Dumped direct TV

We got rid of Dish TV and got the Roku. I only wish we would have known about it sooner. It's sooo much cheaper over the long run. Paid for itself in 2 months.

I just call direct tv, tell them about the deal dish is offering.....
And they lower my bill amount.

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I didn't have any luck getting a much better deal than I had from Direct TV. Before I switched to the Dish Welcome Package for $14.99 I called Direct TV and told them I was about to drop them and asked if they had anything similar to the Dish offer. The guy offered me something with fewer channels than I had for an introductory price of $29, but the price would go up after a year. When I told him I could get all I needed for a regular price of $14.99 at Dish he didn't seem to care. When I finally called to cancel Direct TV the woman offered to give me something for $10 less than the $70 I was paying. The $14.99 Dish package and Netflix for $8.00 is as good as, if not better than the $70 package we had at Direct TV.

The offers that Direct has been putting out border on slime-ball. Just got one today wanting to pay up to $200 in cancellation fees to bring me back to a $29 package for one year. Way way into the fine print, normal price on that package is $55 with no guarantee that the price will remain valid. Dish - currently $25, will increase to $35. That price guaranteed.

Neither company seems to recognize that they are going the way of the hometown video store. If Hughesnet gets its G-4 to actually work, subscribers to Dish and Direct will be migrating like ducks in the fall.

I have had only "DirectTV" since 1991 when I moved back to my hometown and no apartments I looked at offered free basic cable with the rent package.

I enjoyed 6 free channels direct from the station transmitters to my antenna until the DTV transition a few years ago when I had to get a converter box at a cost of $30 one time and thanks to sub channels I now recieve 9 to 15 channels depending on the weather conditions.

I still have my converter box but it gets used a lot less as my newer tv sets recieve both digital and the one remaining nearby church sponsored low power analog channel that offers a lot of old black and white movies around their religious programming.

I have friends and relatives who spend well over $100 a month for teir TV, internet and such but I could never see spending that much ( I refuse to get off dial up because I can't justify spending more for internet than I do for my local only land line phone and 56k dial up at $13 a month fills my internet requirements just fine.)

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"I didn't have time to slay the dragon. It's on my To Do list!"

we're those people out there that have an old fashioned antenna (sp?). when we stop receiving, we'll stop watching tv. right now, tho, I get tons of channels. good enough for freebie viewing.

I know, right?! I was so in to watching Rawhide every day at 4, cause I was loving me some young Clint Eastwood. they changed programming, but Rifleman isn't too bad. LOL we adore Dragnet...not for a good reason..more for giggles on how bad it was!

A homesteader has enough time for tv to justify paying for a bunch of channels they could never watch if they had 3 tvs going 24 hours a day. Doesn't make sense to me.

According to my wife, my father in law didn't have a remote for the TV when she was younger (Though she's not that old ... She grew up thinking her name was ABC, and her brothers were named NBC and CBS. So her dad would say "ABC" and she'd have to get up to change the channel.

Think of how many kids you'd have to have today with satellite if you didn't have a remote!

The beauty part of dish is that when you call to cancel the offer you some really low rates not to drop them and they will usually negotiate about almost anything.