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 Review by UHF 
UPDATED: 8 days ago
member for 6.3 years, 2386 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Independence,Buchanan,IA
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 "Choice of channels, HD DVR"
 "Outsourced customer support"
 "The best choice for me"
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I started with Dish Network in November of 1997. I've never been unhappy with that decision.
I had always done a self install until 02/2007 when I upgraded to their HD service which required a different dish antenna. The installer came on time, quickly installed the new equipment, moved my 52" TV to connect the new HD DVR and made sure it all worked properly.
The VIP622 receiver is awesome. I can record three channels while playing back 2 programs at the same time. The UHF remote capabilities of most Dish receivers is a big selling point for me, since I can control my dish boxes from different rooms. I have all my boxes wired so I can watch any one of them on any of my TV's in the house.
We have two cable TV providers in town, and I've checked out both of their offers and for me, Dish provides the best value.
I'm very happy with the new $10 HD Package.
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Review by jcdjr1948
Posted: 14 days ago
member for 14 days, 0 visits, last login: 14 days ago
Sandy Hook,Fairfield,CT
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"Clear picture with good tech help"
"Cannot get local Connecticut tv channels in Fairfield County, only NY local channels"
"Look closely at what you are getting before signing a contract"
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I signed up for the Dish Network through ATT bundles and some information provided by the sales individual was not communicated prior to my signing a 18 month contract. Since I live in Fairfield County, Connecticut, this is considered the New York service area and so I only receive the NY local channels and not the CT local channels. I called ATT and they said that that is the way it is. So to watch the CT channels I either have to subscribe to the local cable service (Charter) or put up an antenna. What a joke!!! As soon as Verizon Fios is available in my area I plan on changing!
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 Review by wings10
UPDATED: 23 days ago
member for 4.3 years, 1457 visits, last login: a few hours ago
South Elgin,Kane,IL
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"Great Price. Awesome Picture"
"None"
"Cheaper then Cable"
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Update: No issues with service. Since switching over to automatic bill pay DISH gave me 5 channels of Cinemax for 2 years at 1 penny a year.
I had DirecTV for 7 years without problems. When I moved I switched to DISH for the dual tuner 322 receivers’ they have. I have 4 TV’s hooked up and only pay an additional $5.00. A savings of $10.00. The second tuner works by a UHF remote and I have had no issues. One receiver in my basement feeds the TV there as well as the TV in the first floor living room. Second receiver on the second floor feeds the TV in our master bedroom as well as a second TV in one of the other bedrooms used as a family/game room. All 4 TV’s can watch any channel separate from the other TV’s. Great picture and price.
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Review by damason1
Posted: 38 days ago
member for 5.2 years, 1154 visits, last login: a few minutes ago
Bradford,White,AR
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"good picture, quick setup"
"Would have prefered to do a self install.."
"I have been pleased with their service."
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I have had Dish network for about 4 years starting out with a pair of 311's and have
upgraded to a 322 and a pvr 501. I switched from direct tv after moving and finding
out that direct would not offer locals in the area where I moved to. The contractor
who did the install did a good job and I have not had any service issues.
I do wish that they would make it a little easier to check a used reciever to see if it
was a leased unit or had a balance on it.
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Review by storm5guy
Posted: 54 days ago
member for 84 days, 23 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Sarasota,Sarasota,FL
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"No signal in rain, pricey, channel packages are weird"
"The worse of the two main TV satellite providers"
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Our satellite service came after cable use, so it was a welcome changes, for a while.
We have had Dish for some time, so I'm not real sure on how it was in the beginning, so I'm speaking from recent experience.
From what I know the installers kind of had free reign of the house to do what they wanted, including running all of our lines all across the outside of the house. Later on when we had the 61.5 satellite dish installed, they pointed it through the trees which I'll discuss more below.
I honestly think the pricing plans are the worst on the planet. $5/month for locals plus another $5 for HD locals? I mean come on, we are already paying for the main channel package plus the other HD channels, you would think that they would give you a break.
The quality of the channels were quite terrible as well. The HD was alright, but I only could really compare it to our neighbors rear-projection TV while ours was an LCD. The SD channels were so compressed it wasn't even funny. You could barely read small text when on an SD channel.
Our other big issue was rain fade. Every time it rained, even a small amount, we would loose the picture. We had the guys out a couple of time for re-alignment, but that didn't help. The main culprit was the 61.5 dish that was pointed through the trees. We had a low signal from that already, that any other obstruction caused it to fade out on all the TV's, even the ones that weren't HD. There were plenty of other spots on our house to put it with a clear line of sight.
All in all, I would suggest DirecTV over Dish Network any day.
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Review by Smith6612
UPDATED: 56 days ago
member for 249 days, 349 visits, last login: a few hours ago
North Tonawanda,Niagara,NY
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"Lots of HD channels that look nice, good selection of channels. Can take it with you on vacation!"
"Nothing besides the dropouts from severe T-Storms, which is rare anyways with a properly pointed dish."
"Great company to get satellite TV from."
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So far we've had DISH Network for around 6-7 years now since Adelphia messed up a while ago, making us leave. We have one of their higher packages (can't recall off hand what it is) that includes a lot of sports channels, good selection of Cartoon channels for the family and of course the news channels. Not to mention Boomerang which is where a lot of my favorite cartoons are still showed.
Installation went without a problem. When the DISH network truck arrived, they took a quick examination at the house layout and the cable system. Once they found out what would be the best way to install the service, one of the installers worked on mounting and pointing the two satellite dishes, one's a DISH 500 dish on the side of our house attached to the siding that points at 110 and 119 West, and another satellite dish on our roof that points to 61.5 West. While mounting the satellites and rotating them, the installer taking care of that job also had some sort of device that measured the signal coming in and fine tuned it. The coax wires from the satellite dishes were neatly hidden from sight, and were secured in place to make sure the wind didn't bump the cables out, and then the cables were ran into the basement. Down in the basement, another installer was installing a satellite switch, that allowed us to use 3 satellites at once and allows us to split the signals into 4 different receivers. Afterwards, the same installer located our telephone wiring in the basement, and ran a new cable to our receiver's location to hook up the receiver to phone home. After the basic equipment was done and we had gotten the house's cable system rewired, the installers pulled our Adelphia line for us and got to work activating our receivers for the first time. Two of the receivers were DP311s, and one of them was a DISH Pro Plus PVR unit with a 60 hour recording space.
Once they left, the service was all set and done. The picture quality was certainly a lot better than the cable was, even when we had digital cable. A few months pass and we've already filled our DVR, and I've taken the time to wire up the TVs to Composite video and S-Video for higher quality. Later on when DISH came out with their dual TV DVR units, we ordered one of those and we still have it. Another installer arrived with the DVR unit. They took the old PVR unit we had and installed our DVR for us, running some new Coax for it as well from the satellite switch and to the location of the TV we wanted to hook up as well. He also attached a DSL filter to our receiver since we had gotten DSL at this time, and activated the receiver. This receiver now has 100 hours of recording.
The satellite signal is rarely lost here. Even though my area is well known for large storms (Buffalo October Storm anyone?), the TV still works through thunderstorms, given it isn't raining too hard. During the Buffalo October Storm, we only lost three channels, which were local channels since the 61.5 satellite dish was being blocked with snow which was the first time we have ever lost part of the system because of an obstruction. Wasn't a problem with us as we could still get to our important local channels via the other dish which was perfectly fine.
Now about the HD. I don't have HD service here, but a family relative of mine does. They've been using satellite TV for ages now, 11 years maybe and recently they got a 1080p HDTV. When they got that, they ordered HD service with the $10 a month extra, and they also got a VIP-755 DVR Receiver that handles two TVs as well. It came with 300+ hours of SD recording space, and around 60 hours of HD recording space. The picture quality via HDMI from the receiver at 1080i looks really nice. The Sci-Fi channel looks very nice, which pleases me considering I like Stargate a lot. There is an Ethernet jack in the back of the receiver which I hear is for VOD and downloading shows to the hard drive via the internet, but right now that's not in use.
Overall, DISH Network is a great company to look into when considering your options for TV or switching from Cable or OTA. Yeah there may be those times where you'll lose the signal, but if it's not storm related, a quick call to Tech Support has always ended up with someone who knows what is going on, and what satellite is not working. It's very rare for a satellite to die anyways. The nice thing about the service as well that, unlike cable, if you have an RV or another vehicle of the sort, you can bring your service with you given you can align the dish properly, but the receiver can help with that should you need it and they have those auto-locking dishes as well that can do the work for you. Their receivers are pretty durable pieces of equipment with good software on them that is stable and easy to use. I recommend this TV provider to anyone, and if your Telco has this provider in their packaging, might as well bundle them with you as it will save you some cash.
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Review by bones200
UPDATED: 57 days ago
member for 88 days, 111 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Randleman,Randolph,NC
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"Very decent pricing, quick installation, help tech support"
"Goes out in thunderstorm."
"Overall performance is great. Just as good if not better than cable."
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For some one that used to have cable. I think it is great. Alot cheaper for same channels. Like listed earlier, only goes out in thunderstorm. Expected..I had Primestar/DirectTv many years ago.
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 Review by zach_lloyd
Posted: 63 days ago
member for 2.4 years, 410 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Greenwood,Greenwood,SC
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"Great HD Lineup, Fairly Inexpensive, Outstanding Picture Quality"
"Requires Ugly Satellite Dish and Receiver for Each TV, Foreign Tech Support"
"Smashes Cable Hands Down"
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If you're looking for HD programming, look no further than Dish Network. My local cable incumbent wanted to charge me >$80 for HD programming...and that was simply local channels + TNTHD and ESPNHD. I get the same plus much more HD programming with Dish Network for less than $50 a month. The picture quality is outstanding. My only complaint is the fact that the service requires a satellite dish outside your home, and a receiver for each TV in the house. Occasionally you'll get foreign people when you call tech support, but I suppose that's a given in today's world.
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Reno, NV |  Dish Network Programming
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join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Re: Dish Network Programming I'm not a big fan of the NFL, so it wasn't really a selling point for me. Besides, the only team I'm halfway interested in is the Carolina Panthers, and my local stations usually carry those anyway. | |
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Greenwood, SC
| Re: Dish Network Programming So I bet with Dish Network HD, you have Mickey ears on your house. . . a dish on each side of the house. I bet that looks great!
Hey, on the bright side, if anyone complains about you not having football, just grab a football, head outside and kick some field goals between your two dishes! | |
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 Review by OldschoolDSL
Posted: 85 days ago
member for 2.6 years, 671 visits, last login: 8 days ago
Indian Orchard,Hampden,MA
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"Clear image and good value"
"Wants money up front"
"I'm still feeling them out (but ok, thus far)"
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I'm in the middle of moving (living in 2 places, move final August 1st, 2008) and have decided to toss out cable. I've officially used both Comcast (Comcrap) and Charter. Charter was the most broken up company I've ever delt with and billing was always a problem. Comcast has more a problem on service and double billing.
Dish Network seems to be an easy setup (they where on time and didn't have me wait long hours, unlike cable who tells you between 7am - 5pm). Image seems just as clear as able (will not know until HD TV is at new address).
The pricing seems to be about the same for the channels I want, but I do get more (not the once I use though).
Like Charter, they did want money up front or wanted a credit card on file paperless billing). Which I still dislike. Cell phones seem to be the only ones who don't ask for such.
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 Review by spm9999
UPDATED: 187 days ago
member for 4.8 years, 2315 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Imperial,Jefferson,MO
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"Great Quality and HD is awesome."
"Foriegn tech support, took 2 months to get set up"
"Would recomend great stuff"
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April 29, 2007
I called mid july of 2006, didn't get service till early September. They were always out of the dish 1000 kit for HD. If it wasn't for me calling ahead to see if they were coming out for install I would of been waiting a few times for nothing. Bad communication on thier part. The local install people were a bit better on communication.
I told them from the begining that I didn't want the dish on the roof. I just got a new roof last year. When the service guy came out he got the ladder out to go onto the roof. I told him noway. So he put it in the yard on a pole. Which is fine with me..
Once setup, it was great. I got the HD with DVR ($200) upgrade. I've had no problems for the most part. Some digital scrambling and I loose connection in bad storms. Nothing big though.
April 03, 2008
No real problems. My receiver went bad and they sent me a new one. Price after one year is just too much. Cancelled locals and the home protection plan. Why should I pay insurance for thier equipment?? If the reciever goes out again I will cancell if they don't want to send another.
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