Satellite TV

[bdhsfz6]

We've been Dish customers ever since their startup in 1996. Only one service call in all that time. Like everything else, the price has gone up over time. We now pay $107/mo for two receivers and everything but the premium movie channels. That price also includes all our local channels. Dish also has an OTA adapter which lets us connect our antenna for local channels when there is a blackout due to a Dish/network contract dispute.

Our neighbor had Direct TV but switched to Dish when he saw our system. That was 8 years ago and they've also been satisfied customers.

If the price gets much higher though, we may do as others in this thread suggest and stream the programs we want. This depends on when and if we ever get Starlink.

 

[rgr33]

was a dedicated Direct TV customer for 17 years, but they refused to carry the the sports network that includes the local college teams.
Finally dumped them, and went to Dish TV.
Wish I hadn’t waited so long. Much better pricing and customer service.

 

[jyoutz]

We had Dish for 20+ years. The receiver crapped out and we decided to drop it. Our town has fiber internet so we went for streaming. So far it works well and we ended up paying less than half what Dish cost.

Nice but not available in many rural area’s.

 

[jyoutz]

We've been Dish customers ever since their startup in 1996. Only one service call in all that time. Like everything else, the price has gone up over time. We now pay $107/mo for two receivers and everything but the premium movie channels. That price also includes all our local channels. Dish also has an OTA adapter which lets us connect our antenna for local channels when there is a blackout due to a Dish/network contract dispute.

Our neighbor had Direct TV but switched to Dish when he saw our system. That was 8 years ago and they've also been satisfied customers.

If the price gets much higher though, we may do as others in this thread suggest and stream the programs we want. This depends on when and if we ever get Starlink.

Starlink is dependent on ATT cell service. In the Rocky Mountain region where I live, ATT only serves urban areas.

 

[jyoutz]

We've been Dish customers ever since their startup in 1996. Only one service call in all that time. Like everything else, the price has gone up over time. We now pay $107/mo for two receivers and everything but the premium movie channels. That price also includes all our local channels. Dish also has an OTA adapter which lets us connect our antenna for local channels when there is a blackout due to a Dish/network contract dispute.

Our neighbor had Direct TV but switched to Dish when he saw our system. That was 8 years ago and they've also been satisfied customers.

If the price gets much higher though, we may do as others in this thread suggest and stream the programs we want. This depends on when and if we ever get Starlink.

I wonder how our Dish programs differ? My service is only $60/month and I’m not on the introductory rate. I did call and go to a cheaper plan a few years ago, and don’t miss the more premium channel package. Most of those we didn’t watch anyway.

 

[ponytug]

Starlink is dependent on ATT cell service. In the Rocky Mountain region where I live, ATT only serves urban areas.

I am not sure what you meant to write, but Starlink has nothing to do with AT&T.

 

[PILOON]

I'm on Bell Canada 4 TV.--then a private internet provider and need a land line due to poor reception so no packages 4 us.
As to TV, the actual 40 mins of programing (20 of commercials) are now looking like the internet as they all have scrolling messages and they now have frequent pop up adds.
Only saving grace is PVR as U can 'fast forward'.
Adding insult to injury all packages insist that we have a French portion (that we never look at).

Then you learn that ma Bell is greatly subsidized as they always cry 'poor' only to find out they have a private jet and a tropical hideaway, (naturally in a subsidiary's name), note they are not alone as many 'fortune 50's' also ship profits (and perks) offshore.

 

[jyoutz]

I am not sure what you meant to write, but Starlink has nothing to do with AT&T.

I found that out. There is a ATT service with a similar name. Is starlink another satellite service with a dish type receiver?

 

[kcflhrc]

I found that out. There is a ATT service with a similar name. Is starlink another satellite service with a dish type receiver?

Are you living in a Cave?

 

[ponytug]

I found that out. There is a ATT service with a similar name. Is starlink another satellite service with a dish type receiver?

Starlink is a system of low earth orbit satellites delivering ~100Mbit/s service globally, but especially focused on service rural areas (It can only service very low densities of users, perhaps less than 1 per square mile at the moment.)

There is a thread in Rural Living on it, if you want to read up on it. Or head over to Reddit.com for their Starlink discussion.

All the best,

Peter