Apart from ever-increasing prices I have no complaints about DirecTV. I have only ever had one receiver fail since 1996 and it was replaced promptly.
However, DirecTV are apparently currently in some kind of dispute with the Fox parent company. According to ‘screen crawlers’ which ran on some stations over this past weekend, on November 1, 2011, we may lose Fox, FoxNews, Fox Sports, other Fox affiliates, Speed and several other channels.
I have received no official notice from DirecTV about this apparent dispute, but if they permanently drop the Speed Channel then I will be switching to something else in fairly short order. Televised Formula 1 car racing is the MAIN reason I even own a TV.
Those ‘you may lose’ crawlers come up once a year or so when they are in contract renewals. I think they are to get customers to put pressure on Fox to help DirectTV’s negotiation position.