Comcast vs Direct TV

[FireGuy]

Thinking of making the switch to DirectTV, anyone have any advice. Only issue with Comcast is the price. TV/Internet is running me well over $200 per month and I dont have much extra stuff on there. HBO and NFL Total Access is all plus a basic package. It's the multiple DVR/HD setups that adds another $50 a month to my bill.

[BG]

Doesnt direst tv have the dishes on your roof? I know around here when there is bad weather it doesnt come in and usualy those are the times you want your tv most. But Im not positive, Im getting ripped off by cablevision here on LI.

[FireGuy]

Yes, it is a small dish. I had one of the huge satellite dishes about 20 years ago when they first came out. The only time the weather effected it was when it accumulated so much snow inside it the dish would move a few degrees down due to the weight and lose its signal.

[BG]

I had one of the huge satellite dishes about 20 years ago when they first came out.

LOL , oldschool !!!

[Shol'va]

C-Band used a wider more forgiving beam than the ku-Band that Dish and Direct Tv uses. They tried to compensate by boosting the Ku-signal emitting from the satellites. But it is such a narrow beam that it has to be spot on target and since you are using a dish the size of a large pizza you have much less of an area for the signal to bounce off of verses the big ole 10 foot dish of days gone by. C-Band used to advertise a hurricane proof dish called paraclipse that was the cadillac of dishes, built like a tank and used mainly for the east and west coasts. I think that if we were offered a dish that had double the size we now get for Dish and Direc-TV, that rain fade would be a thing of the past. That is the main issue with the small dishes as a heavy rain and extremely heavy cloudy days will interfere with reception and it usually always hit when you are right in the middle of something great you are watching. but still you get reception at least 95% of the time and with HD or at least what they call HD which really isnt the same quality as you get off air from your local tv HD stations and you can tell the difference. But it's the best thing we have right now and I still enjoy it even on those irritation times and Dish Network offered HD for free for life with free HD receiver upgrades and Direc-Tv did not offer free HD.

[Times Roman]

I've used both, and stayed with comcast due to price. DirecTV has the better pic

we got the tirple play for something like $115/mo (HDtv/flat rate phone/hispeed internet) and then I added netflix for $8/mo.

I am really getting sick of all the gouging going on with the prices. Everybody has got their friggin claws in my wallet.... there has GOT to be a better way!

[Hunter]

I live in an extreme weather area and my direct tv comes in pretty good, In the summer(high winds and at times heavy rain) comes in roughly 95% of the time if not higher. In the fall, freezing rain to heavy rain comes in right around 95% of the time. Winter we get high winds 30 mph or higher at times, down to -40 negative and heavy snow and it still rarely cuts out the wind esp when blowing snow seems to effect in the most or heavy snow fall. Spring seems to be the worse with the heavy heavy rain.

[lovbyts]

There is no choice or option between the two. Drop Comcast 100%. The only one you have to think about is between DishTV and DirectTV, that is where the line gets blurry. I went with Dish mainly because I had them years ago and never once had any serious problem. Pictures was always great, service very good, billing stayed the same and the hacked box i had for 2 years giving me everything except PPV sports was awesome.

Still I think it's 50/50 between Dish and Direct, your choice either way you will be OK. Just loose Comcast. Now if there was only a decent option for internet..... My comcast speeds always test out as T1 or better but I dont download nearly as many movies and porn as I use to so the BW really isnt needed. Now when I use to use NewsGroups and set it up to download 20+ G and walk away. LOL

[lifter65]

im actually dropping directv for comcast in 2 weeeks uh oh, lovbyts.. do you get any extra channels or free ppv's with the basic package without the hacked box with dish than with comcast or directv? maybe ill be going dish instead

[lovbyts]

Yeah because I have one of the premiere channels I also get Starz for free, another one i think. All in all it's OK.

Honestly what I ma thinking of doing is during off ALL TV service and goign with Netflics since they have most all the normal TV series you can watch on demand for free via high speed and you can still pause and rewind them as well as rent unlimited online and several via mail a month for like $9

[Times Roman]

dudes, I used to do all the premium channels. Seriously! You should think about dropping all that expensive crap and go with netflix for $8/mo.

But I don't usually watch that much tv, so tv isn't as important to me as maybe some here?

[lovbyts]

dudes, I used to do all the premium channels. Seriously! You should think about dropping all that expensive crap and go with netflix for $8/mo.

But I don't usually watch that much tv, so tv isn't as important to me as maybe some here?

LOL, isnt that what I said?

[Times Roman]

LOL, isnt that what I said?

uh... yeah, I guess you did...

... my bad!

[ray0414]

i have comcast(comcrap), the girl i was dating last month had direct tv, i absolutely hated operating her direct tv the menu guide was garbage and pissed me off everytime i tried to use it, didnt like the way it was set up either. i hate comcast simply cause i think they are a penny pinching corporation and want to take over the dam world. when my promo ends in mid october not sure what im gonna do cuase the regular prices are overly high.

[solid-d]

Comcast is way better IMO. On Demand rules. Direct sux when flipping though channels.. Takes longer finding something thats on, then it does watching TV. Comcast is def better. Also internet is super fast compared to verizon DSL that direct makes you get..