Questions before Moving to Brighthouse from DirecTV

[MikeBtp]

About ready to move to Brighthouse cable (Central Florida-Lake Mary area) from DirecTV (which I've had for 13 years) but have a few questions:
1. How is the HD video quality? Is 1080i available regularly? How about 1080p availability?
2. Does Dolby Digital audio work well consistently (no skips, no glitches, in sync with video)?
3. Any outages and if so, how often and how long?
4. Is there a search feature and, if so, how far into the future does it search and can you setup a recording for future programs?
5. Is there a specific DVR model that works better than others?

DirecTV's quality and service have been gradually getting worse over the years and I'm ready to make a change. My other choices, besides Brighthouse, are Comcast/Xfinity and AT&T U-verse (soon). I'm leaning towards Brighthouse and understand their guide is not very good but I can possibly live with that, although the guide and search feature of DirecTV were very good.

If anybody has moved from DirecTV to Brighthouse, could you give me your impression?



Thanks,
Mike

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[iceturkee]

Stick with directv

[The Insider]

About ready to move to Brighthouse cable (Central Florida-Lake Mary area) from DirecTV (which I've had for 13 years) but have a few questions:
1. How is the HD video quality? Is 1080i available regularly? How about 1080p availability?
2. Does Dolby Digital audio work well consistently (no skips, no glitches, in sync with video)?
3. Any outages and if so, how often and how long?
4. Is there a search feature and, if so, how far into the future does it search and can you setup a recording for future programs?
5. Is there a specific DVR model that works better than others?

DirecTV's quality and service have been gradually getting worse over the years and I'm ready to make a change. My other choices, besides Brighthouse, are Comcast/Xfinity and AT&T U-verse (soon). I'm leaning towards Brighthouse and understand their guide is not very good but I can possibly live with that, although the guide and search feature of DirecTV were very good.

If anybody has moved from DirecTV to Brighthouse, could you give me your impression?

Thanks,
Mike

1. Bright house sends whatever the channel provider offers. (except 1080p which is rare on any system)
2. Yes the surround sound works great on the channels/programs that offer it.
3. You should experience a lot less then you did at Directv. With cable you do not get the infamous "rain fade". If you have an outage it is typically isolated to a very small area and there is a reason why (ie: cable cut, lightning damage, etc). I can count on 1 hand the number of times I have lost service for any length of time over the past several years.
4. Yes there is a search feature, and the guide has data up to 7 days into the future. So you can set a recording on future programs without a problem.
5. I prefer the newer cisco dvrs, they work well. I have the whole home DVR its a Cisco DVR and love it.

[iceturkee]

About ready to move to Brighthouse cable (Central Florida-Lake Mary area) from DirecTV (which I've had for 13 years) but have a few questions:
1. How is the HD video quality? Is 1080i available regularly? How about 1080p availability?
2. Does Dolby Digital audio work well consistently (no skips, no glitches, in sync with video)?
3. Any outages and if so, how often and how long?
4. Is there a search feature and, if so, how far into the future does it search and can you setup a recording for future programs?
5. Is there a specific DVR model that works better than others?

DirecTV's quality and service have been gradually getting worse over the years and I'm ready to make a change. My other choices, besides Brighthouse, are Comcast/Xfinity and AT&T U-verse (soon). I'm leaning towards Brighthouse and understand their guide is not very good but I can possibly live with that, although the guide and search feature of DirecTV were very good.

If anybody has moved from DirecTV to Brighthouse, could you give me your impression?

Thanks,
Mike

you do have a selection of movies in 1080p on dtv. as a new customer, you would be eligible for directv's new 5 tuner hd dvr and 2 clients at no extra charge. that box is better than anything you'll get from bright house.

[iceturkee]

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you do have a selection of movies in 1080p on dtv. as a new customer, you would be eligible for directv's new 5 tuner hd dvr and 2 clients at no extra charge. that box is better than anything you'll get from bright house.

my bad, if you are a current dtv customer, you might not get the new customer deal. but if you talked to retention and told them you wanted to go to cable, they may give you a sweetheart deal. no promises.

at present, i have both. there are things i like about cable....more national hd and watch espn. i won't use their boxes as i have tivos in my living room and bedroom. on the negative side, i find their picture quality to be almost unwatchable. too much pixelation on my 88 inch projector screen and 64 in plasma.

[jcarrera]

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...I have tivos in my living room and bedroom. on the negative side...

Do non-BHN boxes (STBs) give you all of the functions you get with a BHN box--like the channel guide, on-demand, etc?

Also, how do you get BHN to 'authorize' your box (allow it to work on their network)?

I am very annoyed at the high monthly cost of the three BHN boxes I have (all different BTW).