Rjm1cc makes a good point. The price will go up significantly after the first year. When you add the additional costs to sign up for the Internet and assume you have a bundle (TV,Internet and Phone) with Comcast they have to be priced separately. We have Direct TV, Internet through Comcast and Phone thru good program with AT&T at $20 per month which covers local and long distance calls. Adding all of this up and comparing to Comcast you will, in the end save about 20% by going to Direct TV and spreading the costs as above. For the first 2 years you can take the sum of Direct TV costs with the discounts on the 1st year and add to the second year and use the average to compare to Comcast. Net: You save some significant dollars. Even at the costs being the same there are very great advantages with Direct TV. (e.g. much better picture, not having to call each month and spend an hour+ on phone arguing about the bill, waiting a week for service when your TV is down vs Direct TV's almost same day, waiting an hour on the phone for Comcast to answer, being able to record multiple shows and play back on any set, the frustration dealing with Comcast which was voted the 2nd worst service company in US.
