who has direct tv ? Are you happy?
 

My cable company sucks and thinking of making a change, going with extreme dsl and direct tv . thoughts on direct tv

until its starts to pour rain they are good

oh that really happens like the cable commercials say

Yeah when it rains heavy it goes out for abit. Local channels, etc are all analog so the picture quality is crappy. Satelite is all digital, including local channels. In my opinion it is much better. We dropped cable in a heart beat and havent looked back.

yeah it really happens

but it has to be really pouring

We don't have direct tv here

Cable sucks, directv is MILES better then cable... and if you have your dish tuned in for the max sig rain wont affect it, I went though what 6 hurricanes here in orlando and I lost signal for maybe 5 minutes the entire season

I have it and i am very happy.

not liking it much tbh for 2 reasons
1. constant loss of signal during bad weather
2. directTV uses mpeg4 compression so that image quality isn't the best, sometimes looks like a small sized vid opened in full screen mode.

love it. signal only goes out when it absolutely poors and even then, it only goes out for a minute or two

LOL...I love that you always have to get GFY's opinion on things that we talk about away from the boards...haha

yes, directv rules...there is NO cable/satellite system that can TOUCH what they offer

I have Directv, Tivo, and XM Radio all in one package with Directv and I have never paid more than $60 a month

and to those that say the signal goes out during storms, the signal only goes out when there is electrical interference....so, if it is just a basic storm your satellite should not being going out, if it is you have a mis mounted disc....ours RARELY goes out, only when there is an electrical storm with TONS of lighting

we had them come out 3 times until they finally got it mounted right, it has not gone out once in the past 3 months...oh wait, last week it went out for 3 minutes

I dont watch tv but have direct.

I have had Directv for over 6 years, and the only time my signal drops is when there is really heavy cloud cover, and that only happens during really heavy rain fall. Cable will go out to for any number of reasons. Directv is sooo much better, but my bill is alot more than $60/month though...:Oh crap

Directv is awesome. You have to be in a HUGE storm for the signal to drop. Happens maybe twice a year for 15 minutes. I love the HD, Dolby Surround etc.

We dont have any problems with our direct tv. We did have some issues back in michigan when it would snow. If the snow packs up on the dish you have to scrap it off or the reception gets bad.

I'm happy with it. The rain / snow deal depends on your area and your signal strength to begin with. Also where they mount the dish on your house. GO with the HD receiver or even the HD / DVR one and you will be happy!

We have ExpressVu (same as DirectTV, but in Canada). Very happy with it, and since we've had the dish properly aligned (now gets 100% signal), we've never lost the signal, even in heavy snow and rain.

My friends on cable say the DirectTV signal is much better than their cable.

i like it... ALOT

you need a deco for every TV, and they charge additional for it...

with 1 deco you can only use one TV... if you have 5 tvs you need 5 of those.

Directv sucks.

Also, I don't watch more than 1 hour TV per week..

I just wonder why the average north-amercian watches so much TV, instead of going out in their free time. You live only once, enjoy life.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

just because the average north-american has 5 tv's doesn't mean all they do is sit and watch tv... i have 6 tv's in my house, and i watch 1 hour of tv a day if im lucky, atleast 30 mins mon-friday (gotta watch family guy).. alot of people like to not have to watch something their other family members watching, so they goto their own room and watch tv

I get HD with cable. Don't think DirectTV offers that yet, so I'm not switching back any time soon.

Aside from going out during wind and rain and snow, I had no other complaints while I used 'em.

they've got HD

I have direct tv and I love it. I have had no problems with it at all. I also have Tivo from them. Tivo rocks!!!

Directv has had HD for quite some time.

directv has HD, and in fact they will be the largest HD provider by the end of the summer, they have something like 150 HD channels about to be unleashed

I've had satellite here in canada and I would suggest to stick with your cable TV distributor. The digital TV thigny do the same thing nowdays and you don't loose signal.

it sucks in the rain and snow

we had it for a while. If you dont mind having 130 out of 200 chanels being sports, Then go for it.

my friend is very happy with it.

Yep. I have had a very bad time with them. I actually paid for my neighbor across the street to get HBO so I could watch The Sopranos, that's sad every Sunday night mine would go out but his would be fine.


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you know what is funny about all these directv haters

I would love to see any of them get the deals you can get with directv

We have 2 recievers, Tivo (DUAL TUNER), XM Radio and over 200 channels....for $49 a month

like I said earlier, you need to call directv about that.....it shouldn't happen that often...it storms about as much here as it does where you are and ours barely ever goes out. It all has to do with the mounting job the reciever got and the view to the sky...if the mounting is just a fraction off, it will go out the minute it starts raining, and that isn't right, they will fix it for you if you bitch