NOT true, i switched to dish and the installer was happy to use the cables from Direct. saved him the work. he just installed the Dish and ran the cables to the outside pole where he connected to the existing direct cables to the house. he was happy and so was I.....................
Same here, when I went from DirecTV in 09 to DIsh in 09 they used same existing wiring from the directv install. Had no issues install wise. Had no major issues with them, except no YES network, hated not having the Yankees, then the ST I missed it, so I switched back in 2010. What got me was they wanted over 800.00 to install HD Dish and Receivers, plus paying same now as with Dish and have HD and everything(DVR, etc...), But they are a good business, I like them over Cable any day.