[PennBF]

Has anyone had experience with Direct Tv? What is your opinion?

[beeber]

We moved here in September and subscribed to Direct TV. So far the service has been perfect. The only thing to look out for is that Direct TV gives you free HBO, Show Time, etc. for the first 90 days and if you don't contact them to decline continuation of the premium channels after 90 days they will bill you.

[memason]

I have had good experience with DirecTV. Lots of HD channels. Only caveat is that it could go out for short times during heavy thunderstorms.

If you decide to go with DirecTV, I can save you $100. PM me if you're interested...

Mike

[ladydoc]

Originally Posted by PennBF

Has anyone had experience with Direct Tv? What is your opinion?

We have had direct tv in every house we have had and never have had any problem with the service. Anyone with direct tv can save you $100 on the service in the form of a $10 discount per month for 10 months. You and the person who referred you both get the discount.

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by memason

I have had good experience with DirecTV. Lots of HD channels. Only caveat is that it could go out for short times during heavy thunderstorms.

If you decide to go with DirecTV, I can save you $100. PM me if you're interested...

Mike

I too have had DirecTV for 12 years and am a fan. Ditto to the problem of going out during storms, the only downside.

[LvmyPug2]

We've had Direct TV since August here in FL. We also had it a couple of yrs "up north" We are fans, but I will say we rarely, if ever, lost reception up north, but down here it happens more frequently, especially in the summer, when you get those down bursts that only last a few minutes.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

We've had both Dish Network (in the past) and DirecTV (currently). Switched because, at the time, Dish didn't have a couple of stations available in HD that DirecTV did.

We're happy with DirecTV. Nothing's perfect but they're pretty darned good as far as I'm concerned. Superb picture quality - we've become spoiled!

Beware (with either provider) of what constitutes a "free standard installation". In DirecTV's book, a standard installation includes a roof mount antenna/dish, not on a pole mounted in the ground. (Why? I have no clue! Baffling....) The vast majority of the installers are independent contractors - if you want your antenna pole-mounted, confirm your cost in advance. Old threads on the topic have feedback on the antenna installation varying from no cost to over $100 for the antenna install, I believe. Verify the charges with the installer prior to him/her beginning the work. Some have been successful with making a call to DirecTV at that point to work out the cost.....and have been able to get the pole-mount install for free.

Bill

[CarGuys]

Any problems in TV with a Direct Dish's angle of reception? Or is there a good line of sight to the sky?

I have had it up North here and the service was good the pic quality very good.

Only bad part was going out in four feet of snow to brush off the snow or freezing rain preventing a picture.

Ohhhhh gee that won't be a problem in TV right!

Herv

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by CarGuys

Any problems in TV with a Direct Dish's angle of reception? Or is there a good line of sight to the sky?......

No problems with that for us, Herv? Our patio villa backs up to a CYV wall. Though we had to keep the pole-mount antenna pretty close to the house, the antenna points over the wall and between the roofs of the two CYVs behind us.

Appropriate line-of-sight will depend on the scenario around your house - other homes, landscaping, etc. to the south of your antenna.

Bill

[John_W]

We switched from Comcast to Directv four years ago back in Maryland and at the time tripled the amount of HD channels for about the same price, we went from 30 to 100. Also way more sports on Directv, and when you subscribe to Showtime and Starz and pay $24 extra. On Comcast you get one Showtime and one Starz channel in HD, on Directv you get 10 Showtime and 8 Starz channels in HD. The same can be said with HBO and Cinemax, I wouldn't have anything else but Directv.

Moved here in July and brought our Directv boxes with us and had Directv immediately installed with NFL Sunday Ticket added, means I can get any NFL game regardless of what's on the local channels. Our HD reception in Maryland was as good as Comcast, maybe a little better, but here in Florida it took my 50" Plasma TV to the same clarity level as my 120Hz 40" LED TV. Meaning, it is even better, the installer said probably because I've got a newer dish that my previous home and we were switched from component cable to HDMI cable, now it's crystal clear.

I never had the problem with snow collecting in the dish back in Maryland. We would lose reception during a rain storm both there and here but that can be eliminated if you switch your on-screen guide to all channels and then tune to the non-HD version. For example if you're watching HGTV HD on channel 228, when it rains go to the basic channel 228 and the channel will appear unless it's a major downpour.

[CarGuys]

Thanks John and Bill!

Our back yard faces due South. Hope they can shoot between or over some pretty Tall Oak trees!

H

[John_W]

Were in a CYV but the backyard faces north. Directv put the dish on the roof near the edge 15' behind the gate on the entrance side. This way it's up and out of the way and you don't have to worry about hitting a pole or something if they mounted on ground level. It appears to point almost straight up and we have no line-of-sight problems at all.

[CarGuys]

Originally Posted by John_W

Were in a CYV but the backyard faces north. Directv put the dish on the roof near the edge 15' behind the gate on the entrance side. This way it's up and out of the way and you don't have to worry about hitting a pole or something if they mounted on ground level. It appears to point almost straight up and we have no line-of-sight problems at all.

Kool!!!! We had Direct TV and Fios Black Fiber. SPOILED ROTTEN!

Now renting a home with MUD RUNNER Slow!

[RCR]

I'd advise you not to contract with Direct TV. During our thunder storm season which last about five months the storms arrive anytime between 3 and 6PM. All you get on your screen is "Searching for Sattelite". Had them out several times for adjustment of the Sattelite. TO NO AVAIL!! Also, we have frequent outages of electricity some very short some for long periods. Regardless of the length of shortage, each time you will have to reprogram your remote. If you tire of this and try to cancel they will charge you a substancial fee for early termination. I went back to Comcast and have had very little problems.

[aljetmet]

Never had to re-program a remote after an outage. I use RF for my two DVRs and no problems.

Haven't heard of such problems in the last 18 months when discussing Directv.

Been a customer in Memphis for over 11 years.

Notice they have a great deal going on for new customers.
(I want the deal when we move early 2013)

Anyway also rec'd an email from them that for $150 you can download any DVR recorded program to your smartphone or PC automatically.

Also for those that do not know, you can access any recorded program on your DVR and watch on your PC. If you have more than one DVR you can do it. (DVR and PC must be on your home local network)