I have been a subscriber of Directv since Mar 2000 along with a C-Band dish. I would not have Dish since what their owner did to the C-Band industry.If Dish was the only I would not have tv.I am very pleased with Directv and now the 4K is amazing.....
Why did you choose DirecTV over Dish?
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The main reason my household switched was a combo of Dish unwilling to fix their equipment and bill kept getting a little higher.
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While I did enjoy the new H3, the ultimate goal of pay tv is to watch programming. If you just want to sit around and play on the receiver all day long then Dish is great. If you actually want to watch tv channels, including more sports, Sunday Ticket, NY RSNs, all in better quality, DTV is the way to go.
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It's kind of funny, I left Dish in 2006 because they had little HD sports feeds, such as 1 in 4 games were shown in HD on the RSNs. DirecTV had just launched FS Detroit in HD full time.
Unless I'm mistaking, the RSNs on Dish are still part time channels, 10 years later. They have "most" games in HD now, but not the channel.
For example, I enjoy college hockey from around Michigan, and FS Detroit has many games, and they're all in HD. On Dish, they are 100% in SD.
Add to that all the disputes, and I haven't looked back often, Occasionally they have me thinking about it with their price, such as the recent 3 year $49 price lock promo. That said, it still sucks when your game is only HD, or when the show you want on a local channel is not carried due to a dispute.
DirecTV has only had one dispute that affected me in 10 years, the Versus dispute before it became NBC Sports Net. That one lasted around a year and was painful for hockey fans.
Unless I'm mistaking, the RSNs on Dish are still part time channels, 10 years later. They have "most" games in HD now, but not the channel.
For example, I enjoy college hockey from around Michigan, and FS Detroit has many games, and they're all in HD. On Dish, they are 100% in SD.
Add to that all the disputes, and I haven't looked back often, Occasionally they have me thinking about it with their price, such as the recent 3 year $49 price lock promo. That said, it still sucks when your game is only HD, or when the show you want on a local channel is not carried due to a dispute.
DirecTV has only had one dispute that affected me in 10 years, the Versus dispute before it became NBC Sports Net. That one lasted around a year and was painful for hockey fans.
As a teenager I was in that C-Band era, even almost losing a finger building a 16 feet Dish. When I moved out of my parents home I stopped playing around with satellite stuff & by the time I got stuff for myself, Directv & Dish was ruling the roost by then. I just figured when the programmers started scrambling their signals that killed the C-Band users. How was Dish involved with the killing of C-Band & not Directv also? Just curious.
When I had Dish many many moons ago, before HD, they let you choose 2 of each network from 5 different cities. Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Denver, and LA. Carefully switching the CBS/Fox affiliates (And the locals on my antenna, no locals on satellite yet) was what I have always called the Dish Sunday Ticket. When they stopped that, started dropping channels, and when HD became a thing, it became a poor quality service. I was with cable briefly and will never leave Directv as long as they have Sunday Ticket and the best PQ! The only DNS I have with Directv are NBC and CW which does nothing to help with NFL...
Having had both a few times, I knew with Directv I would get better HD PQ, less channel drama, and overall good service. By doing so I knew I would be using equipment that was not quite as good, but I was willing to live with that part. The HR44 has been fine.
I remember that. I used that as well to build a poor man's Sunday Ticket. If memory serves, you could also change up which channels you got from week to week. You still didn't get all the games but you got enough to make it worthwhile for a much cheaper rate than the full NFLST.
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I was paying about $138/month with Dish, but DirecTV enticed me with $70/month for the first year. I thought that even when the price went up after a year, it'd be less than Dish. After 1 year, my bill is over $150/month.
Good call. Bloomberg article few years ago:
The only surefire way to meet Ergen has been in court. Under Ergen, the company has racked up a long record of suits and countersuits. What may seem like malicious paperwork to some is aggressive protection of the company’s interests to others. “Dish is unique in that it uses litigation as a profit center,” says Moffett. Other analysts agree.
“I may be the only CEO who likes to go to depositions,” Ergen said at the University of Colorado talk. “You can live in a bubble, and you’re probably not going to get a disease. But you can play in the mud and the dirt, and you’re probably not going to get a disease either, because you get immune to it. You pick your poison, and I think we choose to go play in the mud.”
In a 2001 deposition, Dish’s then lead counsel estimated that the company had employed more than 100 law firms in 10 years. Dish once even sued its own lawyers, Chicago-based Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, only to end up on the wrong side of a $40 million judgment and with an admonishment from a panel on behalf of the American Arbitration Association that its conduct—which included making claims of unethical conduct against the law firm that were “patently false”—was “egregious.”
My question revolves around external hard drives. With Dish it's an easy USB connection to any number of EHD's. I currently have a 1.5 TB EHD with hundreds of hours of movies, concerts, TV series stored. The Hopper instantly recognizes the EHD and has an easy prompt to transfer programming. Can somebody tell me how the H54 would compare please?
Loved the Hopper last time I was with Dish but didn't like the PQ, constant loss of channels & especially below par phone customer service (their Online Reps are much better). When I switched to D* the customer service was so much friendlier & pq was way better, not subjective better either with wife, family & friends noticing immediately. The soft, fuzzy look was replaced with a sharper, crisper picture.
After "cutting the cord" for 2 years I'm back with D* because they've finally gotten the price to features cost right with the dropping of those stupid & expensive HD & DVR fees. Customer service & pq haven't seem to suffer under the new bosses either.
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After "cutting the cord" for 2 years I'm back with D* because they've finally gotten the price to features cost right with the dropping of those stupid & expensive HD & DVR fees. Customer service & pq haven't seem to suffer under the new bosses either.
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I don't know that Dish was around when I started with Directv. Back then, we had to buy and install our own equipment. I have always liked the way Directv was run better than Dish.
I bought a house and could no longer get the streaming only Sunday Ticket. The outside of my apartment faced south, so I had Dish, but not Directv.
Was Directv in 1995 when ti was $800 for single TV setup, left for Dish in 2001 becasue Dish was offering better deals. Stayed with Dish until early 2016 when I moved to Xfinity for Internet and could not resist the bundles, was also tired of the constant rate hikes, fees and disputes. 8 month of hell with Comcast and I was going back to Dish, btu they wanted money for Hopper 3 and their packages were not cost effective. So I bundled with ATT, Preferred Xtra, with 2 TV $66.99 for 2 years becasue I also locked in 45mbs Internet for $50 and voice for $9.99.Also until I left Dish I did not realize how bad their down-rez messed with PQ and assumed everyone else was same, but when I saw Comcast and DTV I noticed their PQ is far superior. I get more for less with DTV and better PQ to boot. My trade off is limited to 5 tuners (never was a problem before) and less advanced DVR, although some of its features are nicer than Dish and anything beats X1 form Comcast, it is an ancient piece of junk.
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