Anyone have a Dish?

Thinking about going with the dish instead of cable, I like the fact I can get 4 rooms w/dvr, and one of them with HD for 50 bucks.  But I\'ve heard some horror stories, anyone have recent experience (I don\'t want to hear about problems from 5 years ago)

how the hell u get that price!?

anyways my friend had DirecTV but the picture went out in bad storms.  People say it can happen but not more than a couple of minutes.  Personally I think his dish needed to be realigned.

I was looking into Voom too which has an incredible HD lineup but each dish service it seems makes you use your own outdoor antenna for local channels.  Cable is the only one that streams them to your house without any extra hardware.  Vid or anyone else please correct me if I\'m wrong.

I have dish and cable at both homes.
Dish works fine. I hate when it goes out and has to load like a psx to get back on-line.

Comcast cable has went out many times as well.

I can\'t tell the difference

I have DirecTV.  It has gone down approximately twice in 3 years.  Each time was for about 30 seconds.  Our previous cable service went down for about 2-3 days at least once a year, and for shorter periods of time about every 4 months.  Reliability with DirecTV has been much better than cable.

DirecTV is also cheaper than cable in my neighborhood.  That\'s all I need to know.

[videoholic]

Dish is probably aimed poorly.  I lose signal very rarely while my neighbor loses all the time.  Turns out he\'s pointing right at the top of a tree.  Nothing like a free install.

Love my Dish Network, and for that price how could you even think twice about it?

I have Dish Network now changed from Comcast a while ago. Had Comcast since it was Cablevision and never had a problem. My Dish has only had problems in really bad storms. Other than that it has been pretty good. The DVR is great and has only had a problem once(I was doing a lot of recording and watching/erasing recorded programs). All I had to do after that was "reboot" the system. Not much hassle at all. Also we\'re paying a little bit more for dish(with all the channels in 4 rooms) than we were paying for comcast(with HBO/Cinemax variants in one room).

Love the DirecTV cable I payed 120 dollars a month for the same channels with Time Warner, but with Direct I pay 50 and some change for the same thing and rarely do I get bad reception unless heavy cloud coverage or rain due south or above.

[Titan]

I have cable. It does suck and when it breaks, you have to wait for hours for them to come and fix it. Cheap bastards.

so when it rains, do you have no picture?

In all the time that I have had dish we have had plenty of rain/storms/etc. and it only went out(for an extended period of time) during a really bad thunder storm. There have been storms where it was knocked out for a minute or two but nothing big. It really seems to only act up during bad thunderstorms.

Ive had both Digital Cable and a Dish. Im on the dish now and it will go out sometimes in some fairly bad storms but we\'ve had plenty were it hasnt gone out. The chanels have to reload just like Digital cable but so far i havent had many complaints about my dish.

We have DirecTV. It has gone out, but I can\'t remember the last time. As mentioned, it\'s only during wicked heavy, cloudy storms. Cable goes out more often and for longer.

I find I\'m more likely to lose power before I lose tv.

I just wish we didn\'t trade Playboy for Starz. ;]

-Dan

[videoholic]

Originally posted by theomen
so when it rains, do you have no picture?

I never lost satelite when 2 different hurricanes came through.

^Hah I think that\'s our answer.