Dish Network Vs. Direct TV

[The Keymaster]

Directv since 1994. I was one of the original dealers for the RCA equipment. You will never have more than 1 dish with Directv...cant say that with DISH. Directv has all the best orbital slots, and KA band technology. No DISH farm in my roof.

 

[mschlatter]

Uhm... I WAS with Directv at one point and had mutli units on my roof? Go with Dish.

 

[The Keymaster]

Uhm... I WAS with Directv at one point and had mutli units on my roof? Go with Dish.

Then you had some other issue, likely a bad installer, maybe a tree. There is no reason to have more than one Directv dish. With the current technology you can hit all the orbital slots you need to with one dish.

 

[Scarecrow]

DirecTv here. One dish, NFL Ticket, plenty of Hd. And I might as well throw this out, if you go direct IM me and we can both save a hundred bucks.

 

[cesna250]

Looks like Dish has a slight edge. I am a pretty big football fan, but Warsaw doesn't even have a Direct TV office.

 

[jkaetz]

Looks like Dish has a slight edge. I am a pretty big football fan, but Warsaw doesn't even have a Direct TV office.

It looks like dish has most of the popular HD channels now. A couple years ago that wasn't the case. You should still check to see if Dish offers your local channels in HD. I know it's not uncommon to still need an antenna for HD locals with Dish. My parent's have been with DirecTV for almost 10 years now with little complaint. You don't need an office, just a guy with a dish and a truck to do the install. You can pretty much take the dish and receiver anywhere in the country and get service if you line it up properly. Just make sure whatever provider you choose has the content you want in the format you want. All the services are pretty equal when working. Everything gets hammered when not working.

 

[RockofStrength]

We flip-flopped from dish to directv and back once our contract expired to take advantage of the cheaper "new customer" rates for a little bit until we switched permanently to antenna tv. Can't say I noticed a difference between the two.

 

[steveh_131]

I recommend Usenet + Sickbeard + XBMC.

Save yourself some cash.

 

[kiddchaos]

TV. One of the great American ripoffs.

 

[Marine1]

Dish here

 

[joncon]

I've had Dish for several years. No problems.

 

[Shiban]

I have Direct. Great HD. The problem is price. It's way expensive. 2 hd receivers, DVR, Choice plus I think and HBO. $130/month. I was going to switch to Dish, but no AMC means no Walking Dead. I'm really rural so I can't stream internet or i'd just stream the show. Bummer, but if you want it you gotta pay the price.

 

[mrjarrell]

I have Direct. Great HD. The problem is price. It's way expensive. 2 hd receivers, DVR, Choice plus I think and HBO. $130/month. I was going to switch to Dish, but no AMC means no Walking Dead. I'm really rural so I can't stream internet or i'd just stream the show. Bummer, but if you want it you gotta pay the price.

Dish has AMC. I DVR'ed the last season. Lots of providers have been stiffed by the networks at one time or another. Dish at least had the fortitude to stick up for their customers. I only missed two episodes of WD and I torrented those. Screw AMC or anyone else who tries to hold up the providers.

 

[Tactical Dave]

I'm in the business.... I have seen so many hack installs with dish I lost count. I don't know if its still true but for a while for dish there is a separate dish for HD.

Direc angles their dish up a bit more so they tend to work better in wooded areas.

On the flip side a friend of mine had direct installed by multi band.... It was suck a hack install that she had two supervisors go out and re do it.

Regardless if who you go with I would insist on an employee of the company to do the install... The contract guys get paid per job.....

Also make sure you ask the tech to show you what all needs done before he grabs his drill... You can also have them put a post in the ground so that the dish is not on the house.

 

[Shiban]

Dish has AMC. I DVR'ed the last season. Lots of providers have been stiffed by the networks at one time or another. Dish at least had the fortitude to stick up for their customers. I only missed two episodes of WD and I torrented those. Screw AMC or anyone else who tries to hold up the providers.

They must have gotten it since I checked. I know it was before this last season. I am going to have to look into it again. I wish I had the bandwidth to dl the shows and I wouldn't even have HBO. Thanks for the info on AMC. It's appreciated.

 

[Bigtanker]

We flip-flopped from dish to directv and back once our contract expired to take advantage of the cheaper "new customer" rates for a little bit until we switched permanently to antenna tv. Can't say I noticed a difference between the two.

for antenna tv! Dumped Direct a few years ago when times got tough. Never had anything other than the Antenna since 2008. I don't miss it like I thought I would. I just cant see paying that much for the shows I want to watch (The Sportsman Channel)

Maybe sometime in the future.