Hi All,
Hoping you can provide some guidance as I know you're all experts. As background I am a long time Directv customer in Michigan.
I am in process of building a house and had been thinking of Comcast so that I don't have a dish on the roof.
My builder thought that there would be a good view to the southern sky and that a dish could fit on the roof and be rather inconspicuous. So maybe I can stay with Directv. (He also says the picture would be better than Comcast.)
My questions to the group are:
1) If I go with Directv, is it possible to get an installer that will take more time and not run cable along the outside of my house? In other words, hide it somehow? The bottom half of the home is brick and the upper half is James Hardie siding. I'd be willing to pay more for better installation.
2) Is there anything my builder could/should do so that a Directv installer can install the dish and make minimal changes to my house? I'd be sick to see an installer drill through the wall. Maybe the builder can have some type of jack or something installed to minimize what the installer has to do?
3) I will have five or six televisions (depending on whether I put one in the home office). It looks like the Genie (not sure what model number, but one with a DVR) plus 4 or 5 wireless mini boxes should do the trick, correct?
4) Do those wireless mini boxes do a good job assuming good wifi throughout the house?
5) What am I not thinking about that could make a directv installation better?
6) Unrelated to the install, can (or will) Directv be offering 4K channels? Or is this still a novelty at this juncture?
7) Maybe unrelated, but has anyone used AT&T's home security system? I ask since directv is owned by AT&T. I have SimpliSafe and am not pleased with the quality of the hardware (frequent false alarms, CO detector reporting as faulty and then as fine, etc.).
This will be the most expensive house I've ever owned and thus I am very concerned about a poor install that results in holes in the home and/or visible cable. Obviously there are going to have to be some cables, but how do I minimize the impact?
Thanks all in advance.
Hoping you can provide some guidance as I know you're all experts. As background I am a long time Directv customer in Michigan.
I am in process of building a house and had been thinking of Comcast so that I don't have a dish on the roof.
My builder thought that there would be a good view to the southern sky and that a dish could fit on the roof and be rather inconspicuous. So maybe I can stay with Directv. (He also says the picture would be better than Comcast.)
My questions to the group are:
1) If I go with Directv, is it possible to get an installer that will take more time and not run cable along the outside of my house? In other words, hide it somehow? The bottom half of the home is brick and the upper half is James Hardie siding. I'd be willing to pay more for better installation.
2) Is there anything my builder could/should do so that a Directv installer can install the dish and make minimal changes to my house? I'd be sick to see an installer drill through the wall. Maybe the builder can have some type of jack or something installed to minimize what the installer has to do?
3) I will have five or six televisions (depending on whether I put one in the home office). It looks like the Genie (not sure what model number, but one with a DVR) plus 4 or 5 wireless mini boxes should do the trick, correct?
4) Do those wireless mini boxes do a good job assuming good wifi throughout the house?
5) What am I not thinking about that could make a directv installation better?
6) Unrelated to the install, can (or will) Directv be offering 4K channels? Or is this still a novelty at this juncture?
7) Maybe unrelated, but has anyone used AT&T's home security system? I ask since directv is owned by AT&T. I have SimpliSafe and am not pleased with the quality of the hardware (frequent false alarms, CO detector reporting as faulty and then as fine, etc.).
This will be the most expensive house I've ever owned and thus I am very concerned about a poor install that results in holes in the home and/or visible cable. Obviously there are going to have to be some cables, but how do I minimize the impact?
Thanks all in advance.