DirecTv Rates going up

[colorider]

Regarding the advertising. It's called top of the mind awareness marketing. Yes, it did piss you off, but the science behind it is that the more times you see their company, the more likely you are to use them or at least call them when you are ready for a service they and others provide.

[O2HeN2]

This group might have some ideas given this topic...

I'd like to ditch DTV, have wanted to for some time. Currently ~$150 a month. No premium channels. I've seen in hundreds of places claim "Hey, just call 'em up and say <whatever>... I now pay $12 a month!" Well, that hasn't worked for me.

For $150, I can subscribe to a LOT of services, rent movies and still be ahead.

But...

The GF is old school and likes to channel surf "to see what's on" and choose from that. And when just vegging out, will choose something to watch from what's currently showing (which 9 times out of 10, is a Harry Potter movie) rather than surgically go "I want to watch Outlander".

There's no way to display in a schedule the sheer number of channels displayed by DTV (because, after all, all those channels IS the service). But I might be able to get a few OTA "being shown right now" channels, perhaps with some existing OTA PVR (recommendations please) or even build a OTA Raspberry Pi PVR.

Suggestions, anyone?

$150/month is a heck of a lot to pay to channel surf.

O2

[00tec]

This group might have some ideas given this topic...

I'd like to ditch DTV, have wanted to for some time. Currently ~$150 a month. No premium channels. I've seen in hundreds of places claim "Hey, just call 'em up and say <whatever>... I now pay $12 a month!" Well, that hasn't worked for me.

For $150, I can subscribe to a LOT of services, rent movies and still be ahead.

But...

The GF is old school and likes to channel surf "to see what's on" and choose from that. And when just vegging out, will choose something to watch from what's currently showing (which 9 times out of 10, is a Harry Potter movie) rather than surgically go "I want to watch Outlander".

There's no way to display in a schedule the sheer number of channels displayed by DTV (because, after all, all those channels IS the service). But I might be able to get a few OTA "being shown right now" channels, perhaps with some existing OTA PVR (recommendations please) or even build a OTA Raspberry Pi PVR.

Suggestions, anyone?

$150/month is a heck of a lot to pay to channel surf.

O2

I use Sling. I have the Sling box (airTV or whatever), connected to my antenna for OTA (and a hard drive to DVR the OTA stuff), and it displays them all on a guide similar to a regular TV service. I think we pay $45 or $50 a month.

[Justin]

If getting junk mail triggers you then maybe you should lighten up a bit before you have a stroke.

Seriously, my coworker is strung pretty tight and he had a heart attack last Friday.

I'm being somewhat hyperbolic, frankly, I'd already forgotten about the whole thing until I came back to this thread.

[Justin]

Regarding the advertising. It's called top of the mind awareness marketing. Yes, it did piss you off, but the science behind it is that the more times you see their company, the more likely you are to use them or at least call them when you are ready for a service they and others provide.

Joke's on them. Roku is everything I want in TV with none of the fat, and at a reduced cost, even with subscription to a premium service (HBO).

I guess you might have a point about the whole top of mind marketing thing, but, regardless of how often they get me to look at an ad, I still don't have a need for one of their buggy whips.

[ray1970]

I'm being somewhat hyperbolic, frankly, I'd already forgotten about the whole thing until I came back to this thread.

For the record, I wasn?t meaning to bust your chops or seem condescending so I apologize if it came across that way.

I work around people that always seem to stress over insignificant things and I don?t think it?s healthy so was just trying to toss friendly advice your way.

I have had direct TV since about 1994. My bill is close to $200 a month but I have the service on four TVs with DVRs and I have pretty much every channel you can get- HBO, Showtime, Stars, sports package, etc. I?d give it all up and just stream everything but there are a few crappy channels that my wife watches that I haven?t figured out how to stream just yet.

[colorider]

I ditched cable a few years ago. At first I was using Kodi to stream everything and anything. That turned out to be constant work and not reliable at all. Sites up and down all the time. Now I use Roku for everything. I don’t use any of the pay subscription services. It took a while to adapt, but it works. My wife was pissed at first as her HGTV and other silly home shows where unavailable, however she has now discovered there are a ton of those show on Roku for free. I mainly use the Pluto app. I should add that I am not a sports fan at all, so no live sports availability is a non issue.

[eddiememphis]

I called DirecTv to quit and they cut my bill in half with no contract. She said I am allowed two discounts per account and to call up next month and see what else they can do.

I can live with that.