Directv vs. Dishnetwork

[rdln]

If anybody is considering these to satellite TV providers,
These two channels might make up your mind:

RFDTV - The only place you'll find shows about tractors, gardening,
rural America, farming shows, Etc.

The Outdoor Channel - the only channel with down to earth, good ol'boy
hunting shows. When was the last time you saw a hunting show host with
enough modesty and confidence with himself to shoot a doe deer and put it
on his show? Ted Nugent, Spirit of the Wild

These two channels are only available on The DishNetwork.

 

[MossRoad]

Dish Network and Dirctv are merging. I'll bet you will be able to get them on directv in the near future. And then you will be able to get the sports packages offered by Directv that are not offered on Dish Network. Sounds like a win-win for both sets of customers. We'll see, right?

<font color=green> MossRoad </font color=green>

 

[tpaulson]

You can't get NFL Sunday Ticket on Dishnetwork.

http://faq.dishnetwork.com/questions/83.asp?sc=/&cboSubCategory=0&cboCategory=0&txtSearch=nfl&pg=1

 

[gws]

If you like watching re-runs of Antique tractor shows, Horse's being parades around and polka music shows, RFDTV is for you.

outdoor channel is getting better but still a lot of re-runs of gold panning shows.

Gary.

 

[GlueGuy]

<font color=blue>Dish Network and Dirctv are merging</font color=blue>

So my read on that is that it's a non-issue. A more interesting question might be whether DishNetwork's $9.95/month will continue after the merge or perhaps whether the $9.95 will become available on DirecTV?

We are about to give PacBell (AKA SBC-lite) the boot for our data line. We've had hot & cold running technicians out to our place for about a month now. They ware playing musical chairs with all the neigbors' phone lines: We would call a problem with one of our phones, they would "fix" it by stealing a line from another neighbor. That neighbor would call in a new problem, they would repeat the process. We've been "swapping" phone lines with neighbors now for about a month. What a joke.

The GlueGuy

 

[MossRoad]

It'll be interesting to see what the pricing schemes do when they merge. I've been very happy with directv. I've had it for 4 years this month. My friend has dish network and has no complaints either. We have the common theme of anti cable.

<font color=green> MossRoad </font color=green>

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I doubt anything good will result from Dish Network and Directv merging. Lack of competition will allow them to increase all prices!

 

[TerryinMD]

I do not know if the Gubmint will allow a full merger. Antitrust garbage. If they allow it, Dish will be watched very carefully.

As far as pricing, I wouldn't expect much change. Keep in mind that they are after cable customers and there are a lot more cable customers than satellite customers. So, the price pressure will more than likely stay the same.

Another thing to consider is that you have the satellite radio kicking off now - XM and Sirius. That will place additional pressure on sat and cable TV.

Terry
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by TerryinMD on 11/27/01 07:38 AM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[Jeff396]

Anti cable theme....AMEN!!! My problem is that I just moved to a place where my dial up was going to be a toll call. Soooo, we decided to spend the buck and get a cable modem. Problem is that in order to get the cable modem from our provider we have to at least sign up for the basic cable tv and I couldn't justify carrying basic cable and not using it. Now I no longer have my direct TV and miss it./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Does anyone else have this problem? My cable provider is Comporium and I believe it's local. Roadrunner isn't available here.

Jeff

 

[MikePA]

Why not have basic cable and DirecTV? I have basic cable, which gets me the local channels, and DirecTV which gets me everything else. I use ReplayTV boxes (digital recorders) that combine the signals from the cable and the satellite for a single signal source.

My cable company does not offer cable modems and had no plans to. Even if they had offered it, I probably would not have signed up for a cable modem except as a last resort given the cable companies random outage policy. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Fortunately, the phone company began offering DSL a few months ago and I was probably one of the first ones to sign up in the area served by the local CO. I had been bugging them every 3 months for about 2 years since they offered it in other areas (where the potential customer base was larger).