dish bill

[Bird]

With DIRECT you buy the equipment.

That was true when I bought my whole system from Circuit City in Waco in May, 1997, for $322.58, then went to Radio Shack and bought an antenna for $76.83 for the local channels and installed it all myself, with a little help from a brother, but now my DirecTV receivers are leased from DirecTV and they installed everything.

 

[MoKelly]

Looking back in time, who would have ever thought people would be paying meaningful $$$ for TV, phone and internet services? I can remember when TV was free, phones were mounted on the wall and Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet.:laughing:

MoKelly

 

[heehaw]

i bought my receivers years ago: got at least one of them off ebay: but it looks like i am about the same as the rest of you, so i will continue on as it is: the only difference anyone has come up with between dish and direct, is the length of time it takes to forward thru commercials, when watching a recorded show: one person says it takes a lot longer with direct than it did with dish??? i never thought i would be paying $83+ a month for tv!!
heehaw

 

[Bird]

Looking back in time, who would have ever thought people would be paying meaningful $$$ for TV, phone and internet services? I can remember when TV was free, phones were mounted on the wall and Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet.:laughing:

MoKelly

Phones on the wall? If I remember right, our ring was two short and a long.

 

[Rocksprings]

Phones on the wall? If I remember right, our ring was two short and a long.

Dang you are old :laughing: and you could listen to everyone talking.:thumbsup:

 

[jinman]

Looks like we're all gettin' soaked about the same.:laughing:

Does that make us all suckers or Dum-Dums?:laughing:

 

[sellercreek]

Dang you are old :laughing: and you could listen to everyone talking.:thumbsup:

Brings back memories. We were on a 12 party party line in the early 60s!!

 

[Ken]

Only 12 on the line. Remember phone co. Arkansas Telephone Co.?
As a kid of maybe 14 walking in the woods near Little Red River out of Low Gap road toward Alread came to a vacant house and inside was a wall type crank Phone. no longer a road it had been that long since anyone lived in the area. Today 60 years later cannot even locate the former house.
Where we lived there was no phone but a line was being built. Power co. power line stopped at our house.
No t.v. either.
ken

 

[brokenknee]

Looking back in time, who would have ever thought people would be paying meaningful $$$ for TV, phone and internet services? I can remember when TV was free, phones were mounted on the wall and Al Gore hadn't invented the internet yet.:laughing:

MoKelly

Thank God for Al Gore

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I first got Dish about 13 yrs ago, $19.95 a month. I make them send me a paper bill because I want to be reminded every month how expensive it is. Now it's $60 a month for the same basic service, except I now have a DVR. All to watch 3 or 4 channels out of the 100.