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There isn't a month when I don't receive a "come back" offer from DirecTV with very attractive one year rates. I don't take the offers because their base prices have become too high for my wallet, and I'm not one who wants to call and haggle with customer retention every few months in order to...

Annual rate increases from DirecTV weren't the norm until Rupert Murdoch assumed control. One year my package price even went down a dollar or so following some changes that Direct made to their packages.

I've often suspected that the piracy concern was the chief reason for discouraging self installs. I've had both Dish Network and DirecTV, and installed both units myself when the self install kits were readily available at any dealer...the biggest issue was teaching myself how to properly...

I'd be very surprised if DirecTV offered no type of temporary inducement to get you to stay. Dish Family is the better and less expensive of the lowest priced packages that each service offers, but call Direct to see what they might do. I switched from Direct to Dish because of rising prices...

Possibly to make up for the 2007 pricing adjustment--the lower priced packages went up, while Direct's most expensive package stayed the same.

A resounding NO! The annual price increases began around the same time that Rupert Murdoch assumed control of DirecTV...and even though he may be gone now, the tradition is continuing. DirecTV did a great job holding the line on prices during the early years of my subscription. My programming...

My purpose was never to imply that the move to Dish meant no loss of channels. When leaving Direct last January, I could have kept the few channels that I occasionally watched that were lost in the move (TCM in particular), by going with a higher priced package from Dish...but enough is enough...

Rationalize ***what***??? Sir, I had DirecTV from late 1997 through January of last year. Last year's price increase was the final straw for me, so I jumped ship to Dish Network and its Top 100 package. Some channels were lost when moving to that package, but it dropped my monthly rate...

Even with a $3.00 increase, effective February, my Dish Network package is still attractive, pricewise. America's Top 100, with locals, will be under $40 a month--and that's with a two room receiver. Dish also has a terrific promotion, Cinemax for at least 2 years for a penny a year, provided...

My $29.99 package with Dish is the one above the Family Package...it includes both east and west coast feeds of Disney, though I've been disappointed in the channel for years. I miss the early days of the Disney Channel, when commercial free Disney movies made up the bulk of their programming.

The backlash started here, beginning in 2006. Because of a DirecTV increase, I dropped my package from Total Choice Plus down to Total Choice. This year, I switched over to Dish Network and went with their $29.99 a month package, which offers more than DirecTV's similarly priced loss leader...

AT100 does indeed offer more, which is why I made the decision to jump to Dish after the latest round of price hikes pushed Total Choice past the limit that I feel comfortable spending for subscription television. The $29.95 DirecTV family package simply didn't have enough of the programming...

He wasn't trolling...every word he said was true. I dropped DirecTV back in January and went with Dish's AT100 package for that very reason...substantially lower price, while keeping most of the channels that I truly wanted to keep.

My own job doesn't seem so bad after reading that story.

My last DirecTV receiver, a Hughes-made Sony SAT-A65A, had a very odd bug. If you unplugged or rebooted it, the receiver could not connect with DirecTV billing. There was a test menu screen that could be accessed with a few keypresses that showed, among other things, the number of calls...

Give it at least until tomorrow for their system to update. I cancelled my DirecTV service recently, and the partial month credit didn't show up online until the next day.

This mirrors my own experience during the past week. I switched to Dish Network on Saturday, after 8 years with DirecTV. The difference in image quality (SD) was noticeable immediately, with visibly sharper/clearer images from channel to channel. This was very unexpected and welcome. The last...

I'm about to, by the end of this week.

Other options? DVDs...the internet...books...outside antenna or the most stripped down basic package that our local cable system offers. I lived without cable or satellite programming for over 30 years of my life, and I'm prepared to live without it again if necessary.

And three of the rate increases DirecTV has hit me with have been since 2004. I'm sorry, guy, but it's getting to be a bit too much...from $37.99, to $39.99, to $42.99, and finally (had I stayed with the package) to $45.99 as of March. I downgraded this time as a result. I'm not addicted to...

If enough subscribers would downgrade, that would indeed send a message/"punish" DirecTV. In early 2004 I was paying $37.99 a month for Total Choice Plus without locals. Shortly afterwards it became $39.99...then $42.99...as of March, that same package would be costing me $45.99 a month, had I...

Amen. I had the opportunity to downgrade from Total Choice Plus via the DirecTV website on Friday, but held off. This afternoon I went back, only to discover that the option to downgrade via the website had been taken away. This actually made me more determined to get it done immediately...had...

I'd like to see more of these channels begin supporting themselves with the advertising dollars they take in, the same as OTA stations. Instead, they have it both ways...take in money from scads of advertising and late night infommercials, and soak cable companies/satellite providers with "per...

So where does it end? Eventually sending an entire paycheck to DirecTV?