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I'm moving to a new house in Connecticut next week and am considering my TV choices. Basically my options are Comcast or one of the 2 satellite TV outfits. Comcast's HD selection in my new home town is wretched especially when compared to what they offer here in New Hampshire (no Turner Classic Movies HD, no Discovery HD, no Cartoon Network HD, no History Channel HD, and on and on). Dish Network has the channels I want, but I'm concerned about the little dish's susceptibility to interruptions caused by weather. Would Dish Network subscribers on AA share their experiences with the service? Thanks in advance for your help!
I pulled the trigger on a Dish Network contract today.
One thing, if it snows you may need to brush the snow off the antenna to get reception. I live in NM and it happened to me once. Fortunately where I live (ABQ) the snow doesn't stay long - usually.
Call em, tell em you can get cheaper rates for the same services from "just name a provider" (you can) and you want to disconnect. They'll drop your bill in return for another 1 yr committment.
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
What kind of weather do you have? I live in central California, and have only had two episodes where we lost the picture. Both were during heavy downpours (yellow/red on weather channel radar), which is fairly rare for us. HD is very good.
I live in the New Orleans area so we do experience a lot of stormy weather (you may have heard about it). Dropouts are definitely a real possibility here and I have had some last for the better part of 30 minutes (not often). But, I've been with them since '96 and for many of those years carried cable service simultaneously to fall back on as a "spare tire" during rain fade episodes. Last year, the basic cable package went north of $300 annually causing me to re-evaluate so now I am soldiering on with just Dish.
Picture quality on cable subpar compared to Dish. During peak hours, service calls can involve waits up to 20 minutes but the tech help is competent and intelligible. Overall, more upside than downside.
Oh, and back to the "stormy weather"...my house sits about 30 miles west of where Katrina's eye came ashore and when I finally was able to get back to the house, my Dish was still intact on the chimney and didn't so much as have to be reaimed. However, I found a second dish down in the garden that frisbeed in from parts unknown and have never figured out where it sailed in from.
Oh, yes, I know that weather. I grew up in the Beaumont, Texas area. We have very similar weather there that you have in N.O. Of course, when I grew up no such thing as Dish was available (I remember Sputnik!). But I am familiar with that weather! Love California weather, but you have to put up with Ca politics and crazy people...but almost no mosquitoes either...
yea, a bad storm will render you tv-less for a few minutes. I live in Dallas where thunderstorms and winter storms are not uncommon and it really hasn't come close to being a deal breaker. The HD picture is MUCH better than my new U-Verse service (Dropped DISH when we moved to new casa for bundled U-Verse service to save some material coin).
Great DVR on DISH as well and a very intuitive remote with simple to use DVR functions. Expensive but great. One last thng, customer service is first rate and you're talking to a human within a minute or so.
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Dish is great....been with them for 8 years. Granted I'm in Santa Monica with about the best weather going. Can't remember the last time there was a glitch in reception. The dual DVRs are great and you don't need line of sight for the 2nd remote. I like the menu system...instantaneous with no need to update. I don't have a fancy A/V system but I do use an HDMI switch for multiple sources and some DVRs are known not to work well with these switches...but I've had no problems. No reason to change to DirecTV and I'd never go back to cable...but I don't live in snow country.
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