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Re: Satellite or cable service... Part 2

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I currently have Charter cable.  I miss a lot of shows because of a poor or
nonexistent signal.  They used to credit my account for the problems, but
not anymore.  I've had to go to a public high speed internet so I can watch
the misssed ones online.

So I'm looking into satellite.  I called DirecTV and they would not tell me
which channels they carry.  They would only telll me if I guessed each one.
They would not send a list.  So I hung up.

I talked to Dish and it was so much easier.  So last week I called Dish to
sign up and it turned out they lie in their ads:  The Hopper, their DVR, is
not free.  They try to double talk to make me think it is.  So I asked for
the supervisor who also confirmed their lie.  So I hung up.  (I went down to
a local telephone office which offers Dish, and they said, "yes, they lie.")

I found a web site that showed all channels for each tier for the 2
satellites.  I called back DirecTV to ask their prices and they refused to
tell me.  I had to give them my credit card number so they could do a credit
check first.  So I hung up.

Apparently their are no good options to do business with an honest and
professional company.

-- 
Alan Justice
http://home.earthlink.net/~wildlifepaparazzi/

"Ant" <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote in message
news:AqCdnU9HloT6K6PSnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d@earthlink.com...
> Hello.
>
> I don't know if this is the proper newsgroups to ask this. In a few
> months, my family and I (three people) will be relocating/moving to
> another house. We won't be able to get free over the air (OTA) due to a
> small mountain/giant hill blocking transmitters for Los Angeles/L.A.
> broadcasts. It is impossible to get a very high antenna (would require a
> high rise building height with twenty floors -- 193 or more feet for the
> local English stations in green color according to TVFool.com!). So that
> means we will have to order cable or satellite TV for TV feeds. Since we
> don't watch many movies and stuff (we just rent or stream), we will
> still keep it simple and basic. Hopefully, cheap/low cost. Basically, we
> want all local broadcast channels including foreign ones (asian like
> Chinese).
>
> We are definitely ordering Time Warner Cable (TWC)'s Road Runner
> Internet service since that is the only fastest and cheapest ($52.99 per
> month for standard package) since nothing else and/or good is available
> (no DSL, no FIOS, satellite and dial-up sucks and are too slow).
>
> TWC sales said for monthly payments as of Christmas break of 2011:
> $24.50 (basic/local broadcast TV)
> $52.99 (regular Internet package)
> $10 DVR rental (heard cable DVRs suck? Or should we get our own
> [however, I can't find one that doesn't require subscriptions like
> DTVPal and ChannelMaster DVRs]
> $49.99 for installation charge
>
> Total = $84.79 per month for service (without $49.99 for installation
> charge).
>
> Bundled packages and a single bill would be nice too if it is cheap/not
> much different, but if satellite TV service is a lot cheaper than we
> will get it. However, it will suck if the whole cable goes out/down,
> then no Internet and TV. :(
>
> I read and heard that satellite TV services for TV stuff can be cheaper
> and better quality. We will also need to get a new DVR (we still have
> VCRs, but why?) to replace DTVPal DVR (only for OTA). There are several
> satellite TV services like EchoStar, DishTV, DirecTV, etc. Which ones to
> get? We have never owned satellite TV services before so this will be
> new to us. Also, we still use old CRT TVs but we will get HDTV ones
> later on when they break/die.
>
> Thank you in advance. :)
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