Switching from TWC to DirecTV
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I recently switched from Cox cable to DirecTV. One thing I noticed is that I do not receive Ch4 San Diego and MOJO. I found out that MOJO is only offered to cable companies, which kind of sucks cause I got laker games sometimes on MOJO (via NBA TV), and I have to pay for NBATV with directv. Ch4 San Diego I don't mind not having because frankly the only thing on that channel is Padre games.... and um... I think there's like 3 or 4 people on earth that watch them play 
Oh yeah.. on a side note.. I got my bill yesterday (signed up on Saturday and had them install it) and the rebate was for only 10 bucks a month!?! What gives, it's suppose to be for 20!
HD in all it's creamy goodness. The switch from Comcast to DTV was the great thing I ever did. Worst thing I ever did? My original switch from DTV to Comcast. That lasted about a year and half.
Here's the thing, in the short term DirectTV is definitely the way to go for HD goodness. Longterm, cable will be able to compete and best whatever offerings you get from DirectTV. Already cable companies are ramping up installation of the necessary infrastructure to get fiber into all of the neighborhoods. If you look at what's on the horizon for cable, it won't be long before you are coming back. DirecTV will always have to deal with a constant in terms of bandwidth and lag, while cable will be getting exponentially better in those areas over the years.
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you may have to call dtv several times to get your rebates that you're supposed to get. by the time they sent the forms to my father (after calling them several times) he was out of the rebate period and so had to bitch them out for a bit to get it.
Directv will also auto-renew any special subscriptions you make (ie. NFL Sunday Ticket) which may require several phone calls to cancel if you need to. They almost never take care of my concern the first time, but eventually they make it right.
Also, threaten to leave them after a little while and they will usually hook you up with some freebies or monthly bill credits to keep you as a customer.
Also, threaten to leave them after a little while and they will usually hook you up with some freebies or monthly bill credits to keep you as a customer.
TWC has those. Most of the programming on DTV's "new" channels isn't HD.
Oh, and your picture quality won't be as good, and you'll lose reception in the rain. Which everyone likes to respond with "so what how much does it rain anyway?"...and the answer is, if it's raining, that's when you're inside watching TV.
shiner
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the rain issue isn't that big of a deal. Living in Oklahoma we get a ton of thunderstorms, severe weather, tornadoes, you name it. On DirecTV we only lost signal twice through a ton of bad weather. Once when there was a massive thunderstorm just to our South and the second when a tornado went by us 2 miles to the South.
I hate DirecTV because their equipment sucks and they refuse to do anything to fix it. I went through 5 HR-20 DVR's before I finally had enough and canceled my service.
Muadib
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What problems did you have with your HR20 boxes? I've had mine for about a month now, and I like it so far. I just got a 1tb hard drive for it, and love the eSata interface. It took hours to upgrade my HD Directivo box, but the HR20 was recording is five minutes.
They also have a beta going for their on demand service for the HR20. I haven't tried it yet, because I need a way to network my box. It sounds cool though.
This was a more valid concern many years ago but now you need a pretty significant storm to lose reception, the kind of storm likely to cause your power to go out anyways.
DT4K
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Apparently, this is a YMMV thing. When we had Dish about 2 years ago, we lost signal all the frickin time. Now we have cable, but we have several neighbors with DTV. They all have issues when there is heavy rain, which is pretty often in Charlotte, NC.
We've had TWC since moving here almost 2 years ago and been pretty satisfied with it.
Pros: In 2 years, we've had our cable go out once for a couple hours. HD picture quality is fantastic. HD DVR's for $5/month each.
Cons: Their DVR's suck. They get the job done most of the time, but the interface is lame, you can only see 1 week ahead on the schedule, they don't have some of the features that Tivo's have, and the hardware is flaky. In 2 years, we've had to replace a DVR like 3 or 4 times. It's a pain, but at least it doesn't cost me anything.
lokiju
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I've had DTV and did not like their service at all.
And regardless of what people will swear up and down to. It does cut out due to bad weather from time to time.
In the summer that is the worst. Last summer it'd start to storm every day around 8:00PM for a few weeks and that was always prime time recoding time.
I'd get home from work and go to watch the shows that recorded the night before and they'd just cut out and be unwatchable the whole time, pissed me off to many times and I went back to Comcast HD with DVR and never had an issue.
And regardless of what people will swear up and down to. It does cut out due to bad weather from time to time.
In the summer that is the worst. Last summer it'd start to storm every day around 8:00PM for a few weeks and that was always prime time recoding time.
I'd get home from work and go to watch the shows that recorded the night before and they'd just cut out and be unwatchable the whole time, pissed me off to many times and I went back to Comcast HD with DVR and never had an issue.
Spineshank
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Im switching from Comcast to DTV in a week. My parents have DTV so at least i know what im getting.
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