Dish Network vs Direct TV

[bjr]

I don't do that, I just don't. All those pay for TV connections are just not worth anything and I don't care what brand, Cable, satelliit or internet TV. You would have be a nonstop professional TV watcher to use 200 channels. Now having said that i'm a youtube junky, but I'm only payin' for a micro wave cconnection at $35 a month. My TV is broad cast at 0 $ a month and I get may 10 channels. I watch to much TV/internet as it is, I got chores to do. Well good luck to all you folks that have that much time to "sit and watch the Boob Tube". Just wasted ten minutes responding here--gotta go. bjr

 

[kcflhrc]

It's quite obvious we all have different likes and dislikes when it comes to entertainment. For those that don't care to have pay TV, that's fine. But it truly is the cheapest form of entertainment. If I go to the movies once a month and figure in ticket prices, concessions, gas money, the nerve racking drive to get there then $76 a month is well worth it for Pay TV.

 

[rekees4300]

Yeah but 200+ channels of what? Shop at home crap doesn't count nor does about half the time for advertising for pills, ambulance chasers and all the other crap from China for 19.99. Reality TV doesn't do it for me either and while sports and children's programming may be important to some it's worthless to me. What do junkyard pickers and pawn shops have to do with history anyway? The movies are the same over and over again while most are not worth watching even once. Talk about a pig in a poke, all those channels is exactly that if you ask me. I'd be happy to get at least six that are worth watching. IMHO we were better off way back when we only had three networks. The news was news and informative and not social commentary or attempts at social engineering the country while the advertizing, what there was of it, was much more limited and more entertaining than it is today. In fact the news broadcasts cost the networks and they did the news as a public service. I would not qualify what CNN, MSNBC, and most of the others put out as news. Watch 30 minutes of Fox and you have all they are going to say for the next 24 to 48 hours only with different talking heads saying the same thing and covering exactly the same stuff. There is obviously a lot more going on than what these clowns are putting out.

I have a DirecTV 200+ channels deal but 175 of those are indeed "a vast wasteland". Watch only Fox News 90% of the time, but you are correct, they have 24 minutes of real news repeated by the talking heads in 24 hours cycles.

 

[aczlan]

Interesting. I've been thinking of switching once Directvnow works for roku boxes. What do you get for local channels like NBC, CBS, FOX, and ABC?
That's the one thing I dont' like about Sling is I do not get all the locals.

You can get those channels for the Roku, or if you have a friend/family member who has cable (my inlaws have Time Warner), you can enter their cable account login in the cable companies "channel" on the Roku (the Time Warner channel in our case) and get all the channels that they subscribe to on the Roku box.

Aaron Z

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Y'all can laugh at me all you want, but one of my favorite things to watch is motorcycle racing. All forms. Supercross, Outdoors moto x , road racing and mostly MotoGP world championship road racing.

They put MotoGP on some crazy back deal channel called BeIn, which might be out of Spain or Europe because it mostly has soccer as its primary sport. I don't care to watch soccer, but if I want to see MotoGP, I have to opt up on some crazy high package in DirecTv. I'm going to check on Dish soon about it.

I'm out of contract, and could use some newer equipment because my Directv equipment is getting slower, and slower. My main DVR will sometimes just LOCK the f up when trying to fast forward or rewind or pause. Nothing short of unplugging it and waiting the 15-20 minutes for it to configure itself to get back to watching. VERY AGGRAVATING.

But the bottom line is, for those reading like myself, which has the best price, customer service, equipment, etc???

 

[rekees4300]

I'm out of contract, and could use some newer equipment because my Directv equipment is getting slower, and slower. My main DVR will sometimes just LOCK the f up when trying to fast forward or rewind or pause. Nothing short of unplugging it and waiting the 15-20 minutes for it to configure itself to get back to watching. VERY AGGRAVATING.

If you stay with DirecTV, check out their Genie wireless setup. We've had it a couple years and really like it. You might get the equipment/installation for free if you threatened to close your account.

 

[two_bit_score]

I have a DirecTV 200+ channels deal but 175 of those are indeed "a vast wasteland". Watch only Fox News 90% of the time, but you are correct, they have 24 minutes of real news repeated by the talking heads in 24 hours cycles.

One aggravation I had with Time Warner was the excessive duplication if programming. Same thing on about three or maybe more channels sometimes.

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[rekees4300]

One aggravation I had with Time Warner was the excessive duplication if programming. Same thing on about three or maybe more channels sometimes.

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That's a problem for all the services that have hundreds of channels to fill 24/7. DirecTV solves the problem with reruns and unwatchable fluff.

 

[two_bit_score]

That's a problem for all the services that have hundreds of channels to fill 24/7. DirecTV solves the problem with reruns and unwatchable fluff.

A LOT of reruns on cable too!

I'm liking the Direct TV Now pretty well.

The Apple TV has YouTube on it so I can watch that on tv. Mostly I'm a news junkie so I get enough of that.

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[RedNeckGeek]

But the bottom line is, for those reading like myself, which has the best price, customer service, equipment, etc???

I'm in the same boat, addicted to M/C racing, especially Moto GP and Real Roadracing AKA Isle of Mann. Also the Outdoors channel for shooting sports. A couple weeks ago I put together a list of all the channels I had DVRed shows on, maybe three dozen out of the 200+ on offer. Then I found the minimum packages at DirecTV and Dish that would get me that channel list. Dish was about twenty bux a month less than DirecTV because one of those channels was only available with the second most expensive package at DirecTV. So I'm still sticking with Dish, at least for the time being. None of the off brand DVRs work as well or as accurate in capturing programming as the 10 year old TiVo I had when I first signed up with DirecTV. The TiVo patents keep the others in also ran status, but I don't think TiVo makes a satellite unit any longer. The Dish Hopper I have now is a couple years old and still works fine, though I don't use the extra one in the bedroom very much and haven't formed much of an opinion on how well it works.