Direct TV?

[Beprepared]

I've had a problem with my main box, the new automated service call scheduler has had me out of (full) service for almost 6 weeks. Plus, no BlazeTv. I'll try Dish after my contract is up.

[BigDee]

If you're a Costco member and you sign up at Costco you'll get an extra $10 a month off of your service plus a $200 Costco gift card. They are also offering the Sunday ticket for free for the remainder of the football season.

[waxthis]

Directv........................Still nothing but problems and their CS sux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[StagLefty]

As far as bundling goes I'm not really sure. If you want the convenience of paying 1 bill every month I can see the value in bundling but if you want the best deals out there you need to shop each company and get the best deal for each service you need.

^ This.

[revor]

We had a bundled mess of DTV, home phone and internet.. The servive work but the cost was stupid. Basic cable, no HBO etc bundled was $180 per month. I've been a customer for 15+ years, I figured I'd call and see what they could do about the cost o fthe TV, they pretty much told me to pound sand so I quit them. I mad a deal with "what ever the phone company calls itself these days" for cheap Internet, ditched the home phone and the DTV. I now pay $25 for internet, bought a Roku Streaming device and a digital antenna after the initial investment of about $200 I now pay netflix to stream most everything you get on cable, the wife is a member of Amazon Prime which streams other stuff, and there's Vimeo etc,etc Total monthly now is less than $50 and I couldn't be happier. If there is something you absolutely have to watch in my case that would be new Breaking Dad or Walking Dead which I pay $2 for keep in mind this is for the latest episode. Ala carte is good for my wallet.

[kawiracer14]

I had DTV for 2 years bundled with Century Link (or was Qwest then I guess). I had no problems what so ever. When we had a really heavy snow I would have to go out with a hockey stick or brush and knock the snow off but that maybe happened twice in two years. I like them much better than Comcast.

When I canceled my service they begged me to stay and offered me some ridiculous deal to keep it but I told them unless they were paying me to keep it, it wasn't a deal.

I use rabbit ears now and save ~$1200 a month.

[akumadiavolo]

I had DirecTV for a few years. It would constantly have trouble with this channel or that channel. Rarely would everything go out, but almost always something was out or the receptions was so blocky and pixilated it was un-watchable. As other have said the CS sucks donkey balls and they never did anything to solve problems or compensate me.

I also just changed away from Century Link for internet. I was paying 60 bucks for a 17 meg connection and now pay 35 bucks for a 58 meg connection with Comcast. The Century Link connection was constantly dropping for just a minute or so at a time, which made surfing the web annoying and watching streaming video almost impossible.

All in all I was not satisfied with any portion of the DirectTV/Century Link service.

[CO Hugh]

I don't have any problems with the service, even in bad weather generally good.

Don't like price though. Where is free tv and Beverly hillbillies.

[Dave_L]

Ive had them for about 2 years now. No complaints. I got sick of having to call Comcast and "renegotiate" my price every 6 months. My friends just got them and had nothing but headaches though. :shrugs: I've had reception go out maybe twice in 2 years and it was brief because of major storms rolling in from the south.