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AIsmail said:

After nearly 13 years Dish & I are parting ways at my parents home in early June. I'm making the switch to Direct due to Dish's lack of any RSN's in the New York area. Its a change I've been very reluctant to make but all good things must come to an end. I'll still have Dish at my home and I guess I'll be spending more time at my parents. Any advice on canceling it? My contract expires on June 3rd so should I cancel Dish on that date and then make my arrangements to get Direct or make those arrangements now for an install date on or about the 3rd. Not sure what if any difference it all makes but I thought I'd see what you all had to say. Thanks in advance. Much appreciated.

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Well you will be very happy with Directv when it comes to NY sports.

When you place your order with Directv you will need to pay for it that day.
Depending on your credit and equipment you want will determin your upfront cost, could be nothing, might be $500.

What type of equipment do you want?
How about programming?

dtro77 said:

Well you will be very happy with Directv when it comes to NY sports.

When you place your order with Directv you will need to pay for it that day.
Depending on your credit and equipment you want will determin your upfront cost, could be nothing, might be $500.

What type of equipment do you want?
How about programming?

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I'm going to go with the Choice Ultimate Package and I want to do the Whole Home DVR along with 3 additional HD Receivers. Yeah I'm psyched to be able to watch NY Sports again. My upfront cost should only be $99 for the equipment. It baffles me as to why Dish has let the NY sports market go. Its the single reason I got Dish 13 years ago. Sports often means more to people then any other type of entertainment. I guess they figure with the international channels they get enough subscribers in the NY area. The only thing I wish Direct offered would be something like the Hopper where all your tvs had the ability to pause and rewind live tv with the whole home DVR feature. Its cause of the Hopper I kept Dish at my home. It really is pretty impressive.

When/if Direct ever gets the RVU box out the door, you could have an HR34 with its 5 tuners and then RVU boxes at the other locations. Then it would all be centralized management ala` the Hopper/Joey situation.

As it is, it is a bit of a PITA to manage multiple receivers/DVRs with the way D* has it now. If you go with an HR34 with all receivers, then you can set recordings and most other things with the receiver. But you can't use trickplay with live events. A workaround, imo, is to start a recording of the live event and wait a little bit and then start watching the recording. Then you have trickplay available.

AIsmail said:

I'm going to go with the Choice Ultimate Package and I want to do the Whole Home DVR along with 3 additional HD Receivers. Yeah I'm psyched to be able to watch NY Sports again. My upfront cost should only be $99 for the equipment. It baffles me as to why Dish has let the NY sports market go. Its the single reason I got Dish 13 years ago. Sports often means more to people then any other type of entertainment. I guess they figure with the international channels they get enough subscribers in the NY area. The only thing I wish Direct offered would be something like the Hopper where all your tvs had the ability to pause and rewind live tv with the whole home DVR feature. Its cause of the Hopper I kept Dish at my home. It really is pretty impressive.

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I know it may sound dumb, but if you like Dish so much, instead of switching to Directv, did you Try a RoKu and maybe subscribe to a sports pack. Even Smart TV's or even blue rays can subscribe to MLB, NHL,or NBA.

Just a thought, sure it will cost you some money, but you'll get every game. RSN's have nothing to do with NFL so your not gaining anything by switching because of say the Giants or Jets.( Unless you want NFL ST)

dtro77 said:

I know it may sound dumb, but if you like Dish so much, instead of switching to Directv, did you Try a RoKu and maybe subscribe to a sports pack. Even Smart TV's or even blue rays can subscribe to MLB, NHL,or NBA.

Just a thought, sure it will cost you some money, but you'll get every game. RSN's have nothing to do with NFL so your not gaining anything by switching because of say the Giants or Jets.( Unless you want NFL ST)

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Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately you don't get local RSN's with any of the sports packs you suggested. So even if I got the MLB, NBA, or NHL pack all the NY teams would be blacked out. For me to get them that way, I'd have to move out of the NY market.

AIsmail said:

Its a shame that Dish doesn't see the importance of sports. One could argue that sports mean more then movies when selecting a provider considering that their are so many other ways to get movies into your home. This nonsense that they are cheaper means nothing when you don't get the same slate of channels. If AMC goes dark and the major networks decided they don't want Dish transmitting their signals when their contracts expire due to the whole Auto Hop feature, what then? No local programming. I highly doubt my bill go down by double digits and even if it did, who cares? Dish really needs to rethink its position when playing hardball with these companies.

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Just because you value sports over everything else doesn't mean that's true for the majority....

sperry85 said:

Just because you value sports over everything else doesn't mean that's true for the majority....

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I'm sorry but who said I value sports over everything else? Ironically you quote me but draw your own conclusions based on my comment. Last time I checked, the populous spends quite a bit on sports when you consider everything from the pros to high school so I fail to see how I'm in the minority. In the end we all pay for channels we don't care for. I don't watch a majority of the channels I get but what can you do but pay for them anyway. Afterall they are included with the package. I just don't understand how when it comes to sports, all the anti sports people are quick to point out how they don't want to pay for it cause they don't watch it. However its okay for people like me to pay for channels you watch. All I ask is for you to kindly pay for channels I watch in return. & when all is said and done, our bills go up anyway so I fail to see the issue. If my bill is going up $3, why not just go up $5 and give everyone what they want?

lparsons21 said:

When/if Direct ever gets the RVU box out the door, you could have an HR34 with its 5 tuners and then RVU boxes at the other locations. Then it would all be centralized management ala` the Hopper/Joey situation.

As it is, it is a bit of a PITA to manage multiple receivers/DVRs with the way D* has it now. If you go with an HR34 with all receivers, then you can set recordings and most other things with the receiver. But you can't use trickplay with live events. A workaround, imo, is to start a recording of the live event and wait a little bit and then start watching the recording. Then you have trickplay available.

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What's an RVU?

AIsmail said:

Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately you don't get local RSN's with any of the sports packs you suggested. So even if I got the MLB, NBA, or NHL pack all the NY teams would be blacked out. For me to get them that way, I'd have to move out of the NY market.

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That's not correct. With Choice Extra, Ultimate and Premier, you get your local RSN's included. SO you would see YES, MSG and SNY....go to directv.com and see for yourself

dishcomm said:

That's not correct. With Choice Extra, Ultimate and Premier, you get your local RSN's included. SO you would see YES, MSG and SNY....go to directv.com and see for yourself

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He said "instead of switching to DirecTV." It is correct. To use a Roku and a sports pack subscription, the local NY games in the NY market would be blacked out, short of using a VPN or proxy service.

dishcomm said:

That's not correct. With Choice Extra, Ultimate and Premier, you get your local RSN's included. SO you would see YES, MSG and SNY....go to directv.com and see for yourself

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Choice Too!