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Old 08-28-2013, 08:53 AM
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Years ago, rain would really mess up my television picture. Has it improved in especially with the recent rain?
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Old 08-28-2013, 09:06 AM
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I've had maybe two disruptions with Directv this rainy season and my first in TV. Once I had to push the reset button. easy breezy.
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Old 08-28-2013, 09:39 AM
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If we have a serious storm - I lose my direct tv signal. This was why I hesitated switching from Comcast, but their prices just got out of sight. At least it shouldn't be an issue during the football dry season.
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I have had Direct TV for 12 years. Occasionally with heavy cloud cover I would lose high definition reception. Most of the time if I switch to the to the channel that is not high def, the reception would restore. Sometimes, however I would lose both. It really takes heavy dark clouds to block the reception. This year with all the rain we have had, I have only lost reception 2 or 3 times and only for a short time.
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Comcast... no problems.
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We had direct TV for years and loved it so when we moved to TV we had it installed. After a yr of losing a signal nearly everyday during the rainy season we gave up and switched to Comcast. Granted the signal rarely was out for more than an hour but it just became too frustrating for my husband watching his ball games. After we got a couple of glitches fixed right after it was installed, Comcast has been trouble free with no interruptions
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Old 08-28-2013, 03:49 PM
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We love our Direct TV and are willing to overlook the outages during a heavy rain. Of course we do have a DVR and many times do not even know there is an interruption because we are watching a recorded show. Hubby loves to be able to watch his sports after the fact and skate right over the commercials. He is forever telling people not to tell him the score because he hasn't watched the game yet. I have found the service with Direct TV to be really good. We didn't have the same luck with Comcast.
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With football season starting I can't accept any down time.
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As someone mentioned earlier the storms usually affect the high def. The guy who installed ours set up our channels guide to have each channel show up twice. One in high def and one without. When the high def goes out switch to regular. This happened to us in May when the seasons' first tropical depression hit, Switched and never lost a beat.
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I have Century Link Prism. It's not cable or satellite, it's fiber optic. Never goes out.
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I have direct tv up north and comcast in the villages. Signals are lost with direct tv whenever we get any kind of storm. Cable is super reliable ane comparing apples to apples, no more expensive!
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If we have a serious storm - I lose my direct tv signal. This was why I hesitated switching from Comcast, but their prices just got out of sight. At least it shouldn't be an issue during the football dry season.
Do you lose internet too? We have Comcast and have never had a problem, but their rates are getting so high. We got an offer for Direct TV in the mail for $69.64 for the bundle (TV, Internet + phone). We are in the 2nd year of the Comcast promotion and the monthly rate has gone up to $150/mo.
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Old 09-04-2013, 08:30 AM
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We have internet thru Century Link and no, we do not lose a signal with weather. Different services - different feeds.
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Years ago, rain would really mess up my television picture. Has it improved in especially with the recent rain?
Short amswer..NO..Rain tonight and out again..don't bother using dtv..
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Old 09-04-2013, 05:59 PM
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I've got no problem here with dtv. suggest you may have a unique situation def worth calling about.
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