Yep. Tis True. Moved over to comcast cable. Sure, no Sunday Ticket..as painful as it may be. But the increased subscription price for each of the last 4 years has been a strain.
In addition, to purchase a Directv High Def/DVR receiver is like taking a small personal loan out. Eight hundred dollars? Ridiculous. I'm tired of watching only OTA HD broadcasts.
So, we got Comcast delivered yesterday. 60 recording hours of normal television, 15 hours of HD content. Sure, no Sunday Ticket, but with all programming the same (not including the new additional HD content) we're making ten bucks back a month.
One thing I wanted to mention...If you threaten to cancel your Directv service, they throw everything but the kitchen sink at you to stay. Discount hardware, free Starz package, and a few other things.
Something to think about if you're a current subscriber.
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Only 3 leagues this year. No sense in rooting for everyone in the NFL.
Thanks for the headsup on that. I'm a current subscriber and want to bump up to the world of HD tv, My only problem with changing to cable is I'd have to have Adelphia, which I think is much slimmer content wise than comcast. (gotta love the on demand)
awwchrist wrote:Yep. Tis True. Moved over to comcast cable. Sure, no Sunday Ticket..as painful as it may be. But the increased subscription price for each of the last 4 years has been a strain.
In addition, to purchase a Directv High Def/DVR receiver is like taking a small personal loan out. Eight hundred dollars? Ridiculous. I'm tired of watching only OTA HD broadcasts.
So, we got Comcast delivered yesterday. 60 recording hours of normal television, 15 hours of HD content. Sure, no Sunday Ticket, but with all programming the same (not including the new additional HD content) we're making ten bucks back a month.
One thing I wanted to mention...If you threaten to cancel your Directv service, they throw everything but the kitchen sink at you to stay. Discount hardware, free Starz package, and a few other things.
Something to think about if you're a current subscriber.
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wow i was actually planning on dropping my current carrier, comcast, and subscribe to directv just for the ticket. looks like i dont have to worry about that now. just curious how much you are paying including the recorder per month? i just have basic cable (non-digital) and im still paying upper 40's per month. i also dont get the showtime-hbo type channels. im hoping to keep it under 100 bones a month
Well, the comcast CSR asked me what programming service we were getting and how much we were paying.
I told her our programming package (total choice plus, hbo) and that we were paying $65/month. She retorted with the equal comcast cable package, plus hbo, for ten bucks less.
They call it their "Satellite buyback program". sounds like they give you the same service, but for ten bucks cheaper. The monthly fee is over a 16 month non-obligated contact. There is no mandatory commitment. I can cancel at anytime.
In return, the Install tech gets to take one of your satellite receivers. We gave him our no-frills spare bedroom receiver. We still kept our 40-Gig Tivo/Directv Unit.
One thing I forgot to mention, as I was "negotiating" my cancellation with Directv...
We were talking about The Sunday Ticket and the Directv CSR says with a glint of cheer in her voice "You know Directv has exclusive rights on out of market subscription games through 2010?"
I replied "And you think that's a good thing?"
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Only 3 leagues this year. No sense in rooting for everyone in the NFL.
We just got our DVR for Comcast last week. Gotta say it's nice not to have to rush home from a little league game so you don't miss the first ten minutes of a show.
Sporting events are family events. If you can't watch your language for 3 hours then stay home.
Bah, if only I didn't live in Hickville where the only service available is Time Warner...we've had a DirecTV for a long time now, and I have to pay 73 bucks a month for it.
That includes Showtime that my sister wanted (and she's paying for it), an extra receiver for her room (which she's NOT paying for), and the four network stations (NY and LA) that we have to get because we can barely get the local networks on our antenna. The only nice thing is that I get to watch over half the NFL games during the season because of all the network coverage...so it's sort of like having the Ticket on that account.
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Mercer Boy wrote:Bah, if only I didn't live in Hickville where the only service available is Time Warner...we've had a DirecTV for a long time now, and I have to pay 73 bucks a month for it.
That includes Showtime that my sister wanted (and she's paying for it), an extra receiver for her room (which she's NOT paying for), and the four network stations (NY and LA) that we have to get because we can barely get the local networks on our antenna. The only nice thing is that I get to watch over half the NFL games during the season because of all the network coverage...so it's sort of like having the Ticket on that account.
I was under the impression that extra receivers didn't cost extra. Could be mistaken, and getting ripped off by my roommate who told me it didn't (he signed up for the service, I never see the bill). In the eternal words off Droopy...."That makes me mad".
It was worse before, though...since our original plan called for us "renting" the boxes, they were soaking us $18 a month for "rental fees." Once I started paying for it about 2 years ago, I called them up and said that was ridiculous. I just bought the receivers outright in order to save money in the long run.
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