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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 4:18 PM I have Digital Cable and I love it. I have like 600 channels or something, and also the On Demand thing is tight, it has tons of new movies and music videos ready to watch whenever you want for free. I just watched The Hills Have Eyes on it, that was a creepy movie, I think Laith would like it. And the N channel is awesome, I always watch old Nickelodeon shows that went out of syndication. Like Ren and Stimpy and Doug and all the good ones. Fuse is tight too, and G4 if you like video games. I like it a lot. Of course, I also don't pay the bill each month.... —Stryker311 |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 4:53 PM I have Digital HD and it's fine. The only thing I'd like to see added is the NFL Network. And it would be nice if someday they had Sunday Ticket available. —Beat It! |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 4:55 PM I concur with Stryker and Beat It!. (I want my Rich Eisen, damnit!) —ItHadToBeJew |
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chix0r |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 5:15 PM My dream is to have "cable" when I grow up; I don't care what it actually is. —chix0r |
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anobody |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 5:22 PM I've had both. As long as you have line-of-sight to the South and you don't have a ton of storms, they're about neck-in-neck. It does depend a lot on your cable company. If they have decent video on demand, you might want to lean that way - it's kinda cool to be able to watch a season of Curb Your Enthusiasm whenever you feel like it without the DVDs or having TIVOed it. If you're going for high speed internet with the same provider, then I'd definitely go with cable (or fiber optic) if it's available in your area (light travels pretty fast but the time it takes to bounce up to geosynchronous and back down can get on your nerves). Otherwise, it's a toss-up and I'd just go with whichever gives you the better deal (though, I must say, I wouldn't complain if you went DirectTV just to stick it to COX). —anobody |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 5:23 PM Way back 3 weeks ago when I was a home owner I had Dish. I have digital cable now. I like Dish better--more pacakge options and if you're West-coast based you get all of the east coast network feeds (meaning you can watch the Daily show at 8 PM). It's also far cheaper and the DVR they give you is better too. I also paid for the New York feed of a couple of the networks (NBC mainly) so I could watch Conan at 9:30 PM. If you're in any of the other time zones it doesn't matter as much other than price. DirecTV is similar in price to Dish-you'll save approximately 20 bucks a month on the higher end packages. I've had On Demand for all of two weeks now and my one comment is that the content doesn't refresh fast enough. —bguirk |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 5:30 PM We have dish and we pay for approximately 6 channels. tnt, usa, scifi, bbcamerica, sundance, and tbs which we get a better picture of by just using the antennae. It costs about six dollars a month. It's pretty weak. I recommend you just get Netflix. —smaller hands |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 6:30 PM fuck comcast, the high speed internet went out again for 4 hours. The cable tv. is fine though. —adams_babymomma |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 7:24 PM Right now, digital cable is probably better than satellite, except that digital cable is generally a little more costly (I live on Long Island and pay $42.99 for DirecTV, while the local comparable cable plan is around $65, which is pretty significant). I'm sure the prices vary from cable company to cable company though, and the main reason I'd recommend DirecTV over cable is the NFL Sunday Ticket. —damageisle |
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anobody |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 7:24 PM After reading bg's post, sounds like Dish is worth considering. Is there anyone who has had recent experience with both Dish and DirectTV? I'm curious to hear if you preferred one to the other. —anobody |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 9:16 PM Never had DirecTV, but I considered it. For awihle you could only get the NFL Sunday ticket on DirecTV (which I could give a shit about) but I think you can get it on both now. Dish is slightly cheaper (by about $4 a month). One of the cooler advantages of DirecTV is that they support Tivo, although you have to go out and find the receivers on ebay. Tivo definitely has the best DVR interface, although Dish's is fine. Comcast comes in dead last for their DVR. I hate it. —bguirk |
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anobody |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 9:35 PM It's amazing how good TiVo is. I see all of these idiots on slashdot talking about how great their homebrew MythTV 'solution' is and how they're winning by not paying for TiVo's hardware and service but it really seems that the joke's on them. These are the same people who brag about how they were able to cobble together a PC for so little money (who'd a thunk it, that brings me to my standard Mac vs PC holy war). Oh well, guess some people just have different priorities. —anobody |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 9:43 PM If you can cobble pc's together you should be able to go out into the world and make around $18 an hour if you shower and drop the attitude that most slashdotters have. If you're making $18 an hour the time you're wasting to save $100 on your PC (which could not be any cheaper these days) is so not worth it. That said, I'm sure MythTV will catch up eventually. Tivo is going down the tubes any day now and I'm sure someone will keep a free version of it going out their in the community. —bguirk |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 9:53 PM by not paying for TiVo's hardware and service It's not even that much! It's only like 10 bucks a month! I hate it when people who have money are hella stingy. —Stryker311 |
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Full Meat |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 10:41 PM With DirecTV, if you get the DVR option, it's an extra $6 a month, and the DVR unit (Tivo) costs $100. At that price, you can get a Tivo for every TV you've got (I have three) and the $6/month is a flat rate, no matter how many Tivos you have. It just shows up as a line item on your DirecTV bill (no separate bill from Tivo). I found that as soon as I got one Tivo, I suddenly became unable to tolerate commercial interruptions on my non-Tivo TVs, so I had to buy more Tivos. So the DirecTV pricing scheme is a good deal for me. The Tivo is a "DirecTivo", a dual-tuner 120GB (100 hr) unit, which is superior to your typical single-tuner standalone Series2 Tivo. One word of advice: The dual tuner feature is key, it allows you to record one channel while watching another, and you will definitely want it to maximize your Tivo. But each tuner feed requires its own feed from the dish, and most homes aren't wired for that. You can't simply "split" the signal as you could with old-school cable. Adding a second cable jack in an above-ground room relatively close to the dish is something that the DirecTV tech can do, but they won't really go out of their way if you have to fish it through a wall to another floor. That said, my friends who have gone from DirecTV to Comcast Digital Cable haven't looked back. While they prefer the Tivo software to the Microsoft DVR software, it's a minor point, since they're paying about the same money as I am, but additionally receiving HD and On Demand. Also, Comcast offers some sort of discount if you get both TV and Internet through them. —Full Meat |
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 11:46 PM I would have a Tivo or two, but our local channels have serious ghosting or just weak ass picture quality. I download my tv from the internet. —Colin |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 1:18 AM With DirecTV, if you get the DVR option, it's an extra $6 a month, and the DVR unit (Tivo) costs $100. I just sold an 80GB DirecTivo on ebay for $19, lol. I thought I'd get at least $40-50. I found that as soon as I got one Tivo, I suddenly became unable to tolerate commercial interruptions on my non-Tivo TVs, so I had to buy more Tivos. Yeah, thank God for the 30-second commercial-skip code! The clock display/time remaining code (S-P-S-9-S) is also nice. Just don't use it on a plasma or you risk having it burned into the screen.
The Tivo is a "DirecTivo", a dual-tuner 120GB (100 hr) unit, which is superior to your typical single-tuner standalone Series2 Tivo. One word of advice: The dual tuner feature is key, it allows you to record one channel while watching another, and you will definitely want it to maximize your Tivo.
Actually, you can record off of both live channels and watch a recording, simultaneously. The new R15 non-TiVo dvr that DirecTV pushes on new users sucks according to the reviews. No more dual 30-minute channel buffers, no more 30-sec skip, crappier interface, etc, etc.
That said, my friends who have gone from DirecTV to Comcast Digital Cable haven't looked back. While they prefer the Tivo software to the Microsoft DVR software, it's a minor point, since they're paying about the same money as I am, but additionally receiving HD and On Demand. Also, Comcast offers some sort of discount if you get both TV and Internet through them.
Comcast Digital Cable vs DirecTV:
Comcast - top-notch HD signal
Comcast - crappier SD signal
Comcast - crappier dvr recorder (from what I've heard)
Comcast - No HD.Net channels DirecTV - Compressed HD signal coined as HD Lite
DirecTV - better SD signal
DirecTV - better dvr available (H10-250 DirecTiVo)
DirecTV - cheaper TiVo service ($6/mo)
DirecTV - HD.Net channels, yeah baby.
DirecTV - NFL Sunday Ticket
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 1:29 AM I ADORE my Directv,
had it for almost ten tears.
Sound quality pristine, 40 bucks per month, with local and XM radio.
And the guide is the best, you can see what's on and what it's about without leaving your channel. Plus you get so many channels, it's the bill I pay way in advance, and if you forget, it's a five minute deal to get it back on.You get premium freeviews, and yes, pornography, if you are so inclined.
I'm just sayin'
I love my Directv :) —Spanglemaker |
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rAnCIDsICk@!!! |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 1:31 AM I have cox digital cable and there's no problem to it except for the shitty service cox provides, oh and not to mention they try to rip you off.
Other than that it's great, I get my phone and cable all on one bill.
I would have internet too if it wasn't for my apartment having some sort of contract with Cox the prevents me from having complete access to all the package deals. —rAnCIDsICk@!!! |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 1:52 AM I've got the package digital cable/internet/phone deal with Insight. I suppose it's ok, I don't really have any basis for comparison. —catloaf |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 5:53 AM I would like time to watch more TV. My DVR is full and I have to delete stuff just to make room for new stuff I'm not going to watch. At least I can watch DVD's on my computer while I work. —Beat It! |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 8:37 PM hm, seems like Directv is better from what you guys say. Our bill is like 70 dollars a month I always thought that was a little steep. —Stryker311 |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 11:44 PM I have digital cable and I have the NFL Network, I don't know what any of you fools are talking about. —greymatters |
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 11:51 PM Yeah, thank God for the 30-second commercial-skip code! Words cannot express how much I miss this. Can you hear me Comcast? Fuck you! I have digital cable and I have the NFL Network, I don't know what any of you fools are talking about. It's everywhere now--they're no-longer exclusive to DirecTV. —bguirk |
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Friday, August 11, 2006 at 7:09 AM I don't think NFL Network was ever exclusive to DirecTV, just that not all cable systems have picked it up yet (like mine, godammit). NFL Sunday Ticket is the one that is exclusively for satellite. —Beat It! |
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Friday, July 18, 2008 at 8:50 AM Satellite rules! No "make sure you get a converter box or you won't be able to watch digital TV in February 2009" commercials, no $50 service call charges, no DVR boxes crapping out, more variety and cheaper than digital cable. —x |
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Friday, July 18, 2008 at 9:27 AM i'd pay for cable internet and run a splitter to my tv for free analog cable. free to air satellite is also worth looking into —000 |
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Friday, July 18, 2008 at 9:56 AM Neither. Intelligent people don't pay for T.V. I see the world with the interwebs, and all for 1/3 the cost that stupid people pay for 300 junk channels (which are mostly either spanish or female oriented). —striekar |
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Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 9:51 PM I have a butt. P.S: I've also finally caved, and made a facebook. You fuckers should totally add me...or email me your url or something. That'd be cool. huh-huh —Dusty TheHick |
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 12:32 AM i've accepted your request and that's fine and all, but don't write on my wall. if you have something to say, you can send me a message. —mandee |
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 11:53 AM Dusty doesn't care about boobs anymore, he's got himself a facebook... Either the doc has him on estrogen or... —striekar |
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Dusty TheHick |
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 9:30 PM ...or his sister's been nagging him for months to get a facebook, so he can see her pictures. *rolls eyes* —Dusty TheHick |
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 10:54 PM Dusty Why didn't she just email you her pictures as a zip file? —x |
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