Direct TV? any good?
 

thinking about getting this service. does the quality really go to shit when it rains?


thnx

Not rain alone, but when it's stormy I think it can.

Ive never noticed it ever less than perfect dont believe the cable comercials.

i like it

THATS IT, IM SHUTTING DOWN THE INT3RNET

I have a 10 ft dish with a 4DTV receiver and an mgeg FTA receiver. Never has rain fade and approximately 1000 channels, most of them free.

I've had dish and never had problems during storms

I've been using satellite for years now! Started out with a big 12 foot dish when I got fed up waiting for the cable company to finish installing cable in our new neighborhood.

Now I have the small dish from Dish Network. I love it and wouldn't switch back to cable if they gave it to me for free!

Never had a problem with storms, rain or snow. Only had 3 outages in the last 6 years, none lasting for more than 5 minutes.

Go for it, Satellite TV rocks :thumbsup

if you have a tree in the line of sight to the satellite does it interfear with the picture?

I love it and unless it's a big ass storm even if you get interferance you can almost always get a clear picture on a different transponder number. DirecTV rocks!! :thumbsup

I would say maybe five times a year during a bad storm we lose the signal for 1-30mins at the most. 30mins has only happend once durning a real nasty storm.

The only other problem you may find is that you have a tree in the direction that the dish needs to point to but i would guess this is very rare as well.

Depends on how many sats you are trying to hit with one dish too. It seems the center sat on the 3 lnb dish is the one that goes out on me the most often, but like it was already said, thats only 3-4 times a year

Go with Directv and get the HD package :thumbsup

If you have a monster dish I gues it works, I had direct tv and it blewwwwwww

when it's stormy. i guess!

Exactly. DTV is way better then local cable. I would never switch back to cable now. I have directv with local channels and tivo and I love it. When there is heavy winds or storms my dads C-band (huge dish) fades and loses picture but my little directv dish never has issues with any of that. I have never had a problem with my sat.

We went through a hurricane today, and never once lost the signal. If that isn't good, then I don't know what is. DirecTV is :thumbsup .

Satellite is wayy better then cable. For many reason. ;)

Plus, PlayBoy TV is only $15 a month. :Graucho