Get the best of both worlds. I got comcast and Directv.
If it was not for TiVo I would only have Directv.
I got the TiVo because I got Tv with my Comcast bundle. Now I like TiVo better
I have finally gone full circle. Twenty years ago I dropped Jones Intercable for Dish. Fourteen years ago I dropped Dish for DirecTV. Last week I dropped DirecTV for Tivo and Comcast/Xfinity.
Really like the Tivo Bolt Vox. The speed and commercial skip features really sold me over the sluggishness of the HS17 and clients.
I grew frustrated with DirecTV since the AT&T takeover. I bundled my account and then could never manage it without talking to CSR's overseas with broken english and no clue about DirecTV. Also after the takeover loyalty discounts were hard to come by. I was a tester for the HS17 but could never get removed from the push list after release. Firmware they pushed out for the new GUI locked up two C41W's and DirecTV wanted to charge me for replacements. Couldn't get recover kits without 90 minute phone calls.
Now DirecTV has rolled out a new recovery process. You take your receivers to Fed-Ex or UPS for packaging and shipping. No more recovery kits.
But Fed-EX admits to me they hold the equipment and only ship it back once a week. You can't get a tracking number until after they ship it back. Fed-Ex says the return program is new as of last week and has a lot of bugs.... Kind of like the new GUI.
The Tivo Bolt-Vox and Cablecard is so much easier to manage. I needed Comcast for internet anyway so it made sense to bundle.