I bought a new house this year, I finally own a little piece of the American dream myself. I was a loyal TWC customer for 8 years, but after seeing DirecTV at someone's house recently, and having heard that u-Verse quality of HD channels sucks compared to TWC, I decided to change providers and take on DirecTV.
I am not one of those "so long suckers" posters that hates TWC, because that is not the case. The fact that Orange, CA still was lagging way behind other cities in the same market with HD channel availability, and continued pixellation problems with certain channels made me want to look at something else.
I moved my existing TV to my new house, about a mile from where I rented. Had DirecTV for 3 days now, and I am stunned by the quality of the channels. HD quality is much better then TWC - on the same TV. My wife was actually asking me why we didn't get DirecTV before!
Anyways, what is the reason for the quality differences between the different providers? Obviously with u-Verse, they are just trying to push as much through the copper line as possible, and thus bandwidth suffers.... but I was under the impression tv-cable could actually deliver the best quality possible.
Also great: CBS is again on channel 2, and is in HD if you have an HD receiver, and in SD if you have an SD receiver.... not on 2 for SD, and then 402 for HD, which was driving me crazy
Oh, and I can schedule on the web now and do the whole home DVR thing.
I know TWC has that too (I think) but it was never available in Orange County.