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What channel are you wanting? You understand Someone has to put the channel up before Dish can provide it don't you. Dish has almost all the national HDs even though many of them are not worth having as they are over half full of Stretchovision. Some are not even airing material that is available in HD in HD form they are instead stretching.

AlaJoe said:

What channel are you wanting? You understand Someone has to put the channel up before Dish can provide it don't you. Dish has almost all the national HDs even though many of them are not worth having as they are over half full of Stretchovision. Some are not even airing material that is available in HD in HD form they are instead stretching.

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Don't even try to run that ny me. Dish has nowhere near what channels are offered in HD! Try Speed, CMT, Nick HD, just to name a few. Plus, the fact that my Locals in HD were promised over 2 years ago. Directv turned those on a few weeks back, but Dish isn't in a hurry. When I told them I would switch to Directv for that reason alone, they gave me instructions on where to send my equipment! That's a great way to do business!

jwgreen68 said:

How sad is the fact, that as Dishnetwork subs, we've waited for weeks for announcements of new national HD? But, what we get instead is a lousy statement regarding the Obama channel! Directv news is all over the net the last few weeks, but nothing but politics and lawsuits involving DISH! How long is E* going to sit around and lose subs, while Directv expands and snatches those dissatisfied customers up? It's getting to the point now where it really doesn't matter how many sats E* launches, it won't translate to new channels. What did we get with E11? Oh yeah, EA benefits from that, while the rest of us have to put up with the crappy 129! Thanks Dish!

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I somewhat agree, I was with Direct for about 10 year, I switched over to Dish in March to go to the all HD package, which did cut my bill in half, but when Dish changes packages next year I will be right back at the same cost as Direct.
Having said that Direct is far superior to Dish. The Direct remote is much better the HDDVR is far superior now that the bug are out, many more features with the remote and the DVR. This may just be my opinion but I am entitled to it. Also Direct has much more signal strenght, not just much more, but way much more.

dcbag said:

I somewhat agree, I was with Direct for about 10 year, I switched over to Dish in March to go to the all HD package, which did cut my bill in half, but when Dish changes packages next year I will be right back at the same cost as Direct.
Having said that Direct is far superior to Dish. The Direct remote is much better the HDDVR is far superior now that the bug are out, many more features with the remote and the DVR. This may just be my opinion but I am entitled to it. Also Direct has much more signal strenght, not just much more, but way much more.

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I was also a former Direct customer. I also received a significant reduction in my monthly billing when moving to TurboHD Gold + Locals. Frankly I had a much different opinion and counted many months before I finally switched. I had to finish my last "commitment" before I canceled their service.

As to the remote, strangely my in-laws and other visiting family can pick it up and use it easier than my previous Direct remote. Probably due to the buttons being labeled besides the different colors. I was always forgetting what button did what when it came to the red, yellow, green and blue buttons on the Direct remote. I'd write down full instructions and still have family frustrated with the TV when I'd return. One of them was a CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, so it certainly wasn't due to the "hedge fence" cognitive argument.

Cannot understand where you developed the opinion on the HDDVR being superior, but each to their own. It's just that almost everyone, including posters in the D* threads and professional reviews (CNET and others) agree on the superiority of the ViP 622 and 722 receivers.

DishSatUser said:

Cannot understand where you developed the opinion on the HDDVR being superior, but each to their own. It's just that almost everyone, including posters in the D* threads and professional reviews (CNET and others) agree on the superiority of the ViP 622 and 722 receivers.

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I agree, Superior and Directv HDDVRs, do not go together. Sorry

Hemi 6.1 said:

I agree, Superior and Directv HDDVRs, do not go together. Sorry

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Wait he pays more so doesn't it have to be better.

In my particular neighborhood, over the past three weeks i haven't seen one DirectV install van, but a number of Dish's have been doing installs. Maybe these people are getting the HD only pack, but they still count as subscribers.

jwgreen68 said:

Don't even try to run that ny me. Dish has nowhere near what channels are offered in HD! Try Speed, CMT, Nick HD, just to name a few. Plus, the fact that my Locals in HD were promised over 2 years ago. Directv turned those on a few weeks back, but Dish isn't in a hurry. When I told them I would switch to Directv for that reason alone, they gave me instructions on where to send my equipment! That's a great way to do business!

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I don't believe that CMT or NickHD have had any programs in HD since the channels were added to D*. Speed has some HD programming that I never watch.

NotMe546 said:

Wait he pays more so doesn't it have to be better.

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Sure.