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Looking into satellite TV (direct TV)

joker5656joker5656 Member Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
Sucks cause i have a HDtv but i have to pay 10 bucks to view my shows in HD. What happens in a few years when all TVs are HD and standard is out the door. Still going to have to pay 10 bucks. What a monopoly, my current cable is better (same price) but just don't get all the high definition channels. What to do, what to do.
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  • sig232sig232 Member Posts: 8,018
    edited November -1
    I am going to live without out the HD as long as possible. Been watching regular TV for so long I am quite used to it. I find the number of commercials anymore makes it darn hard to even concentrate on the programing. Used to be commercials every 30 min or so and there was a max of three at a time. Now its every 10 min or more and there are 7+ commercials. Soon it will be all commercials and the TV will be the breaks. This is cable which I pay $100 per month for. Movie channels are the only thing that you get much of a break on.

    So you spend $1000-5000 for a plasma HD to watch commercials! Do I have a bad attitude about this or what!
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  • COLTCOLT Member Posts: 12,637 ******
    edited November -1
    joker, direct TV for about 3 years. Friends have cable, fewer channels...and costs more. Friends have Dish Network, stays out, a lot.

    ...Only massive cloud cover to the South, has ever effected mine.
    It has probably been "out" for no more than 2-3 hours total, in the time I have had it, and comes back on, by itsself...no service call(yet). I don't "watch" it all that much, but if I want to...lots to choose from...and at there ARE hunting, fishing, shows on most anytime...[:p]

    ...I lied, last year lightening struck the phone line somewhere CLOSE, fried a LOT of electric things in the house...[:0] Fried the satalite dish, Tivo, and the "box" in the bedroom.
    3 days and Direct Tv replaced the Tivo, "box", and charged me nada...and no charge for that month either...can't complain!

    ...a hundred and fifty something(?) channels, and no scrolling "garage sales" or flipping between A and B. Tivo, hooked to 2 TV's, and I think it is around $60 bucks a month.

    ...Oh, if you don't have a "referring" party...holler at me, I'd get
    a free month? or something, (never done it) for referring someone.
    ...thought I would "mention" that....[:D]
    ...But heh, it is good service, best I have heard of or had...[^]


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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    My folks had a dish for several years -- couldn't get cable where they were at. They'd whine and moan about how terrible the reception was whenever the wind got bad (living in the mountains, that was fairly often).

    They moved last year and I told them to get cable. They hemmed and hawed, with their prior experiences with cable (many years ago), I told them it had improved significantly, they tried it and they love it.

    FWIW, a dish is the same price as extended cable here. With the dish, I get many more channels. However, I get more channels with cable that I'll actually watch, versus 90% of the channels with the dish that are basically variations of Lifetime TV, home shopping networks, and other garbage that offers little interest.
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  • Daddie_TomDaddie_Tom Member Posts: 824 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The thing I like best about Directv is that I can take it camping with me. Watching the playoffs/Nascar around the campfire..Thats roughing it smoothly
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    I've had em all. Started way back with primestar, then went direcTV, now back and forth between direct and dish. They all appear the same as far as quality and service. I've even heard the owners of direct and dish are brothers.

    Now considering a satellite connection for the net.
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  • aka rottenaka rotten Member Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hell,I aint even owned a tv. in over 15 years.Just might get one of them new fangled radios thou,hear they tell some good stories!
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