Direct TV SUCKS...

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tm37

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DirecTV rock because of one thing you can't get anywhere else



NFL TICKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have watched my beloved chargers go 5-6 every week I get to watch the games I want!!!!!!

Other than that I really don't know. I wanted to get the NFL tiket to watch the chargers (I Live in MN) and I have enjoyed every minute of it!
 

Slap

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<< yah but the pron on dish networks rocks. Xtasy is pretty hard core!!! >>


You must not have seen Vivid TV and the Hot Network on DirecTV. I had TWarner Digital cable and it was way more expensive and less quality than DirecTV. With Dish and DirecTV merging, we will probably see costs go up as high as Cable.
 

Helpless

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I just dropped digital cable to get my DirecTV hooked back up....you can pay more for less if you want to; I choose DSS.
 

SnowPunk98

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Looks like everyone likes it personally I dont mainly because of the menu its so damn hard to find anything to watch because it goes so slow and so many channels have nothing on them



<< lock ur tsop/eeprom >>



Whats that mean?
 

Muadib

Lifer
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DirecTV rock because of one thing you can't get anywhere else


NFL TICKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amen. And the picture is outstanding, unlike digital cable.
 

CocaCola5

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I have dish and the picture quality is pretty good but my large roof antenna(local channel) is still superior and without the digital artifacts of DTV.
 

Muadib

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have dish and the picture quality is pretty good but my large roof antenna(local channel) is still superior and without the digital artifacts of DTV. Then your DTV dish is not optimally aligned. I only get artifacts during bad thunderstorms.
 

CocaCola5

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<< have dish and the picture quality is pretty good but my large roof antenna(local channel) is still superior and without the digital artifacts of DTV. Then your DTV dish is not optimally aligned. I only get artifacts during bad thunderstorms. >>



No, not at all, the reciever dish is optimally aligned and the picture has no noise or dot crawls, its a very "digital" picture. The artifacts here is what I would call a haziness mask like quality about the picture, the underlying picture is sharp, but there is this stuff on top of it thats hard to describe. The only time I am aware of this is when I turn over to the analog signal of the local station and compare the two. The difference is very obvious, colors are more much vibrant, there's not a thin mask(almost fog-like) of the above, though the resolution quality of the signal are and does come out looking the same(about 425 horizontal lines I believe).

Btw, I use about a $30 s-video cable for the dss box and regular coax cable for the antenna.
 

Looney

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yah but the pron on dish networks rocks. Xtasy is pretty hard core!!!

Have you seen DTV porn channels? 'pretty hardcore'? LOLOL
 

Pepsi90919

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<< digital cable is "two-way", bad idea to hack two way boxes.. >>

My digital cable box, when I had it, was one way only. Which receiver do you have?