satellite or cable

[Great-Kazoo]

SO with the ever changing Tv market cost wise per month.
Direct TV or Comcast Cable & why? reception, cust svc etc. After speaking with Comcast about my $10 per month bill fluctuation, and their yeahhhh i guess we can review your bill attitude. I'm looking for another option. Unless Direct Tv is not as good as it looks on paper
i could care less about sports packages.
HBO's a must.

[al_g]

DirecTV has been great for me. I had a billing problem when I switched to HD receiver and it got marked as a new install and not a replacement.

Given a choice I'll take DirecTV for TV and Comcast for cable modem.

[Birddog1911]

DirectTV has been good for me as well. The only time there have been the weather outages that cable likes to try and point to, have been during the most severe thunderstorms or a couple of times in blizzards when the dish was covered in an inch of snow. Not that hard to go out and wipe it off.

I live in the country, so cable is not an option for me. But, I don't miss it from when I lived in town, either.

[Concealed45_1911]

DirecTV for me, I installed for them for a while and had to hear all the complaining about ComCast and Dish Net. From what I have heared DTV service and selection is alot better. The above prob with the bill was the installers fault, Im sure it was done on purpose so he would get paid more. they pay like $7 to do a upgrade, or $30 for an install. I live in the country and my dish is on the south side of the house. only once did I loose signal due to weather. Of course we lost power an hour later and didnt get it back for 3 days so it didn't matter.

[car-15]

+1 for directv.

[Fourthwind]

+2 DTV I will never go back to cable.

[theGinsue]

Well, I'm not going to try to stop the momentum of the DirecTV train here. I had DTV for a few years before moving to Massachusetts and I loved them. When I got to MA I lived in AF base housing and wasn't allowed to put up a dish so I went with Comcast (yeah, they're out there too).

With DirectTv I paid about $35/month and I had an occasional outage in heavy snow but I simply went outside and brushed the snow off and WHALLAH - I had reception again. (NOTE: They now make/sell heater units that stick to the back of th dish so this isn't required any more.)

With Comcast I paid over $100/month (that's just for the TV channels for 1 TV, not counting the internet) and had REGULAR outages which sometimes lasted for days - with no explanation or compensation from Comcast. Of course, they charged me a shiney nickel to install and I had to rent the converter box which I had to drive all over God's green earth to find the location to return it when I left so I wouldn't be charged $150.

When I moved back into my home here in CO I quickly got DTV with every channel I want to watch (and more, no premiums like HBO and no HD) and only pay about $65/month for 4 TV's. I don't have HD as I'm too cheap to pay more for it (it's available on a LOT of channels, if not all of them), but every channel is good/clear digital quality. The installation and equipment was FREE! (they had to install a connection in each of my 2 kids rooms upstairs as I didn't get that when the house was built - all FREE).

I've also checked out the Dish Network and found I have a better deal with DirecTV. If you choose to go the DirecTV route, give them the name of someone in your area who has DirecTv and they will credit both your account and that persons account with $50!

[HunterCO]

Direct TV for me I like them the best.

[Paradude54]

DVDs!

I ditched the cable a year and a half ago and haven't looked back. No rabbit ears, no satellite and no cable. My bill stays the same every month and I don't have to pay for a lot of crap that I could care less about. The ONLY way that I'd ever consider going back is if they offered it ala' carte'.

[kwando]

i'm biased because i work for EchoStar (formally dish).

Advantages of comcast - on demand. does not go out during heavy snow/rain.
Disadvantages of comcast - expensive. shitty UI and very complicated to operate.

Satellite - great for if you cannot get comcast. Cheaper. Dish has the best UI. Excellent HD quality. Dual tuners, etc.