Goodbye...

[eddiememphis]

Goodbye Directv.

I've had enough. Paying $900 a year to watch commercials during the same six Marvel movies you constantly show, I can do without.

Now that the Nuggets are out and the Rockies season is over, I have no need for you. I have found myself paying less attention anyway.

Certainly not the $75 per month you currently charge me.

I have found the box tuned to Turner Classic Movies very often recently. I am not a fan of nostalgia. Most of their movies stink. But guess what?

No commercials!

I will put up the antenna again so I can watch the weather. Especially the blonde girl on 31.

Everything else I care to see can be found on the internet. Most of it live, including news and sports.

It has been a great run, although I am straining to remember your positive contribution to our relationship...

Goodbye Directv.

[Irving]

Oh phew, I thought you were rage quitting the site; thank goodness only Direct TV.

[eddiememphis]

Oh phew, I thought you were rage quitting the site; thank goodness only Direct TV.

Nah, not yet.

Although the poor punctuation under your name is getting me worked up...

[Irving]

Don't even get me started.

[MrPrena]

I thought the same.

[CS1983]

Nah, not yet.

Although the poor punctuation under your name is getting me worked up...

Leave the Mods alone. Grammar is harder than banning. One takes thought and the other involves mashing buttons like a monkey. Sometimes the two get intertwined.

[Gman]

Who mashed a monkey?

[Zundfolge]

Welcome to the wonderful world of the cord cutter.

[GilpinGuy]

Its been several months for us now and we haven't wanted it back once. Now I see a commercial somewhere and I'm like, "Ewwwwww".

[wyome]

Don't even get me started.

Add it to the list?

[fj605]

Without commercials, how else are you supposed to know who to vote for?

We ditched Dish almost four years ago and aside from Sunday afternoon golf tournaments aka nap time, we don't miss it.

[Irving]

Its been several months for us now and we haven't wanted it back once. Now I see a commercial somewhere and I'm like, "Ewwwwww".

Whenever I talk to my mom, she always seems to ask me, "have you seen such and such commercial?" Energy time I have to remind her that we haven't had "cable" for years now, so unless it was before a YouTube video, I haven't seen it.

[ChadAmberg]

I've got a bunch of folks who share out our Plex servers for tv shows and movies. We have so much content we'll never want for something to watch.

[Hummer]

Good choice eddiememphis. Cut the cable or crummy sat service. It's a blood sucker.
Glad you're still with us.

[WETWRKS]

Haven’t had cable/dish in about 10 years. If there is something I want to watch I can catch it at families. Other than that I watch dvds and blueray when home. When I counted a number of years back I was at about 700 movies on disc.

[Bailey Guns]

I refuse to pay for TV aside from Netflix and Prime. The ex still has Dish. She uses my Netflix streaming account, I use "Dish Anywhere" from her account. Works for me.

[BladesNBarrels]

Maybe I am the only one old enough to remember the promise from Jones when he was trying to get everyone to switch from broadcast TV to his new cable TV?
"With your monthly subscription, you will never see commercials again."
Now commercials actually are more of the viewing time in an hour than the programming.
And the network's conspiracy synch's the commercials so all the channels show them at the same time, so channel surfing doesn't work as well as it used to.

[colorider]

Been a few years for me. Won’t watch a sports game so it was an easy choice. Don’t mind commercials on Roku free stuff.

[Martinjmpr]

I've never had DirectTV but I worked for their competitor, Dish Network, for about 4 months in 1998. I started as a customer service rep and then got moved up to tech support for a $3/hr pay boost.

I would never in a million years get either system. When they work, they're OK but when they don't (and often they don't) they're a nightmare. What pissed me off were the sleazy sales practices of the local dish sellers who told customers that Dish was as good as cable and if they had any problems, they'd fix them.

What they didn't tell the customers was that unlike cable, which is considered a public utility, if a Dish retailer has to dispatch a technician to troubleshoot your system, you're going to have to pay out of pocket for that - because unlike cable, that service is NOT included in what you pay for.

Even in the few short months I was there I lost track of the number of times I got calls from customers who, after I walked them through the troubleshooting steps, gave up and said "just send a technician out to my house." I then had to explain to them that we, Dish Network, didn't have a "technician" to send out, if a tech got sent out, it would be from their local Dish retailer and they'd have to pay a minimum $100 trip fee just for him to come out. At that point they would often curse and hang up.

[MrPrena]

No Cable/satellite
No Netflix or any online subscriptions
No Post paid phone plans (only prepaid).
No Gym membership* or shooting range membership.


*although it is cheaper to get a membership than going to Rec Center, I just do not like money coming out of my checking automatically.

[JoeRoss]

For those who choose to keep it, or for whatever reason, have to. (like me)
Call them. Tell them you have an offer from their competitor, and you were wondering if there is anything they can do about the price.
I told them I had an offer from Dish for a $300 card (which I did) and other perks.

I just came off of a year of a $20 a month discount. When I called last week, I got a $35 a month discount, for a year.

I have heard it works both ways, for Dish or Directv.

[roberth]

I have Comcast Internet simply because it meets my needs.

Years ago I turned off the TV part after they couldn't give a rational answer to the question "why am i paying for commercials?".

Comcast has it made, they get money from advertisers and they get people to pay to watch advertising.

[BladesNBarrels]

For those who choose to keep it, or for whatever reason, have to. (like me)
Call them. Tell them you have an offer from their competitor, and you were wondering if there is anything they can do about the price.
I told them I had an offer from Dish for a $300 card (which I did) and other perks.

I just came off of a year of a $20 a month discount. When I called last week, I got a $35 a month discount, for a year.

I have heard it works both ways, for Dish or Directv.

Last year Directv gave me a $50 per month discount. When it ended, I called, and they said no discounts were available and tried to upsell me on more subscriptions.
It might be time to call again.
This year they gave me NFL Sunday out of the blue, but this isn't much of a football season.

[TEAMRICO]

I find myself watching regular old TV more often. I like the Laff and AntennaTV channels with the old sitcoms.