I'm currently using DISH Network. My comparison shopping of cable and satellite providers available in my neighborhood (Village of Dunedin) made me decide that it had the best price, features and selection of channels I actually watch. Your results may vary, of course. Like all satellites, it is susceptible to outages during heavy rainstorms. Since those typically seem to happen in the afternoons around here and I don't watch much TV in the daytime, it really hasn't affected me. It's my first experience with the "Joey" and "Hopper" boxes and it has been pretty good so far (it's been about a year and a half). The "Hopper" DVR has some ridiculous number of tuners and a huge hard drive so you can record something like 15 different shows at once and store hundreds of hours of HD material. They even have an option to automatically record ALL of the prime time shows from the 4 major networks 7 nights a week and keep them for up to 2 weeks. And you STILL have a ton of disc space left. The "Joey" is a secondary box for having TV in another room. You plug it into a wall outlet and into your TV (no direct connection to the dish needed) and can watch anything that the main "Hopper" box has recorded or can pick up. You can move it room to room pretty easily and you can have more than one if you want.
The only down side to DISH I've found is that, like ALL other providers, they give you a great price for the first year and then it starts creeping upward. I'll probably shop around when my 2-year contract with DISH is up. I might try a cable provider or perhaps DirecTV again (I've had both DISH and DirecTV back in North Carolina and Michigan). Or I might try "cutting the cable" and go all internet-based. Trouble is, I haven't found any single internet-based TV provider that has the exact mix of channels that either my wife or I watch.
I forget exactly who I got to do the DISH install for me. If I recall, it was a store up on 441 near the Sam St. John's seafood restaurant. The installation was quick and easy as the houses here are all pre-wired for cable and satellite. You must need a southern exposure. My dish ended up on the roof on the side of the garage as our house faces south. We've never had a problem with the dish or any of the equipment so far.
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