- Joined: October 1999
- Location: Mississippi, USA
- Post Count: 1,509
I have most of the premium services my cable company offers and all of the hd channels as well (30+) I pay almost $120 per month for this and really the premium channels which honestly since Sopranos and other good shows are off, they are really worthless. I am about to make the change to satellite just for the higher amount of hd channels, looks like I am going DirecTv too. For current Directv users PLEASE talk me into this switch. Here is my only hold up, lets be honest, weather it the cable company or the satellite company, all say their service is the best and they are the bomb, but really is one any better than the other? Again, my main concern now is the amount of good high quality hd channels, service and price last.
Help, thanks.
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My Blue-Ray & SD DVD's Current HT setup: Vizio P50HDTV20A 50" Plasma, Pioneer VSX1015TX 7.1, DirecTV HR20-100 HD DVR, Panasonic DMP-BD10 Blu-Ray, SVS 2531PCi sub, Polk R30 mains, Polk CS125 center, Polk R15 x4 rears
- Joined: March 2000
- Post Count: 584
Re: Current HD cable user about to make the jump to DirecTV HD, convince me!!
I have had Time Warner and DirecTv and DirecTV has a much better HD picture than cable. The Mpeg4 channels are amazing to watch and now they have around 80 channels. I have also had very good experience with customer service at DirecTv.
The only downside I have found is on the rare occassions when it rains really, really hard. The signal will go out. I keep a small HD antenna so I can at least watch the local stations during those times.
This happens about twice a year here. I had worse problems with cable when it rained though as they never got the main box (not in my yard) watertight and it went out all the time. I know that is unusual for cable though.
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