[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by MX rider

Thats weird. I very seldom lose signal here, even when it rains. Must be the difference in geography?

ha ha 30 to 50 times , I think someone’s nose is getting longer,I even had a signal when that hurricane came through and I stayed up that whole night because I was closing on that house and was worried about water as the wind was pushing rain across the golf course very hard up against my sliders . I am interested in how someone gets all the games for free legally

[Kahuna32162]

Just curious, what did all the "cord cutters" do yesterday when the xfinity/comcast internet went down for a few hours? Cable and Satellite all worked fine.

I understand that many businesses literally shut down yesterday because they couldn't operate any of their cash registers or credit card machines because of the outage. Unfortunately, it's a glaring vulnerability.

[JerryLBell]

Originally Posted by mulligan

Direct TV is available anywhere you can see the sky.

Well, that's not exactly true. But they (and DISH Network) are available in the continental United States, which does include the dangly bit at the south end known as Florida. I've had both DirecTV and DISH and actually prefer them (I'm currently with DISH) over the cable companies but I do find that I get more rain-related dropouts during the frequent summer afternoon thunderstorms than I ever got while living in either Michigan or Florida. I have considered dropping them all in favor of streaming but the wife really, Really, REALLY prefers getting 99% of her TV shows from a single source rather than hopping between a handful of streaming services. So it'll be DISH for a while longer for us.

[Boilerman]

Originally Posted by PoolBrews

Please don't listen to anyone that states that an SD picture is "almost as good" as an HD picture. If your eyesight is fine, there is a tremendous difference. The bigger the TV, the bigger the difference you will see. An SD picture on a 60"+ TV looks terrible - like you're watching an old VCR tape.

I was a customer of DirecTV for over 20 years until I moved to Florida. The number of rainouts here is ridiculous. Yes, sometimes you can still get the picture in SD, but it's bad.

All "HD" pictures are not created equal - everybody compresses the signal differently, and some compression algorithms are far worse than others for picture quality. DirecTV, using satellite transmission, has a far more limited bandwidth than terrestrial transmissions (cable, fiber, etc), so they tend to compress the initial signal far more than other companies, resulting in a poorer HD experience (hence why some think SD is not bad on DirecTV).

Get good internet service, and then look at streaming options. I use YouTube TV - it works great. Hulu Live is fine, but look at the costs for DVR and how it works. That was the indicator for me to not use Hulu Live (I tested it for 30 days).

DirecTV stream is more expensive and offers less channels and a crappy DVR, so they were a no go as well.

I get 1GB internet for $65/month, and YouTube TV for $54.99/month (you get $10/month off if you're T-Mobile). No issues, works great.

We’ve had Directv for many years.

1) when a storm comes, I’ve only had to switch to SD for maybe 10 minutes at most before the regular HD picture is available again.

2) It’s true that all TV companies use different amounts of compression for their HD signals. But I can have my DirecTV HD on my main TV with my 2nd TV next to it with an Over-the-area antenna showing the same broadcast and I can’t tell the difference. And I have great vision. Main TV is 65” top of the line. The differences in compression are academic and can’t be seen by mere mortals. JMO

[Boilerman]

Originally Posted by PoolBrews

It's not even close to "Six of one half dozen of another". When I had Xfinity, I lost internet once in 4 years, and that was during hurricane Irma. Since switching to Quantum fiber several years ago, I haven't had a single outage.

When I had DirecTV, outages were daily during rainy season - at least 30-50 times per year. Even if it's only a few minutes, it sucks when you recorded a game, and then the picture is out on the recording for minutes at a time.

NFL Sunday Ticket is about to move off of DirecTV within the next year, but I've found other ways to watch all the games I want at home.

You probably had a weak signal, maybe the dish was not aligned properly? Did you ever get it checked? A weak signal would reduce your margin for signal loss so a minor storm would knock you out when it shouldn’t have.

[ronda]

Originally Posted by RicNic

Is Directv available in The Villages

Direct TV has a streaming product (Directv Stream) that uses your internet connection. We have it and love it. You get the DTV programming and can get NFL Sunday Ticket. No problems with weather that you would get with the old Satellite DTV service.
You can also get movies and it comes with Cloud based DVR. You can also stream to a laptop or phone. Good options for when you are traveling.

Streaming TV over the internet is the future (and present).

[Boilerman]

Originally Posted by ronda

Direct TV has a streaming product (Directv Stream) that uses your internet connection. We have it and love it. You get the DTV programming and can get NFL Sunday Ticket. No problems with weather that you would get with the old Satellite DTV service.
You can also get movies and it comes with Cloud based DVR. You can also stream to a laptop or phone. Good options for when you are traveling.

Streaming TV over the internet is the future (and present).

I think the directv stream is a good option if you like the channels they offer but their base package offers fewer channels than the regular directv. So look carefully at the channels provided by each service.

[EdFNJ]

Originally Posted by Kahuna32162

Just curious, what did all the "cord cutters" do yesterday when the xfinity/comcast internet went down for a few hours? Cable and Satellite all worked fine.

Cable worked fine during the outage? Really? My Xfinity cable went out as well as my internet as did many others who posted in that other thread during the few hour outage. A main fiber cable was cut so not sure how it differentiated between cable and internet service, at least not here. Funny thing was they just ran a new drop (main line) for me about an hour before the outage and I thought their repair guy screwed it up or the lawn guy cut it because they lay it across the grass (it went 2 houses over) until the "cable burial guy" comes which was the next day.

[MX rider]

Originally Posted by Boilerman

I think the directv stream is a good option if you like the channels they offer but their base package offers fewer channels than the regular directv. So look carefully at the channels provided by each service.

100% correct, We've had DirecTV since 1996 here in Indiana. Overall we're happy with it but it's getting expensive. I've considered their streaming service but it's missing a few channels we like. I'm also looking at Youtube TV. For now we're with DirectTV down there since we aren't retired yet. We just switch our service back and forth. When we snowbird next winter I'll probably stream to save money.