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    DirecTV not sympathetic to death in family

    I think a lot of the decline in "customer service" has been due to the increasing losses experienced from delinquency over the last year. As the number of accounts delinquent grows, DirecTV (and any other company) can ill-afford to let customers go further behind in payments. In this...
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    DirecTV not sympathetic to death in family

    I believe it is more the place of the son to help out the dad than it is DirecTV's. How can we expect DirecTV to be more financially responsible for this man than his own son?
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    DirecTV not sympathetic to death in family

    From the leadership of the other site, I have heard much more even-handed discussion. The whole backwards logo thing was nothing more than sour grapes that adults could not follow simple rules about participating in a program. It is beyond me why adults cannot see two sites with benefits...
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    DirecTV not sympathetic to death in family

    Scott, neither is perfect. But there is no point in you denying a considerable bias. You have your reasons and I respect them. But DirecTV will never be your preference and that has always been obvious.
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    DirecTV not sympathetic to death in family

    I do feel very sorry for your loss. I do not envy you or your family what you are going through. That being said, I do not know how we can expect DirecTV to behave very differently. DirecTV service is not water or power. It is a luxury/convenience item. What has changed over the...
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    Good Article -

    Here is my biggest issue: the same people complaining about a lack of HD channels used to complain about HD Lite. You can have some of the channels in great quality. You can have all of the channels in crappy quality. But you can't have all of the channels in great quality. Dish has added...
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    Direct DVR vs Dish

    People hate learning two ways to do the same thing. It could be a GUI 10x better than the TiVo and many people would still hate it. Many people hated TiVos when they came out because there were more complicated than their VCRs. What many people hate most is change.
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    Direct DVR vs Dish

    Here's the most important thing to remember: many people hate change. A good percentage of the population show brand loyalty to the first brand they bought. People that had a TiVo might show unconditional affinity for its interface. A guy whose first DVR was a Dish 622 might never want to...
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    DirecTV Will Pass On Epix

    Read a little more about Epix and this will be clearer. Epix is pitching itself as a premium movie network with similar fees to the provider, but wants to be included in base packages. They want to drive up the cost of the base package and not be an itemized package. Not so surprising that...
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    DIRECTV Offers Advanced Screening of Feature-Length Motion Picture 'The Burning Plain

    A 24-hour limit is probable, but they are positioning this as an alternative to a trip to a theater (which has a built-in time restriction) as opposed to a rental.
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    DIRECTV Offers Advanced Screening of Feature-Length Motion Picture 'The Burning Plain

    It's cheaper for one person to watch it at the theater. This does not hold if you have a few people watching it at home (for one price) versus the theater where everyone is charged separately. The HD Net Movies that show before theatrical release are from Magnolia Pictures, which I believe...
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    Sunday Ticket - 1080P

    1080p24 takes no more bandwidth than 1080i60. 1080p60 takes more bandwidth than 1080i60. DirecTV only sends 1080p24, but I wanted to be clear.
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    DIRECTV HD?

    We will be getting them later.
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    BBC America HD?

    Here's the timeline as it normally works: HD Channel is announced HD Channel signs carriage agreements Providers identify bandwidth for channel HD Channel goes live for distribution Providers send signal to their subscribers BBC America knew that step 3 was a problem. They...
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    Why Why no BBCHD

    You know, if these channels had launched their HD counterpart a year or so ago, they'd have made the bandwagon... I guess it's DirecTV's fault the channels didn't have it together then.
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