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Post by xzi on May 12, 2011 16:09:31 GMT -5
It's also DIRECTV HD Channel 286 in their lowest $29/mo "Family" Package
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Post by xzi on Apr 19, 2011 8:22:29 GMT -5
We are the lucky ones right now. I'm on vacation in VA and we are staying with relatives near DC. They have FiOS TV and are still on IMG 1.8. They also have the older model DVR and STB. They are also paying a higher rate. For TV/Phone (they get a T1 line equivalent with their HOA fees) with a DVR and 4 STBs, they are paying $140 a month. Wait til you see what you'll be paying after the promos are up. There is no bigger bait-and-switch than Verizon FiOS service. Waaay worse than TWC once the honeymoon is over.
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Post by xzi on Apr 8, 2011 12:28:21 GMT -5
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Post by xzi on Apr 7, 2011 12:48:27 GMT -5
The guys over at the AVS Forum have been compiled a master list of which cable and satellite providers are carrying which HD channel. You can view it at on their site. You get a nice grid of the channels, with columns for the usual suspects. I would have posted the list here, but they do not allow it with written permission. That list has its issues too--- such as listing "NFL Sunday Ticket" and "MLB Extra Innings" as 1 HD channel when it's all of them, which with the Sports Pack is another 30+ full-time HD channels and one of THE main reasons someone chooses DIRECTV over another provider. Then of course the whole "does linear PPV count?" argument, which brings DIRECTV and Dish to almost 200 channels in their marketing
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Post by xzi on Apr 6, 2011 21:43:42 GMT -5
I'm so jealous I'd be interested to know what someone's full bill is after taxes and fees once they finally get it. My TWC bill with JUST basic cable and internet is about $125-130 dollars. This fios looks like a steal. I'm curious about the taxes myself. TWC the taxes were ridiculous and DIRECTV is $0--when comparing prices the taxes always get left out when people are comparing the two but it's a pretty big difference.
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Post by xzi on Apr 6, 2011 9:06:25 GMT -5
What babies. The irony is if they'd spend 1/2 the time and money they spend on lobbying stuff like this into innovation and infrastructure maybe they'd actually have a product people didn't want to ditch so badly.
They should stop worrying so much about what everyone else is doing and figure out how to not have HD picture quality worse than DISH network's and prices higher than DIRECTV's.
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Post by xzi on Apr 1, 2011 15:37:23 GMT -5
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Post by xzi on Apr 1, 2011 10:26:11 GMT -5
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Post by xzi on Mar 29, 2011 22:59:23 GMT -5
Sounds like the fight DIRECTV has with Comcast--which hopefully ends the same way for those in Philly that have been getting screwed for years now.
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Post by xzi on Mar 29, 2011 17:42:26 GMT -5
Verizon doesn't have MSG or MSG plus Hd anywhere. Cablevision witheld the channels bc verizon is in direct competition w cablevisions systems in downstate NY. Believe there is a lawsuit pending concerning it. I figured it was something like that.
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Post by xzi on Mar 28, 2011 14:29:42 GMT -5
Haha I'm drooling over those upload speeds, I work at a web hosting company in Clifton park and we get 75MBs download but only 10 to 15 MBs up from time earner. Time Warner Business Class Roadrunner or Time Warner Telecom? Two different providers. We have twtelecom and have 150up/150down but that's a whole different ball of wax.
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Post by xzi on Mar 28, 2011 14:26:24 GMT -5
None of the MSGs are in HD? Really? I get all 5 of them (3 in HD) on DIRECTV... sounds like no local HD hockey on FIOS I guess.... hope they fix that.
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Post by xzi on Mar 8, 2011 22:13:10 GMT -5
An update, these are now in HD.
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Post by xzi on Mar 7, 2011 12:52:33 GMT -5
1Mbps up. LAME again, $20 more. Nicely done TW.
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Post by xzi on Mar 6, 2011 18:04:36 GMT -5
On DIRECTV earlier it was a slate about "solar flares in spring and fall can interrupt signal" on both ESPN and ESPN2 for a bit earlier (not consumer's dishes, but ESPN's presumably since I had a signal).
Maybe it was related to that.
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