[Jazzper]

I've had Comcast, Verizon FIOS and Dish Network before moving to TV permanently 2 weeks ago. Comcast service is definitely the worst (possibly of any vendor except Sirius) but was followed closely by Verizon.

Customer service with Dish on the other hand has been extremely good for a company that large. It rarely took more than a few minutes to get thru to a live tech support person when needed.

I went with Dish over DirecTV a couple of years ago only because I liked their packages better. Seems DirecTV is more oriented toward sports packages while Dish was more movie-oriented...or at least they seemed that way at the time. Friends up north who had DirecTV seemed to like their service -- it seems they all leapfrog one another when it comes to monthly deals.

Not sure about DirectTV but there is one feature with Dish that I really enjoy -neither Comcast nor FIOS have it. That is their dual-tuner boxes that let you run 2 TV's (1 HD with or w/o DVR and one regular TV) off the same box. They don't have a dual-tuner HD one...yet. The second TV uses a UHF remote so its signal can go thru walls to the box in another room.

So therefore, I have an HD dual-tuner box with DVR that connects to my big HD screen in living room and a smaller TV in office/den and a second HD dual-tuner box (w/o DVR) in the master BR that connects to that room's HD TV and a second non-HD one in BR #2.

I went with Embarq (Century Link) for internet service and no complaints there either. Comcast will never see my money ever again!!