Switch from Fios TV to DirecTV

[dpdc77]

I've had FiOS TV for a year now, however I would like to go back to DirecTV for the Sunday ticket and Center Ice packages.

I still want to keep the FiOS Internet. Will the DirecTV installer have to run new cable or can they use the FiOS cable?

 

[fireponcoal]

They will have to run new cable. No doubt about it.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

I've had FiOS TV for a year now, however I would like to go back to DirecTV for the Sunday ticket and Center Ice packages.

I still want to keep the FiOS Internet. Will the DirecTV installer have to run new cable or can they use the FiOS cable?

Wow,this is a tough one. I don't know what I'd do if I had FIOS in my area. FIOS doesn't have NHL Center Ice? How many TV's do you want to set up for watching NFL Sunday Ticket? I'm just asking because could you afford to keep FIOS TV & just set up DIRECTV for one TV(if you are only getting it for NFL Sunday Ticket & NHL Center Ice) & the required base package you'd need to get both Sunday Ticket & Center Ice?

 

[robjlevin]

Depends on how the FiOS installation was done. I have Cat5 from the ONT to my router. When I switch to DTV from FiOS tv, they just used the same coax with no problem at all.

 

[dpdc77]

The Center Ice on FiOS is awful. Only one game in HD a night.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

The Center Ice on FiOS is awful. Only one game in HD a night.

That's what I thought. iN DEMAND,should have known.

 

[The Fat Man]

That's not FiOS fault. They don't carry every RSN in HD nationally. Cable is ran regionally. The national Center Ice provided by the NHL to the providers is SD only with an HD channel or two. With Directv, the HD feeds are provided by Directv. I'd also wait, considering we are still waiting for the owners to not screw us out of another season. As for Directv and FiOS together. If you can find a friend to run wires or do it yourself, you'd be fine having both services. I have Comcast and Dish both running through the house, and that's with a finished basement. I run my wires and just have the respective company install the equipment.

 

[Xdcinc]

I've had FiOS TV for a year now, however I would like to go back to DirecTV for the Sunday ticket and Center Ice packages.

I still want to keep the FiOS Internet. Will the DirecTV installer have to run new cable or can they use the FiOS cable?

You know if you have a ps3 you can get the Sunday Ticket without service with directv.

 

[msgph]

The Center Ice on FiOS is awful. Only one game in HD a night.

Center Ice on Time Warner wasn't any better. The very reason I switched to DirecTV!

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

Center Ice on Time Warner wasn't any better. The very reason I switched to DirecTV!

Don't FIOS & Time Warner both use iN DEMAND for their NHL Center Ice feeds?