Equipment progressively worse, prices higher, Sunday Ticket over priced..I was a 5 year customer until last month. Cannot deal with them anymore..So yes they will and have already lose customers...
reply to fifty nine the direcTV branded DVRs are really not that bad. i used to think the same way until i wanted an HD DVR and went with their branded boxes. after using them for a few weeks, i was surprised at how well they worked. things were a little quirky coming from tivo, but it was just a matter of getting used to where they placed things and how to do the same things with different menus. i really like the direcTV DVRs now.
reply to fifty nine Series3 TiVos are awesome. They're just way too costly:
1) Cost of equipment 2) Cost of TiVo Service 3) Cost of two CableCARDs
TiVo made a lot more sense on DirecTV where the service fee was smaller (and covered a whole house), and the boxes were partially subsidized. Fortunately new DirecTV HD TiVos are supposedly coming the second half of this year . -- AT&T U-Hearse Your funeral. Delivered.