I've not seen that. They have recently added some HD channels though. With all the stuff there is to watch in my free time, my only choices are HD. Aside from the news, 99% of what we watch is pre-recorded so we can skip the commercials.
Aside from the news, 99% of what we watch is pre-recorded so
I HEAR YOU!
We too rarely watch live TV....
even the national news is recorded so I dont miss it...
I will start watching about 10 minutes late, and skip thru commercials till the end. doing this gets tons of tme back for my life.
My first DVR was the original dishplayer, I upgraded to TIVO and am very happy with it. ROCK SOLID BUG FREE OPERATION:)
Something dish was never able to provide:(
I get about 20 channels via my antenna. Of those 20, I watch 2 of them regularly, and may go to another one or two for the local news. Most of what I see on tv is garbage programming anyhow, with far too many commercials. Even if there is a decent program on, having to sit thru
15 minutes of insulting commercials, particularly insulting to the elderly (which I am), I really lose interest in the program and often just shut off the tv. I have no interest in cable or satellite tv whatsoever. I have seen it other places and it's just more of the same junk and a lot more commercials.I have to be really bored to spend much time in front of the tv, which is normally in the cold months. But even then, I'm not addicted to tv enough to spend money for it. While a lot of people are spending close to $100 a month for their cable/sat tv, I probably avarage $10 a month to buy DVD movies, which are usually those on closeout at Walmart for $5, or the really cheap VCR tapes at second hand stores, where I can get a whole movie for a buck or less. At least with them, I can watch them without being interrupted every few minutes with commercials, and can pause them when I have to make dinner or need to do other stuff. Life is too short to waste 25% of each hour watching idiot commercials trying to sell me some rip-off life insurance or get me to take viagra or promote drugs that have so many serious side effects I would not give them to anything except a rat that I want to poison.
Commercials are what the DVR is all about. You record the stuff you want to watch, watch it when you want and skip the commercials
not around here, my triple play phone, internet and tv is about what i paid in the past for dish only
In my area (San Francisco Bay Area) is $130/month (minus about $12.50/month in rebates) for a one year contract once you add the extras (DVR, second cable box, HD) so it works out to about $117.50. Dish works out to about $45/month over a two year contract after all the introductory offers are factored in, while DirecTV is a few dollars higher at about $48/month.
You have to switch every two years between Dish and DirecTV to get the introductory offers again otherwise the cost of satellite TV goes way up.
I wouldn't mind a "double play" for $80 per month. Who needs the landline from Comcast when you can buy an Ooma box or some other VOIP solution?
I pay a tad over $235 for Dish, POTS phone with all the features and
10MB DSL internet but I have the full boat channel package
My comcast bill is over $200 month. I like the specialty channels. Only way to get Pittsburgh hockey, cable.
Greg
Found a long time ago, the only way to watch tv is to be able to view two or three channels at the same time, especially with sports.
Greg
Up here in Canada, where everything costs more, I have cable TV - digital VIP - with digital hi-def box and 2 digital adapter boxes, plus 20 mb down and 2 up Internet, 2 cell phones with 100 minutes shared daytime plus unlimited evenings and weekends - for $200 including tax.
The Hopper is a Dish DVR, not a DirecTV DVR.
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