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I had Dish TV and unloaded the entire package and went to Verizon FIOS. Here is the problem with DISH that they do not tell you about in their TV ads. First, if you live in an area that has frequent severe thunderstorms, forget watching TV while the storm is wreaking havoc in your town. You will lose the picture for as long as the severity lasts. Secondly,
if you live in an area that has frequent severe snowstorms, you can forget watching TV at those times also.

You must have gotten hold of an OLD receiver. Mine (just checked it) goes a little over two weeks ahead and offers the option of jumping 12 hours at a shot in either direction.

The latest email from DirecTv tells what kind of hard drives are compatible and how to attach a big hard drive for saving a lot of shows.

I just successfully hooked up a fairly inexpensive 640 gig drive to it. The only bad part is that the attached external drive takes over from the internal one, but I can move the external 640g. drive and hook it up to my computer (USB) where I can burn the ones I want onto DVD discs.

Well, I’ve had DirecTV for several years now, and true, I’ve experienced ‘Rain Fade’ on occasion, but it hasn’t happened so often or slast very long, that i wasn’t so disturbed at dealing with only local broadcast or watching.surfing on the Internet. With Weatherbug, I can allways check to see the size, speed and direction the storm is moving, and can approximate how long before I get satellite feed back/ We do get some serious winter storms that rooll though my area, and haven’t had it affect the DirecTV service very much either. I have had cable TV before in my lifr, and when *that* goes down, it goes down for hours, if not days. DirecTV I don’t think has ever gone out for me, for over a half hour...and usually for only a 5-10-15 minute period, during the densest part of the storms.

Agh well, who knows? A whle back I used to complain about several issues I had with DirecTV, and surpisingly, most of the issues I had with them havd been addressed...Perhaps they cough up with at least increadioing the guide to 6 days, so that I can check out a programs *next* show, without needing new hardware. I mean it’s not like the guide isn’t there...it’s just not coming over for the basic receivers. Perhaps they went cheap on the RAM in the boxes, and that’s why it only dislays two crummy day...