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Originally Posted by Jonesey

What is everyone's opinion of Direct TV? Is it worth switching from Comcast? I like Comcast, but the channel selection is starting to bug me...i.e. HDNet.

I switched to DirecTV and I am glad I did. Comcast cable sucks compared to DirecTV. DirecTV has 85 HD channels compared to like 20 or so on Comcast. Plus, the picture quality is better because cable companies use coaxial cable. If they used fiber optic cables like AT&T plans to do with their new cable company the picture would be just as good. As long as you get a good installation there are hardly ever any outages. I had one outage for 5 minutes in 7 months because snow covered my dish. If you ever do get satellite make sure they mount the dish in a pole in the ground rather than onto the roof. Never put holes in your roof if you do not have to. DirecTV also gives you a ton of other stations that you have to pay extra for if you have Comcast. On top of all that the price is better.

Dish Network will give you a free HD DVR receiver where DirecTV will only give you a free HD or DVR receiver (I had to pay $200 for my HD DVR receiver which pissed me off). Another disadvantage is you can only mirror images into other rooms if you do not want to pay extra per receiver.