Dish vs Comcast on-demand?

I know there have been several threads about cable vs Dish but I'm looking for some specific feedback about VOD on Dish vs Comcast.

We currently have Comcast and my wife uses on-demand quite a bit for recent episodes of shows; we just caught up on 'Joe Rogan Questions Everything' using on-demand.

We're looking at Dish but the Dish person at Blockbuster (went there to see the Hopper in person) said that Dish doesn't have VOD for cable network channels or HBO/Starz/Max/etc (even if you're paying for premium channels). She even said the Dish web site mentioning VOD was incorrect. They didn't have a broadband connection to the Hopper so we weren't able to verify in person.

no VOD on directv, if i want to watch something i missed i have to download it from the web. MAXGO and HBOGO offer online access (with a pc) if you have a directv account.
on-demand was cool, comcast, not so much.

dish has VOD for every channel(that i watch anyway) there also giving away a free ipad 2 if you sign up now

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Originally Posted by cofi

dish has VOD for every channel(that i watch anyway) there also giving away a free ipad 2 if you sign up now

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Good to know; do you have any of the movie channels and if so does it work the same for them?

I think the ipad is more of a payment plan since they add $30 a month to your bill for the year if you want the ipad. :)

yea we have all the movie channels vod works for all that

hbo has ALL there series on vod also

sopranos
wire
curb
band of brothers
the pacific

etc etc etc

If you switch Ill be curious to know how it goes. Not a fan of Comcast, but would still have to keep them for Internet anyway.

Am I reading correctly you still need a friggen phone line for Dish? Come one guys its 2013

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Originally Posted by Rooskibar03

If you switch Ill be curious to know how it goes. Not a fan of Comcast, but would still have to keep them for Internet anyway.

Am I reading correctly you still need a friggen phone line for Dish? Come one guys its 2013

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mine connects to my wifi no phone line required

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Originally Posted by Rooskibar03

If you switch Ill be curious to know how it goes. Not a fan of Comcast, but would still have to keep them for Internet anyway.

Am I reading correctly you still need a friggen phone line for Dish? Come one guys its 2013

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I work at Dish. We get free TV service. Even during orientation, the HR reps said Comcast is best for internet.

No phone line required.

Is dish carrying Al Jazera? That's my main motivation for dropping comcast.

What, you didn't drop them when the network was named Current and was owned by Algore?[panic]

I'm just going to have to recuse myself from this thread. As should you Ridge.....Ha-ha

www.Dishanywhere.com is where you dish customers need to go. Has all the VOD you need And more with hulu

I dearly hate Comcast.

Dish.

Fuck off.

JMO

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Originally Posted by kwando

www.Dishanywhere.com is where you dish customers need to go. Has all the VOD you need And more with hulu

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Who owns Hulu?

comcast.com/x1 why would you want a hopper?

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Originally Posted by Otterbatcat

Dish.

Fuck off.

JMO

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Agree

I actually never had issues with them as a television provider, but my wife worked for them, and I have huge issues with the way they treat their employees.

There is a reason they've ranked worst company to work for two years in a row.

Any of you dish employees have a hookup we should know about?

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Originally Posted by Rooskibar03

Any of you dish employees have a hookup we should know about?

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LOL wife still had to pay for service, albeit at a discount. Direct employees get free service according to the installer.

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Originally Posted by Limited GM

I dearly hate Comcast.

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Originally Posted by Otterbatcat

Dish.

Fuck off.

JMO

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And the reason have neither.

I stream the Blaze and go to the tavern for my football. Other than that, nothing worth watching (IMO). Even the local news isn't worth my time.

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Originally Posted by trlcavscout

Who owns Hulu?

comcast.com/x1 why would you want a hopper?

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Stupid ass comcast won't sell me one without upgrading to triple play and contract. I don't need, nor will I pay you for phone service. Man I'm tired of them pushing that stupid service.

The sad and shitty fact IS....

That even if everyone that replied to this thread, stopped and pooled all of our money together to start a new cable service company together......with the idea of serving hard working people with programming that they WANT, and not "bundles" of useless shit, "packages of useless shit"...and all that......

We would get squashed into oblivion before we could even get our feet off the ground.

Pick your poison and take your ass pounding.

*changed that whole post that will never happen........I'm trying to be positive*

Love him or hate him Beck is doing a hell of a job starting up The Blaze network.

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Originally Posted by trlcavscout

Who owns Hulu?

comcast.com/x1 why would you want a hopper?

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Dish anywhere has Hulu content on their site. Not saying that dish owns them.

The hopper/sling is awesome. Fuck Comcast, I was with them for 10 years with no issues or late payments and they treat me like a scum bag. No thanks.

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Originally Posted by Rooskibar03

Stupid ass comcast won't sell me one without upgrading to triple play and contract. I don't need, nor will I pay you for phone service. Man I'm tired of them pushing that stupid service.

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You don't need a contract, just the triple. And if you aren't satisfied with the phone, use the 30 day guarantee.
We need a winking smiley

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Originally Posted by Ridge

I work at Dish. We get free TV service. Even during orientation, the HR reps said Comcast is best for internet.

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Comcast may be faster than CenturyLink DSL, but they throttle your connection if they even think you torrent and they will fire you as a customer if you start going over your usage limits (limits they claim don't exist but do ... you start streaming TV and you may run close to those limits). So you're never really going to be able to take advantage of the greater bandwidth without risking trouble with Comcast.

Additionally Comcast is evil (and wants to take your guns ... among other things).

With our CenturyLink DSL line I'm able to run 2 Roku boxes at the same time and still surf just fine.

Roku + Netflix + Plex + antenna and I'm pretty happy (and only paying $8/mo ... not counting internet service that I'd have anyway).

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Originally Posted by Ridge

I work at Dish. We get free TV service. Even during orientation, the HR reps said Comcast is best for internet.

No phone line required.

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Must vary by options selected, because we paid, around $30 a month, but we had every channel available.

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Originally Posted by Zundfolge

Comcast may be faster than CenturyLink DSL, but they throttle your connection if they even think you torrent and they will fire you as a customer if you start going over your usage limits (limits they claim don't exist but do ... you start streaming TV and you may run close to those limits). So you're never really going to be able to take advantage of the greater bandwidth without risking trouble with Comcast.

Additionally Comcast is evil (and wants to take your guns ... among other things).

With our CenturyLink DSL line I'm able to run 2 Roku boxes at the same time and still surf just fine.

Roku + Netflix + Plex + antenna and I'm pretty happy (and only paying $8/mo ... not counting internet service that I'd have anyway).

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You don't get close to any magical limits or unicorns streaming TV. Even if you did get throttled it would still be 10 times faster then century link haha.

With your reasoning you better stick to smoke signals.

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Originally Posted by trlcavscout

You don't get close to any magical limits or unicorns streaming TV. Even if you did get throttled it would still be 10 times faster then century link haha.
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hey i resent that century stink provides me with .75mbs up and 3mbs down.....who needs more then that? next you guys will be saying we need high cap mags with over 15 rounds :)

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Originally Posted by cofi

hey i resent that century stink provides me with .75mbs up and 3mbs down.....who needs more then that? next you guys will be saying we need high cap mags with over 15 rounds :)

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Thats just crazy talk! Why would you need that many? They should be limited to 2 "for the children". 1 to see if it stops the 5 bad guys trying to rape you and cut off your ding ding, and the other to end your suffering if it doesn't stop them.

Thanks for all the replies. We will keep Comcast Internet regardless of what we do with cable. I think someone mentioned X1 a white back. Anyone else using X1.

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Originally Posted by th3w01f

Thanks for all the replies. We will keep Comcast Internet regardless of what we do with cable. I think someone mentioned X1 a white back. Anyone else using X1.

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I was in the initial beta testing back in February (ish). Was rough at first, but they have the kinks ironed out ant it's been running great for the last 4 months or so.

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Originally Posted by 00tec

I was in the initial beta testing back in February (ish). Was rough at first, but they have the kinks ironed out ant it's been running great for the last 4 months or so.

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It's the DVR size that concerns me. I have 1TB drives in my current DVRs. I've heard there are plans to allow external storage at some point in CO.

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Originally Posted by th3w01f

It's the DVR size that concerns me. I have 1TB drives in my current DVRs. I've heard there are plans to allow external storage at some point in CO.

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Their is also a cloud coming soon. With on demand do you really need more then 500Gb? 5 tuners to record at a time on any channel any time (yes you can set 5 from a terminal). You can sink WiFi keyboards and stuff to them, the apps are limited right now but hopefully will be growing quickly. They are a pain to setup, your wiring has to be good, but if they are installed correctly its pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by trlcavscout

Their is also a cloud coming soon. With on demand do you really need more then 500Gb? 5 tuners to record at a time on any channel any time (yes you can set 5 from a terminal). You can sink WiFi keyboards and stuff to them, the apps are limited right now but hopefully will be growing quickly. They are a pain to setup, your wiring has to be good, but if they are installed correctly its pretty cool.

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both of out DVRs are sitting about 70% with no overlap. I'd have to check ondemand to see if the episodes I have saved are on there.

The current x1 is 500gb. X2 is pending rollout (dont know eta) and it's cloud based.

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Originally Posted by 00tec

The current x1 is 500gb. X2 is pending rollout (dont know eta) and it's cloud based.

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Do you know of they're going to go to usage based billing for cloud DVR? Something like $10 per 100GB per month?

Anyone know Baja broadband? We were getting reamed for net/cable. Roomate swapped to Direct for his tv. Still have baja for net, but looking for other options.

Problem is west milliken apparently doesn't have comcast. I know theres century link, anyone know of anything better than that? Gamer/video watcher but don't torrent.

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Originally Posted by Ridge

I work at Dish. We get free TV service. Even during orientation, the HR reps said Comcast is best for internet.

No phone line required.

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Looks like there are about half a dozen board members here that work for Dish/Echostar :)