Please bear with me as I'm new here. I'm thinking of making the switch from Dish to Direct and would like to get as much info as possible before making my decision. First, can anyone living in Buffalo, NY (city and suburbs) tell me how the reception is with Direct? We live in the city and have never lost our signal with Dish, not even during our most recent wind storm! Is Direct as reliable with the signal? Also, can you connect an antenna and use Direct's HD DVR functions with OTA signals? I would really appreciate any input I could get. Thanks
hi
I live out in cheektowaga past the thruway.
We rarely have outages of non-OTA channels. Only in the most severe weather, maybe 1-2 per year and it is flickering or jumping and not a true outage of service.
For the OTA, that can flicker at random times. The only OTA you need is channel 4 because their hd channel is not over the dish yet.
To be honest, I am quite happy with dtv here and have had it for nearly 4 years now.
In related news, does anyone in Buffalo get any locals on the OTA other than buffalo....if so, how do i do it
thanks
ps
when you make the switch do not forget to use the fact that you are a dish customer now to get a better sign up deal. also, be someones referral. also, use the AAA discount if you are one