Posted on 12/05/2010 2:47:53 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave
That is just what I need.....Dallas wins !
We have had DirecTV since 1998. Never had a problem they did not solve right away. I think their customer service is great.
Damn close though!
Squeeker indeed ......
Try to get their free HD!!!!
Dropped dish in 2003 when we got the high speed internet up and running on our country property. Sold the house in town, put up an antenna for local news and weather and life is good.
Dish got the boot mostly because they liked to surprise us with activated premium channels frequently popping up things that we really don’t want the kids to see. My wife called and told them to knock it off, they told her that they would give us free movie channels from time to time and there was nothing she could do to stop it. They were wrong.
I don’t feel righteous, I just try to feel good...in spite of it all.
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Congratulations for posting to a thread that does not concern you.
I've had it about that long as well. But, I miss the VOOM channels; and it does look like DISH screwed then over.
As a former employee of Dish, I can say that I have never seen a company that treats it customers, and employees worse. I would go without TV before I would be a customer of theirs ever. Not a single promise, even those in writing, was honored by the compnay to any employee to my knowledge. I also know of two employees who were honored by the regional VP for creating a way to increase customers bills for things DirectTV does for free.
My advice, spend your hard earned money elsewhere.
I liked VOOM (our first HDTV sat service) also, had it for approximately one month and they went out of business...!
(We have two working VOOM boxes in the basement if anyone is interested...)
The whole VOOM thing is interesting. VOOM (HAD) an uplink facility in Piedmont, SD right off I-90 interstate. Dish kicks them off their programming, shortly thereafter, DISH owns their uplink facility and I would bet at considerably less than it cost to build it. Since that time, two more large antennas have gone up at the site. Don’t know the whole story but wish I did. The site is unmanned, meaning control is from one of their other uplink sites. Cheyenne, WY or Gilbert, AZ or both.
PS: If I am not on the HDTV ping list already, you may add me please.
I've never had Dish but I applaud their stance of fighting back against the PP's blackmail tricks to get subscribers paying ever higher prices for programming.
Currently we have Time Warner and they are in a battle with 2 networks over pricing. Every prime time show I watch in HD on either of those channels has to run a stream of text at the top of the screen explaining how we need to contact Time Warner to keep these channels. What is annoying is that to do so they must reduce the picture size from full HD screen to a cropped boxed screen.
Very annoying!
You stopped watching Dish Network when you could no longer steal it? Is that what you said?
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No I didn’t say that ,, your assumption is wrong, you see DN can still be “stolen” , it merely became a bit much of a hassle. When DTV gives you the keys to the DN kingdom , or when DN gives you the keys to the DTV kingdom it is rude to refuse the gift.
The self-righteous comments by the “I don’t own a TV” collective on an HDTV thread are curious.
How different is this from declaring that “I don’t vote!” on an election-based thread, or stating that you don’t eat meat on a thread about BBQ?
As for Dish, I loved their DVR box, and had been told by people who had TIVO that it sounded a lot like their interfaces when I described what it would do. They’d be out of business if they lost their DVR because the signal outages were enough to chase me away a few months ago after 4 years with them. I despise my Scientific Atlanta cable box (it’s hard drive is 20% the size it should be) but at least I always have a signal now.
Are you in Central Ohio or is that happening in other parts of the country too?
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