Re: Direct TV?
I had Direct TV for 10 years and recently dumped it. I still have the antenna on my roof and reserve the right to go back.
I was VERY happy with it until I got a HD a few years ago. I was very happy with their HD channel quality, but found the non-HD channels unwatchable. My brother-in-law has both cable and Direct-TV and on cable, the non-HD channels were very watchable, so I switched back to cable. I am happy with the service.
At the time Direct-TV had only a dozen or so HD channels, and that was all I could watch. Now that I have cable, I get more HD channels and can watch the non-HD's as well.
I know Direct TV has recently upgraded the number of HD channels they broadcast, but I found the quality of these to be subject to a lot of "digitizing" - possibly more to do with trees in the neighborhood than anything else. In a nutshell, I would only consider it again if there was an overwhelming number of HD channels to watch.
I have found that there are weather related outages on cable as well. Just not local weather. The cable systems use satellites to broadcast their signals so I see occasional blips presumably related to weather affecting the satellites in use by the cable providers.
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