Should I go with Dish or Direct TV? What are the down sides?

[ANADRILL]

Looking for s service sick of comcast...

[00tec]

I like my directv. Dish seems to have programming negotiation issues. And if I give you my account #, we could both save $10/mo for 10 months

[BigDee]

If you like Football DirecTV.

If you're cheap Dish.

As said in the previous post Dish has a lot of programming negotiation issues. The owner of Dish has a reputation for being a hard lined cheap ass that is hated by most TV networks because he is nearly impossible to deal with. As a result of the owners tactics there have multiple situations where channels have been temporarily removed from the Dish lineup. I believe there is about to be an interruption to a network as we speak for this very reason.

Personally I would have DirecTV if it were not for the fact that my wife is a Comcast employee and gets Comcast services for free.

[Mtn.man]

I have direct, buddy has dish I get alot more channels that he doesn't. Outdoor channels, espn channels etc.
He gets pissed cause I call and tell him so and so is on, and he says I don't get that channel.

Direct vote here.

[BlasterBob]

I have had Direct TV (or what ever it's predecessor was known as) for the past 17 years and the only complaint is that rain CAN knock the broadcast signal out for a minute or two. This may also happen if a bird takes a leak while in the signal path.

[speedysst]

If I were to go back to satellite (Im with Comcast now...though hopefully not for long) I would go with Direct TV. Dish dropped AMC and pretty much 3 of the 5 shows I wont miss are on AMC.

[J]

I had directv before, had nightmares with their billing department. Liked the service though.

[cofi]

i liked direct tv but they jacked my rates up 5 times in under 2 years i switched to dish im paying 50 bucks a month for everything every channel they offer.... the hopper receiver sucks and will not record shows its CONSTANTLY missing shows the direct tv reciver handled like 50 recordings and would almost always catch shows

im thinking about keeping dish but getting tivo.....

[trlcavscout]

i liked direct tv but they jacked my rates up 5 times in under 2 years i switched to dish im paying 50 bucks a month for everything every channel they offer.... the hopper receiver sucks and will not record shows its CONSTANTLY missing shows the direct tv reciver handled like 50 recordings and would almost always catch shows

im thinking about keeping dish but getting tivo.....

Ya the hopper is a joke. The first commercials made it sound like a 6 tuner DVR but it was way over sold.

[20X11]

They all SUCK...but they don't SUCK as bad as Comcast. I now have Directv...Box went out 2 weeks ago...had to wait 3 days for a new one to be shipped to me. (Thankfully I have multiple boxes in the house so it was a mere PITA)