Dish or Direct?

[whirlcool]

Another thing I noticed is that if you have Dish Network and want a HD signal, you'll have a dish farm on your roof, multiple dishes whereas with DirecTV you still only need one dish.

Before I got DirecTV I had heard that they had customer service problems, but several years ago they worked on this and resolved most of the problems.

I think most of it boils down to your local installation personel, if you have contractors you may or may not get good service, but if you have actual employees of the service, you won't have any problems at all. I know DirecTV followed up with a phone survey the day after we had their service installed. They asked questions like was the appointment on time? Were you happy with the installer? Was he polite and did he offer to give you instructions on how to use the system?
So it looks like they are making an effort.

 

[whirlcool]

For What It's Worth.....

DirecTV has the LOGO channel on it (263).
There may be some interest here for that....

Toggle, are you there?

 

[cleanteamofny]

Toggle, Channel 263 belongs to us are you watching!
Scream if you know what I mean?!?!

Anyway, I've been a Directv customer for 9 years and love it to death! I've put in my own system and upgraded to Tivo and the guys that installed the system were shock to see that I had three splitters on my line and according to them, my system should not have worked but I got a TV in the kitchen and receiving basic channel while the living room carries the box. They were ghetto kids from the project that installed the box and done a nasty job installing the wire across my doorway in which I will have to redo when I get a chance but the service is excellent except when there are heavy thunder/snow storms.

I rather have a system that goes down on me for one hour than one that can take up to two weeks to get it up!
Totally frustrating! (pun intended)

 

[frigilux]

I have to vote for DirecTV, too. Better for movie lovers, especially.