Dish vs Comcast on-demand?

[th3w01f]

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.

[PsyKo]

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.

[cofi]

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

[th3w01f]

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

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.

[cofi]

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

[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

[cofi]

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

mine connects to my wifi no phone line required

[Ridge]

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

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.

[Zundfolge]

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

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).

[trlcavscout]

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).

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.