn't like is that we were all the time losing our signal when he had Direct. We recently moved and hubby decided to go cheap this time. We don't watch much tv anyway, so we're just going with Netflix so we can watch old sitcom reruns, which is what we always ended up watching when we had satellite anyway. Of course, he had to order the Big Ten Network too, but it's still way cheaper than satellite or cable. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27302733 United States11/14/2012 04:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
sunspotkiller  User ID: 1332188 United States11/14/2012 04:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Direct TV - Has a better interface and cleaner looking menu. Prices are higher. Also you need more signal strength than you do with Dish. Dish - Cheaper, need less signal strength & overall better value. Not as pretty as Direct TV Dish has AMC as of a week or so ago. Last Edited by sunspotkiller on 11/14/2012 04:10 PM sunspotkiller When you judge someone else, It doesn't define who they are, It defines who you are. Be love! “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” |
| Ballin on Your Tax Dollars User ID: 9927807 United States11/14/2012 04:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 12418464 United States11/14/2012 04:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27741990 Poland11/14/2012 04:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NONE, you need to detox from any form of televised entertainment, enlighten yourself, read more, utilize the internet, and stop THROWING AWAY good money. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12418464  You are a sheep too if you use the internet. I'm sick and tired of all these fucking posers on an electronic medium telling me how I should be awake like them ang avoid all electronic mediums. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25293245 United States11/14/2012 04:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| 071676 User ID: 26630358 United States11/14/2012 04:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I had Direct TV for a few years and was never satisfied, so I switched to Dish. I have found Dish to be better at delivering digital TV, and on the pricing. For what I was paying Direct, I now get over twice the channels plus several of the special movie channels as well. Based off of that, I would go with Dish. However, any choice you make, make it off of what you want, not what someone else tells you. You are paying for it, so it should be what you want. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24473407 United States11/14/2012 04:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Abi ~ User ID: 25045778 United States11/14/2012 04:54 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Direct tv...simpler, more user friendly...plus, dish is messed up...they lie to you when you order installation...luckily, the techs who came to install it advised us to call before they started because they knew we had not been told the truth...you have to have hoppers and joeys everywhere unless you like watching the exact same thing in all rooms..it is a mess...they are a generic, a$$ backward version of direct tv... there are some pluses but the negatives far outweigh them...wish we had never switched...;( ^^only reason we did was because we wanted to watch the Olympics and dtv did not have local stations for our area, even if we paid for them..(that is the only negative I had about dtv) You accept the love you think you deserve~~~ Love cannot live where there is no trust~~~ Truth has no temperature~~~ Love like it's never gonna hurt~~~ Have no regrets~~~ |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27345908 United States11/14/2012 05:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Resister User ID: 669410 United States11/14/2012 05:11 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been happy with DISH for years. "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. " - Thomas Jefferson in 1787 |
| Abi ~ User ID: 25045778 United States11/14/2012 05:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Raymantheheretic User ID: 25274207 United States11/14/2012 06:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | +1 Better picture than either Dish or Direct, local broadcasts/news, no service disruptions and it's free. Unless you live in one of those rare isolated areas with little to no reception an antenna will provide all the programming you'll seriously ever need. Throw in Netflix and or xfinity and both of those 'D' tvs become an absolute joke. Worth looking into at the very least. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 955444 United States11/15/2012 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| oriole User ID: 13847332 United States11/15/2012 10:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've had them both. I started w/ Dish (10 yrs), and just recently switched to Direct. I wish I NEVER signed a contract with Direct. Their customer service SUCKS, the worst ever. Too many times the transmission has gone down -- once the notice on the TV screen said, "Sometimes excessive sunshine will cause transmission difficulties.." my husb and I looked at eachother and burst out laughing..what a bunch of BS Also, Dish has just upgraded their infrastructure to a type of cellphone transmission/receiver setup (no more wires). I have no experience with that, but yesterday after 4 phone calls I finally got a live person who told me that to cancel my contract would be $400. Bollocks. |
| WAKEUPAMERICA01 User ID: 24094200 United States11/15/2012 10:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Op you don't need either one of them. Get rid of the paid for programming, deprogram your brain of all the propaganda that you have exposed yourself and learn to think outside of the box. My family has been without cable or satellite for over a year and it has been wonderful to say the least. If you must have tv get a antenna with hd, digital capabilities to at least stay op top of local events. You do know that you can get tv over the interwebz right. WAKE UP AMERICA "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776 "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777 "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President. "A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, [79 years now in 2012] freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought into force by statutes of national emergency." |
| One Of My Names User ID: 4928432 United States11/15/2012 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Direct TV has a lot of the same things as Dish, but over all Dish is leading as far as technology is concerned. AMC is back on Dish now, but with both providers you have the risk of losing certain channels because of contract agreements with all stations. It's usually local channels that are effected by this. Usually all those are worked out within a month. |
| SpookyWatcher User ID: 23559912 United States11/15/2012 10:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I've had them both. I started w/ Dish (10 yrs), and just recently switched to Direct. I wish I NEVER signed a contract with Direct. Their customer service SUCKS, the worst ever. Too many times the transmission has gone down -- once the notice on the TV screen said, "Sometimes excessive sunshine will cause transmission difficulties.." my husb and I looked at eachother and burst out laughing..what a bunch of BS Quoting: oriole Also, Dish has just upgraded their infrastructure to a type of cellphone transmission/receiver setup (no more wires). I have no experience with that, but yesterday after 4 phone calls I finally got a live person who told me that to cancel my contract would be $400. Bollocks. My vote is for Directv. I had Dish for many years and I (like a previous poster) paid extra to get out of the contract. First with dish I always had signal problems and pixelation. So I would call tech support and it was always someone from India named richie Cunningham. And the language barrier made it near impossible to truly get any real help. Then when service tech came out... They would say nothing was wrong and charge me for the service call. (Even though I paid extra for the service stuff) Switched to Directv. And have had them for 4 years now and never a single problem. Well actually once about 3 months after installation started getting pixelation. Called them up. They came out and said the antenna settled re-aligned it for free and it has been working great ever since. Windy days...rainy days...doesn't matter. Works perfectly. The final reason for me to have directv instead and for me is the biggest reason.... AMC and Walking Dead!! Don't get that on dish. SpookyWatcher |
| sunspotkiller User ID: 1332188 United States11/15/2012 11:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh and what about high speed internet?? same quality?? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 955444 I forgot to mention that. You're better off calling the cable company and getting your internet through them. Much much faster! sunspotkiller When you judge someone else, It doesn't define who they are, It defines who you are. Be love! “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24392638 United States11/15/2012 11:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | +1 Better picture than either Dish or Direct, local broadcasts/news, no service disruptions and it's free. Unless you live in one of those rare isolated areas with little to no reception an antenna will provide all the programming you'll seriously ever need. Throw in Netflix and or xfinity and both of those 'D' tvs become an absolute joke. Worth looking into at the very least. Where would I find info on antenna? |
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