Is it worth...

[Hock]

switching at inferior equipment, slower guide responses, losing a whole house DVR system, less DVR space, Auto Hop, etc because you can't watch 8 new episodes of Breaking Bad and Walking Dead per year?

Frankly I'll keep my great Hopper set-up, great guide and the best DVR in the industry, and watch Breaking Bad on ZUNE.

I would rather all this energy be spent on getting ESPN U and News in HD.

 

[primestar31]

Thanks for your opinion.

I originally switched from Charter cable and got Dish Network for VOOM. Charley destroyed that, now I no longer have MonstersHD and the rest. I originally bought all my own equipment, and installed it myself to save money on not having a contract. Charley charges me dvr fees anyway as if I'm leasing. I kept Dish because of AMC and IFC. Charley got on his high-horse, and like a petulant child took his baseball home. Now I can't watch "Hell on Wheels", or "The Walking Dead" without spending even more money. My fee's have gone up $25 a year versus when I started 6 years ago. Now even BlockBuster dvd's only come once a month because they don't mail them out anymore, instead of twice a week like they were which ruins that part of the "Dish Experience".

Maybe you can continue to deal with all that because of a SO CALLED better dvr (that acts up, has to reboot every night, and they STILL can't design a firmware to fix one problem, without breaking 3 other things!

WTF is next???

As for me, I'll do what's best for me, as should anybody else. If that means going to somebody that has what I want, at a price I want to pay, and stops all that ongoing nonsense drama with Charley, that's what I'll do.

 

[Hock]

Well put Primestar. If I got Dish solely for Voom, AMC, IFC, I would bail too. But I couldn't even tell you what those channel numbers were.

I just compare my experience to my other friends who are similar users and have Comcast, Direct and RCN. Their problems with equipment and their jealousy of what I have (mapped down channel numbers, Number of HD channels, responsive dvr, great search with Hopper, PT Anytime, etc) out weigh me having to watch Breaking Bad on the xbox.

 

[Tampa8]

Well put Primestar. If I got Dish solely for Voom, AMC, IFC, I would bail too. But I couldn't even tell you what those channel numbers were.

I just compare my experience to my other friends who are similar users and have Comcast, Direct and RCN. Their problems with equipment and their jealousy of what I have (mapped down channel numbers, Number of HD channels, responsive dvr, great search with Hopper, PT Anytime, etc) out weigh me having to watch Breaking Bad on the xbox.

EXACTLY.

 

[RebelWithaCause]

switching at inferior equipment, slower guide responses, losing a whole house DVR system, less DVR space, Auto Hop, etc because you can't watch 8 new episodes of Breaking Bad and Walking Dead per year?

Frankly I'll keep my great Hopper set-up, great guide and the best DVR in the industry, and watch Breaking Bad on ZUNE.

I would rather all this energy be spent on getting ESPN U and News in HD.

Some people like paying for HD-Lite. Aside from Auto Hop, you get all of want you claim to want from Directv. Keep losing HD channels and there won't be many left.