Personally, as a HT enthusiast who is just trying to get some HD signals fed to my new HDTV at a reasonable cost I feel that this post was very informative to me. I have Directv now and am very dissappointed with the LACk of hd programming available. It's simply not worth it for me to pay my provider 400 bux for a HD DVR thats going to get a total of 8 (this number is likely wrong but not too far off) HD channels (and i see now HD lite being mentioned frequently).
I called Dish to get the scoop and they wanted the 250 for the HD dvr up front for a grand total of 8 available HD channels. ALso the salesman was trying to be more of a closer and not really giving the technical info that I was asking about. I should have guessed that when I was asked for my name address and tel# from the get go. What does that have to do with providing me info so I can make an informed decision?
I realize that the sat providers do not create HD programming they just deliver it. But it seems that there is much ballyhoo being made from the sat providers about how wonderful everything is about to be until it gets down to brass tacks. It seems unfair that people paid big $ for hardware that is not capable of receiving the newly offered channels. The providers should give you the hardware for almost free and realize that people will only take so much before they dump the service, in a sense cutting off the nose to spite the face but people will only take so much.![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I called Dish to get the scoop and they wanted the 250 for the HD dvr up front for a grand total of 8 available HD channels. ALso the salesman was trying to be more of a closer and not really giving the technical info that I was asking about. I should have guessed that when I was asked for my name address and tel# from the get go. What does that have to do with providing me info so I can make an informed decision?
I realize that the sat providers do not create HD programming they just deliver it. But it seems that there is much ballyhoo being made from the sat providers about how wonderful everything is about to be until it gets down to brass tacks. It seems unfair that people paid big $ for hardware that is not capable of receiving the newly offered channels. The providers should give you the hardware for almost free and realize that people will only take so much before they dump the service, in a sense cutting off the nose to spite the face but people will only take so much.