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Directv sucks too, but Dish is megasuck. TV in general is a bunch of unwatachable PC drivel. People are opting out of paying for it.
Government wouldn’t let them merge with Direct tv. What’s next?
A lot of us got tired of Dish blocking main channels, adding dozens of non English channels and upping the price with less viewing for us.
We bailed about 5 years ago. Suddenly, we heard from Dish trying to shame us by phone and email to reup several times a day.
If you are a night owl (or insomniac) and you have Dish, you get to watch...infomercials late at night. Your favorite channels are not available.
I can’t remember the last time we turned on the TV. YouTube has become the family’s favorite channel.
The tv delivery providers have milked the cow as much as they could. It’s difficult to justify paying 160 a month or more for 500 when most people only regularly watch 12 or so channels.
People are cutting the cord and just going with online alternatives. I think it’s heading to the point where we will primarily get tv from Internet, and people just get the apps for the stations they want and pay a small monthly fee for the apps they want
That’s a good thing, though probably 400+ cable networks won’t survive in their current form.
i would cut the cord, except for football.
i can get all i need from apple tv, except the NFL. if that changes i am gone
Dish - founder of the “don’t get stuck with an ugly bill” commercials.
When I signed on a year ago, my bill was about $60 a month. It jumped to $161 before I could blink.
I called and cut my package back and now it’s still $85 a month.
Cable should go to a per channel subscription basis. I don’t need 600 channels of nothing. I tend to watch only about 4 or 5 channels regularly.
But the picture quality is good.
Our house was one of those 281,000. We hardly watch TV anymore, and we realized it was just money down the drain. We haven’t missed it.
We had been considering cutting the cord for a year. What pushed me to make the call was a promo on TLC about a transgender show. I realized I was just sick of paying to support channels and programs like this.
Its not so much the price as how pissed off I get when I see all the additional taxes and fees.
Government is the expert of getting a slice of every businesses hard work with no risk to themselves.
Dish is WONDERFUL. Never lost service in over 10 years, at 5 different locations. Their hoppers and joeys are fabulous, you can access everything from any tv in the house, and all network shows are automatically taped and left up for a week or two. It’s easy to use and we have never had any problems. I wish we could pay less but it is effortless great TV. Customer service always works with us, they will always find a way for you to see your teams you want in sports, without necessarily making you get the whole premium package. I love DISH.
AT&T has been deluging me with offers to get Direct TV both by email and snail mail. Some days I get multiple offers.
Maybe when I dump them for Cricket, it will stop.
The desperation would seem to suggest the revenues are not quite as rosy as it was forecast when they took over.
They'd eventually get the channels back after a week or two. DTV has a better picture IMO.
Yep. I had been considering dumping Dish with each price increase over the last year or two. Finally pulled the trigger a couple months back. Now its Netflix and Amazon Prime. Even with renting/buying some content on Amazon, we come out ahead.
The latest price hike and how little we were watching anymore tipped the balance.
I cut the cord one month ago. I used to have ATT Uverse. I am saving some money to pay down debt. I would have done it sooner, but I was locked in a contract.
It is okay so far. Still adjusting.
Cut the cord. Don’t play their game. There is plenty to watch for free on the internet.