Review by jameswade 
member for 10.1 years, 2488 visits, last login: 1 days ago
lodged 4.8 years ago
 Marshall,Madison,NC
 Contract price not specified.  "I can move my receiver to wherever I'm living at the time" "Poor picture quality" "If you need satellite, try Dish Network"
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I have SD only with a DirecTivo. The DirecTivo works pretty well and it records the MPEG transport stream directly from DirecTV rather than converting back to analog as you would have to with a regular Tivo.
My problems with DirecTV:
Picture quality is worse than any other digital service that I've seen.
Atlanta local channels have terrible ghosting in them, worse than rabbit ears! I cannot gett DirecTV to fix this.
DirecTV have taken away channels that I watch and replaced them with shopping or religious channels - or moved them up to the next tier.
We only watch about 15 channels, but we get the baggage (and bill) for hundreds of other channels. Of course, this is a problem with the whole cable industry.
Customer support is terrible, they don't understand their product much of the time.
I have viewed Dish and DirecTV side by side with identical HD monitors, the HD service on Dish is much better.
Bottom line is that I'd switch to Dish HD if they had decent software in their DVRs. Nothing I've seen is as good as Tivo.
Another problem with Dish is that they require you to have your receiver connected to a phone line or they will charge you an extra $5.00/month.
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