STLBILL Posted February 8, 2007 Report Posted February 8, 2007 Since I do not have permission to edit after a few minutes... I'll recommend Dish. I've been with them almost 6 years. WEATHER: No problems here at all. Two or three times my signal has gone out and I am literally in the basement and the tornado sirens are blaring. So I am not worried about TV at that time. Your results may vary. I think I am pretty fortunate. My dish has been relocated once thanks to a bitchy neighbor. Covenants say dishes cannot be visible from the road. Much to his dismay I still have good signal. INSTALL: I have a fairly new home and the existing cabling would not work. They replaced it with something bigger I think. RECEIVERS: I have two of them. One PVR and one basic. The PVR has been replaced three times next business day mail at no cost. The bedroom receiver has been replaced once expediently and at no additional cost to me. If this sounds bad I have no complaints. GENERAL: They really work at low prices. A while back one of the stations was having a war with them. They wanted to raise prices and dish refused to pay. It was in the news. When the old price deal was about to expire the station put a banner across the bottom slandering Dish Network. Dish put a black bar across that portion of the screen to cover their message. They then moved their slander scroll to the top of the screen. This kept up for a couple of days and my bill did not change. I am glad Dish stood their ground. Cable keeps going up and up - even for Internet! If you have any questions - ASK. Quote
scooter Posted February 8, 2007 Report Posted February 8, 2007 i have cable and ive been happy with it my house is wired for it so i get in every room no extra boxes or cost. i cant seem to get past the look of those ugly dishes bolted on your house.i see lots of them around my neighborhood and they look like shit. Quote
fox_forma Posted February 8, 2007 Report Posted February 8, 2007 i have cable and ive been happy with it my house is wired for it so i get in every room no extra boxes or cost. i cant seem to get past the look of those ugly dishes bolted on your house.i see lots of them around my neighborhood and they look like shit. One of the major reasons people are switching to a dish set-up is because a lot of cable company's are going all digital soon. I know in my area a basic digital package is around $100. That will get you basically every channel with a dish set-up so why stick with cable. Although its not happening in every area, but thats the main reason here. Quote
csrmel Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Posted February 9, 2007 what the cable company is doing here is raising the rate, and moving all the good channels over to the digital side so you cant watch them with a normal cable package. they basically forcing me to either buy a digital advantage pack and rent a cable box, or stock with normal cable and not have anything good to watch. my cable bill for digital cable is like 85 a month. dish says they will give me all of my current programming plus extras for 62 a month, but that is only for 4 tv's, and i have 6. the 2 extra will cost $160 each for the satellite recievers plus an extra 10a month per room. man im sort of screwed any way i look at it. im seriously thinking of giving up on tv all together. theres too many commercials anyways, and a tivo costs too much to get rid of commercials. Quote
shee4speed Posted February 9, 2007 Report Posted February 9, 2007 Directv all the way.Never ever lost signal in 9 years.Installed myself.But the main reason is I take the receiver from my bedroom and a spare dish to the dunes and walaa,cartoons for kids etc.My .02. Quote
STLBILL Posted February 9, 2007 Report Posted February 9, 2007 ....but that is only for 4 tv's, and i have 6.... I remember when Cable frowned on extra televisions and the evil splitter. Now they switched it all around. man im sort of screwed any way i look at it. im seriously thinking of giving up on tv all together. theres too many commercials anyways, and a tivo costs too much to get rid of commercials. Six televisions seems like a lot to me. Could you not get by with only 4? Technically satellite doesn't limit you to four televisions. Just four different channels at the same time. I am kind of surprised you can find six different channels you want to watch that simultaneously that often. I have the DVR option, about 180 channels and I'll be damned if I can find more than 10-15 hours of TV I like in any 7-day week. Of that 3-5 hours is commercials and gets skipped. Quote
csrmel Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Posted February 9, 2007 well i have a tv in the living room, 1 in each of the 4 bedrooms, and 1 in my office. so i need to have 6 tv's hooked up to cable or satellite. im just pissed about the whole situation i guess. Quote
jesse1004 Posted February 9, 2007 Report Posted February 9, 2007 it says four tv for free but you must read the small print. if you do not have a accesable phone line by at least two of the tvs it 5 extra for each one. (so not phone lines is 10 dollars extra) and also its 5 extra right off the bat for a second reciever. Its a dumb way to do it but they give you two dual tuner recivers that will do 4 tvs all on different pictures. so two tvs will have a reciver and two will not. If your losing signal on rainy or cloudy days you just have a shity install. yes you can order recievers off ebay and put them on your account but be careful because if you buy one that someone is selling and havent paid their bill on it you will have to pay it before activating it. it is possible to spit a reciever to two seperate tvs but you will have the same picture on the both of them. I do suggest dvr if you do decide to go with dish, it is the best invention since sliced bread. I quit doing this shit a year ago just because its impossible trying to explain this shit to every customer. some understand and some dont. if you have any more questiong dont be afraid to ask me. good luck Quote
Kuma Posted February 9, 2007 Report Posted February 9, 2007 I have had satellite for 5 years and never lost signal. I think that the whole lost signal thing is propaganda distributed by the cable company and regurgitated by knuckleheads that have never tried it (satellite) themselves. Personally I won Quote
Snopczynski Posted February 9, 2007 Report Posted February 9, 2007 im thinking about switching from cable tv to the dish network. they include up to 4 recievers for free but i need 6. the extra 2 cost $160 each! im wondering if i can just buy a reciever from ebay for $50 and use that instead of buying the additional recievers from dish? TOO HARD TO CHANNEL SURF, AND THEY WORK NOT SO GREAT IN UNFAIR WEATHER CONDITIONS. Quote
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