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Post by macUser on Feb 23, 2008 14:05:52 GMT -5
On another thread, uzi asked
"I'd like to know, too, how many other DIRECTV people we have here. I am definitely one, but I feel alone."
So if you use DTV, how about saying so ... that way we can get an idea of how many here do use it. Maybe admin will pin this at the top of the board.
I have been a DTV subscriber for about 7 years. I have always been happy with it. I have never called with a tech problem and called once for a billing question. Now that the locals are HD they have everything I need.
I did subscribe to, and enjoyed, NFL Sunday Ticket for several years but the price got up to more than I wanted to pay and cancelled.
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Post by bruces on Feb 24, 2008 17:55:31 GMT -5
I have been a DirecTV customer since they purchased Primestar, sometime in the early nineties.
I currently have a HR10-250 Tivo based HD DVR and a HR20-700 HD DVR. Both can record OTA, SD channels and all MPEG2 based HD channels. The HR20-700 can record MPEG4 based channels as well.
I also am a Time Warner customer for which I use a Tivo S3 DVR. Since Time Warner has decided to implement SDV, whether or not I remain their customer depends on which of the following happens first.
If the external adapter that is supposed to allow the S3 to receive SDV is released before FIOS TV service is allowed in my area, I may remain with Time Warner, otherwise I will switch to FIOS.
As far as Time Warner's scare tactics about rain interrupting DirecTV service, I lose signal a couple times a year on DirecTV, but I lose Time Warner service at least twice as often.
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Post by yuppers519 on Mar 1, 2008 15:26:29 GMT -5
I am a directv subscriber. I have all the hd channels. i upgraded to HD october 1st, and since that time out of all the storms thunder, rain, sleet, freezing rain, snow, heavy snow, etc, etc. I have NOT lost reception at all. So where time warner comes up with that is beyond me.
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Post by xzi on Mar 1, 2008 15:41:59 GMT -5
My experience is rain and snow never cause loss of service. Snow piling on the dish or LNB, though, can. You need a really sticky snow, like the one we get last week, before you start to lose service. I've read spraying the dish with PAM cooking spray every fall works all winter. I haven't had the need to care, I have hour and hours of DVR stuff that I never watch anyway  |
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Post by capejoe on Mar 18, 2008 7:43:16 GMT -5
I bought my first DTV equipment at Nobody Beats the WIZ so... I've been with DTV a long time.
I have had very little down time from weather related problems and service has been excellent.
I went to the Cape this weekend and had to watch TV on Comcast. YUCK!! Unlike DTV that has a menu showing a description of everything playing at the moment and into the future, I had to wait for the commercial to end to find out what was playing and if I was at all interested in watching or go to another channel and wait for the commercial to end to see what was playing, etc. ... Very frustrating!
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