[Ohiogirl]

but we got it because of sports channels we couldn't get with Comcast and we like the DVR. We switched to Directv about 2 years ago, so not sure what the latest/greatest offers are, and there's also Prism (Centurylink) to consider now.

It may also depend if you are full-time or not. If you're a snowbird and can bring your Directv box back and forth, that would be great. We can't get Directv in our condo up north (no satellite dishes allowed).

If you don't care about any but the basic channels and don't want/need DVR, not sure why you would be considering satellite at all, but I may not understand everything. You do get outages in heavy rain and wind, most of which are when we are up north, but not all.

Customer service has been pretty good - they even helped us by phone to hook up a DVD player recently. The 2nd person we talked to was more helpful that the first, but wasn't even their product.