Direct TV keeps getting knocks that they have outage when it storms. We changed from Comcast to Direct TV about 18 months ago and I think we had 2 outages for about 1 minute each in all this time. That beats the heck out of Comcast. We had Comcast for years and finally gave up and went to Direct TV. The picture is much better, it is much cheaper, we can record in any room (have 4) and play back in any room. We do have a regret. That is that we did not change over years earlier. It is a little pain to make the change but very very well worth it.