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...show and a live show, and one touch to Now Playing (vs. TiVo's two), but, overall, I have been stunned by all that we were missing by keeping D* and thinking we were getting a good deal. Oh, and Mrs. Camper is happy because she kept TiVo software-she never would give up her legacy DirecTV...

Your boss should be in jail. What he is doing is illegal. Report it to the local police and get out of there, or you will be joining your cheating boss in jail. Finding another job is no picnic, but it beats being in jail and paying for lawyers.

Overall, we are very, very happy with our switch from D* to FIOS. Here are some random thoughts and comparisons if you are ever thinking about leaving D*: Things we'll certainly miss about D*: 1. D's terrific sports coverage and packages-none better 2. Channel 101 3. The "list"...

...package breaks like "free HD" for six months (worth $60). The second was to up the offer after we had not answered several more calls. We told D* that we really had not cancelled trying to "get something" from them, and that we really did not want any more phones calls or offers. We...

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...pixellated some. Not a big deal, but irritating to me, especially since I could not stop it. I think our high wind issue is not typical for D* consumers, but most of our other factors may be. We had previously lived in a golf course neighborhood which was the second in the country to get...

Thanks riffjim. I had gotten just one FIOS box here in my little upstairs man den, and messed with service and capabilities for a coupe of months before we changed everything. Thank goodness the new TiVo premiere came out just at the right time! Our daughter has FIOS at her house and has...

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...family room and use them all. Get someone who knows what they are doing and wire for the future, and maybe not just DirecTV secific. We had D* for fourteen years and just switched to FIOs.... Happy building! P.S. you could even future wire for active speakers. Two friends of mine...

...for rightness, or that FIOS is better than DirecTV, or DISH, or anyone else. We only set out why we severed a fourteen year relationship with D* for anyone interested in it, doubtless that latter number is small. Many of our reasons could be easily counted, read in a contract or...

...what the fix is than they do, but DirecTV persists in sending them because they don't believe us. 5. A general impression of overall bad D* customer service, high costs for what you get (and niggling extras which nickel and dime you to death), false, misleading and deceptive trade...

...and satellite and went to FIOS than the number who kept whatever service they were on. I am still waffling and have both, FIOS in one room and D* in the rest of the house. My dislike for the FIOS DVRs is so intense that I'll have to buy TiVos and get cablecards if I want to switch...

...had three owned boxes changed out under the protection plan, and they were all replaced with leased boxes, despite emails, calls and letters to D* by us protesting this and wanting our replacement boxes to be owned. I have emails from D* saying that what you say is absolutely NOT their...

Another "highly qualified" DirecTV installer. In all our years of DirecTV service, we have only had one guy who knew what he was doing and had good product knowledge. He was a custom installer that we paid, because we did not trust anything in our new house to the idiots from D*.

...be: if the box fails, they replace it. No service fee, no charge, no upgrade, no hassle. what a concept. No wonder most people choose FIOS over D* if they can get FIOS. We are dumping D*, in part because of crap like this which D* pulls on customers. Don't switch to FIOS if you are...

...to do. You'll have to call and make sure they don't, and it's a hassle to get it removed. All part of the ever terrific customer "service" that D* also tells you you are getting. We also have FIOS. The FIOS "protection plan" is simple-if the box does not work, they replace it. No...

...in packages, but if you get a new box it does not extend you, and you do not have to pay for replacements. Oh, and that stupid "HD plus" that D* makes you pay for, with HD NET movies and MGM, etc.? No fee from FIOS, and no special fee for HD. Although I like the D* DVRs better, I find I...

...so she can work the software and menus, but it seems we get closer to the switch every day. Also, North Texas has been plagued with endless rain over the past month, and I've gotten really tired of my D* picture pixillating out and my DVRs recording only partial shows because of loss of...

...but Scott has reminded me of all the drama/delays surrounding that release, and subsequent releases. There are some excellent things about D*, but their management of change and software are not among them. I actually think switching away from D* is a pretty close call. Since I have...

There are always some very good people who work in very bad companies, and in this economy maybe glad to have the job. Stonecold is one of the good guys and has always been helpful on this Forum. It does not surprise me that people have presumed on his goodwill and required him to make this...

Class actions do not usually result in a lot of benefit to individual consumers, but they are often tremendous clubs to bludgeon companies who victimize consumers (like DirecTV) with false, misleading or deceptive acts or trade practicies. I notice that the Court did not make any ruling on the...

...cable having anything to do with a guy who would deal with Comcast. The compatability seems to me to be a much bigger issue than what to do with D*. At least there was no proposed option to just accept his horrible Comcast, which would have really been just WRONG! Maybe the poor guy can...

...I just erased the recordings. We also had some cutesy reminder about "TVMAIL" like it was some benefit to us, instead of an obnoxioous way for D* to push advertising on us. Some of you know we have been trying Verizon FIOS on one of our televisions. I hate the Verizon boxes, menus and...

There are several issues in your story which have appeared far more often over the past six months: 1. DirecTV's false, misleading and deceptive acts and trade practices with respect to customer commitments, owned receivers and cancellation fees. 2. The fact that "leasing" equipment did...

Wow! I'm not an evangelist for DirecTV's interface, but we are currently messing with the FIOS HD DVR to see if we could live with it if we switched. The answer is no. In our opinion, the FIOS box hardware and user interface are the worst in the industry-really awful. On it's worst day...