Direct TV vs Digital Cable

[J.Clints]

<p>I have Digital Cable and am thinking of going to Direct TV. I was wondering if I should. There is a big price Differance.</p><p>What do you think.</p><p>Are there advantages or dissadvantages</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by jclintsma on 4-25-06 @ 3:42 PM</span>

[newport king]

<p>advantages for direct tv- every football game.</p><p>the end.</p>

[SinA]

<p>There might be an indirect price Differance if you switch.&nbsp; Such as, if you have your cable internet bundled with the tv, it might cost more to pay for Direct tv and cable internet seperatley.&nbsp; </p><p>I'm sure price varies, but just as important is getting what you want.&nbsp; I like having OnDemand.&nbsp; That football&nbsp;shiz would be&nbsp;nice though.&nbsp; </p>

[Plethora]

<p>I found that DirecTV was a LOT cheaper than cable.&nbsp; One sticking point for me is that I get local channels from a city that, while it is closer as the crow flies, is actually further away by road &amp; consequently is less useful for me (as I tend to go to the other city)... You can check what local channels are available for you on the directv site.</p><p>DirecTV will occassionally go wacky during really heavy rain, but not nearly as often or as bad as the &quot;ditch the dish&quot; adverts the cable industry runs.</p><p>The football and other sports packages are really cool but quite spendy.&nbsp;</p>

[newport king]

and honestly, my cable gets choppy at times, and pixilated as if it were a dish anyway. (im unable to have a dish cause of the condo assoc.)

[spoon]

<p>That's not legal NK, we fought it here and won easily.&nbsp; You just can't attach the dish to shared property and some other bullshit.&nbsp; Yet, I found a way around it and love DTV and all the packages.&nbsp; </p><p>Dcable does have one major advantage though.&nbsp; The on-demand feature is f-in awesome and I'd love to have it.&nbsp; Another smaller advantage, or perhaps it's wiped out bc of other higher prices, the high def programming costs on DTV.&nbsp; Still, DTV is cheaper.&nbsp; </p>

[PapaBear]

I have Cable. Therefore, Cable is better.

[LordJezo]

<p>What about all the costs of Direct TV like needing to rent a box for every TV and paying other equipment rental charges?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am asking because I dont know.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also, I can't get Direct TV where I live, I am in a condo with no south facing windows.&nbsp; It stinks.&nbsp;</p>

[WhistlePig]

DirectTV is great. We had both cable and satellite for a while--cable because of our
cable modem plus we were trying out their high def channels--and finally got rid of
the cable. It was really expensive compared to satellite, and the channel menu etc
was a lot harder to use. Plus DirectTV has the Center Ice package!

[spoon]

LJ, I have the same issue and bipassed it by constructing a pole for the dish on the back of my bedroom patio which allows it to overlook the top of my building.&nbsp; Seriously, it works great and was worth it.&nbsp;

[spoon]

Another factor is the responsiveness of DTV to it's actual customers and or fans of shows/channels.&nbsp; This we should all hold important as WNEW fucked us, while DTV stepped up and made the right move.&nbsp; Just another factor you peeps should add into your overall choice.&nbsp;