DirecTV Dish
 

The previous owners of our house had DirecTV and left their "Slimline" dish. Would that be of any use to anyone or does DirecTV give a dish to all new customers? I hate to throw something out if someone can use. Thanks.

kathy

You can pitch it. It's of no use to anyone.

I agree, you could leave the post in case you decide you want satellite service in the future.

Thanks, guys!

k.

its probably direct tvs property. careful throwing it out.

Trust me, they Do Not Want it.

I do not think they will want it but you could write them a letter and ask them to remove from your property or give you permission to discard. Dish does want the TV boxes and stuff in the home and I assume these are not present now.

The previous owners moved out of this house last Summer. If DirecTV wanted their dish back I assume they would have communicated that to our sellers and that the sellers would have returned it. They weren't the kind of folks to leave loose ends. If hubs can figure out how to remove it I will put it out with the trash. Thanks, everyone.

k.

For what it may be worth : About 2 years ago I moved within The Villages . I used DirecTV at the home I sold . When I terminated the service I asked them about the Dish . Their response was " you can do whatever you want with it however we will not send someone out to collect it ".
Also you may have noticed that DirecTV is no longer running ads for their satellite service . They are moving into Internet Service only . As you can imagine the savings for them will be huge as they eliminate the network of service trucks and installation techs .

If Direct TV is headed to streaming does that mean their rates will come down? I think their Direct Now streaming service started at $35 per month. I have Century Link and Direct TV and I am paying a small fortune but I have DDR and fast forward through all the commercials. I don't think I could go back to having to watching the commercials again. Any advice?

Does any one know if you have Direct TV up north, can you just have one account with them and bring the box with you south(as long as you have a dish installed in both location)?

I just moved in 2 months ago and I removed the dish and threw it out in the trash.. If it is on the roof just leave the base plate since it is stuck down with black tar on top of the shingles and screwed..

You might want to think about filling the holes in your roof when you take it down.

Yes, we did that for many years. Now, we just have a box in each house. You do have to call them with each move so they can redirect the "beam"

I would be interested. Have directv up north and was thinking of continuing it down south during snowbird time instead of getting cable. You can message me if you want Joan whiteman dorr