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Current HD cable user about to make the jump to DirecTV HD, convince me!!

post #1 of 3
12/28/07 at 8:41pm
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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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post #2 of 3
12/29/07 at 12:12am

Re: Current HD cable user about to make the jump to DirecTV HD, convince me!!

I had direcTV for about 10 years, before my recent move. I now have comcast cable.

I can't wait to move into a more permanat house so I can ditch cable again. Since the switch to cable I have had numerous channel freeze-up's, and the hardware they gave me is crap. (Scientific Atlanta HD DVR)

My only complaint when I was a DirecTV subscriber is that when we got a major storm, I would lose signal while the front of the storm was moving through... usually about 20-30 minutes. This only happened a couple times a year.
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post #3 of 3
12/29/07 at 8:50am

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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