 jay_rm
join:2002-04-12
Netville
 ·Fox Valley Internet
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| Not Again ! I just got rid of ATT as my cell provider and was once again happily ATT-Free. Now I'll need to start considering dumping DirecTV again.
ATT has no place in my life - they suck, bigtime !
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: Not Again ! said by jay_rm  :I just got rid of ATT as my cell provider and was once again happily ATT-Free. Now I'll need to start considering dumping DirecTV again. ATT has no place in my life - they suck, bigtime ! You realize that even if a deal what reached total at&t wouldn't take over for at least a year. So were probably taking at least 18 months to 2 years before DirecTv is taken over by anyone. | |
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join:2002-04-12
Netville | Re: Not Again ! hence the key word "consider"... | |
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Van
Premium
join:2009-07-08
Washington, DC | Not a huge fan of DirecTV but their Sunday Ticket saves me every Sunday
Love it even with the absurd high price | |
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Reno
Premium
join:2008-10-26
Keller, TX
| It's about Football What everyone always misses is it's not about DirecTV as a company, it's about their exclusive NFL rights.
Imagine how badly Verizon (FIOS) and ATT (Uverse) want to take over DirectTV to get access to that? I'm sure another part of it would be to herd existing DirectTV customers into FIOS or ATT as well.
I really like Uverse (better than FIOS actually) as a service except for the limit of 1 to 2 (depending) HD channels on in a house at the same time. Imagine I want to watch an HD show in one room while recording another. Anyone else in the house is stuck with SD programming. That is the real flaw of Uverse that needs to be addressed. Otherwise, Uverse is a lot better than FIOS from what I've seen. | |
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| jjeffeory
join:2002-12-04
USA
| Re: It's about Football Unless you mind the picture quality. They're both expensive. I've had both. I currently have Uverse ( for 10 more days), and it's a pain when I want to *record* two programs and watch a third all in HD. Fios didn't have that problem. ...and did I mention the picture quality Fios has over Uverse? | |
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Ioweyou
@comcast.net
| DirecTV and NFL I installed DTV for four years and I can tell you without a doubt most of new installs tend be basd on their sports packages. While DISH had it sewed up with foreign language programing, DTV was all about football, baseball, cricket, hockey and a lot of other things.
As far as I am concerned DTV could buy ATT and become a phone company. ATT already has TV so what do they need more TV for?
Besides ATT is toxic. Anything they touch usually dies a slow and agonizing death. Remember the big fat failures they had with DISH partnerships?
I think it's time for ATT to have a disaster. Maybe scorpions or snakes. Sandstorms....? I haven't decided yet. | |
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castsucks
@sbcglobal.net
| Direct tv is better then cable where I am at Direct tv is better then cable where I am at
in price, better hardware, and more hd then I can get where I'm at.
comcast Chicago land sucks real bad $15-$20/m for a HD DVR Wtf?
and sci-if in comcast digital classic? speed and fox moive channel in the sports pack?
nice ripoff I can get direct tv HD dvr for the same price as comcast digital classic and not need to pay $15/m more to get the HD dvr with comcast. also I can add any box on direct tv for $5/m | |
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bac522
join:2003-08-04
Manchester, NH | AT&T could turn the tide on Verizon If AT&T bought DirecTV, they could then show maps of their video coverage verses Verizon's video coverage. Then Verizon could sue AT&T for advertising the truthful coverage maps! | |
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Broken Back
Premium
join:2002-05-19
Dallas, TX | Re: AT&T could turn the tide on Verizon AS a customer of Directv I hate any idea of ATT getting DTV
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ross
join:2000-08-16
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| AT&T SUCKS! AT&T should eat shit, and die! No good can come from throwing DTv under the AT&T bus, period. Want your personal viewing habits sold to the highest bidder? Want your cost of access to sports programming and HD content to skyrocket? Want all programming CENSORED? Want quality of production and delivery of product to degrade despite ever-rising cost to end user? Then, choose AT&T! The great AT&T behemoth sucketh the life out of all things, living or dead. A pox upon the succubus AT&T! | |
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| rob316
join:2005-10-17
Carteret, NJ | Re: AT&T SUCKS! If the Death Star buys DTV, I will go back to cable. If Verizon buys them I will stay put. The Death Star destroys everything it touches. | |
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@direcpc.com
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DSLTech
join:2000-12-30
San Jose, CA | no! pretty please no. we do not need VZ and ATT to add any more fat to their waists than they already have. | |
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penberth
join:2009-07-09
North Tonawanda, NY | I really hope this doesn't happen...... I don't really like either......although I have AT&T for cell phone.....
They are both evil.....
DTV should stand alone as they have done for years......PLEASE....... | |
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kmj2800
join:2005-06-15
Hartland, MI | Everything Old Is New Again I remember about 5 years ago they were going to buy Dish, with whom they had a reseller agreement at the time. | |
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