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@comcast.net | Dying Dish Yeah baby! I will be the first to dance on their grave when they die. May even send flowers as well. | |
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belawrence
It's All About The Games
join:2000-08-06
Santee, CA
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Cox HSI
| Re: Dying Dish said by Larry_O :
Yeah baby! I will be the first to dance on their grave when they die. May even send flowers as well.
Case in point - this same post or a slight variation of it appears every time Dish Network is the subject (see my first post). If you wish them dead just be prepared to pay more for other services due to less competition. | |
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jaymerkramer
join:2002-12-11
Saint Peters, MO
| I love my Dish The Dish VIP HD receivers are far and away the best on the market. I switched from DirecTV to Dish 2 years ago and have been very impressed with all of the upgrades they keep adding the VIP series of receivers. Being able to record 3 HD streams while watching something recorded in HD is just awesome. I can't wait for the new series coming out with the built in slingbox I will definatly be upgrading. | |
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CylonRed
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| We aren't getting FIOS
and I have never needed Dish support for anything in....... 2+ years - love my Dish which was cheaper than DircTv at the time for what I have - and I think still cheaper. But I would be forced to go anything BUT Time Warner... Downright terrible service in my area.
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Brian
"It drops into your stomach like a Abrams's tank.... driven by Rosanne Barr..." A. Bourdain | |
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MTU
Premium
join:2005-02-15
San Luis Obispo, CA | Dish Dish Customer for four years. Excellent programming & cost. Definitely better than local options of Charter & DTV.
Listening to sorrowful stock report on SFO radio was surprised to hear that Dish was UP, but related Echostar was down. | |
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rick4769
@rr.com | Re: DirecTV > Dish Dish Network after 7 years still refuses to carry the YES Network on their system. If you are a Yankee fan, this drives you to Direct TV or cable. | |
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Vinnie 2 Times
@rr.com
| re: The real story FYI:
DISH has Fox News (and CNN's Headline News) in their basic $20 per month "family" package. Locals are $5 extra, but I just use an indoor antenna with a DTV box to save $5/mth.
DISH doesn't have a phone line "requirement". Perhaps this is for Pay Per View, which I never use.
In comparison, my local Cable provider's basic service is about $15 per month (Time Warner) with no 24 hour national news, and worthless home shopping, infomercial, and espanol channels.
DISH NETWORK is the least expensive service out there today (at least in my area) if you watch very little TV and just mainly need 24 hour news/weather. Plus the NASA channel is nice to have, especially considering it's the last few years of their Space Shuttle program.
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
·SONIC.NET
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
·MM INTERNET, INC.
The real story
Dish is losing customers because
1) Their HD-dual receiver only supports one HD set.
2) Cable triple-play offerings -appear- to offer more under teaser rates, including superior VOD.
3) Directv is bundling locals AND Fox News in their basic $29.99 package.
4) They continue to raise rates like everyone else and hide behind "the content providers made us do it."
4a) The stupid phone line requirement.
Dish needs to get back to its roots, when they offered DishPix, and give America ala carte options. Pair that with a true dual-HD receiver (no extra box to rent), and improve the pre-paid options (support dual receivers, ala carte subscriptions), and Dish will rise again.
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ultracooldave
@verizon.net
| Dish HD Reading many of the posts here its obvious that those not liking Dish Hd have either never tried it or had a bad install. I have found a vast difference in installs by local Dish businesses and ordering through their corp. office-Always order on their toll-free number! Many of these local installers are simply not trained enough, or motivated enough to do it properly- at least in my area of So. Cal.
From my dual pickup dish I get 2 seperate HD progs on my DVR and another seperate HD prog, on a second HD box- 3 seperate HD stations going at the same time- the poster who said this was impossible probabily got a bad install.
I could not be more happy than with Dish- the channel info and 1 button guide is much better than Direct- I added a 1000gig ext. hard drive to my HD DVR with uSB 2.0 and now can add over 300 HD movies instantly available in 1080I. I have no need to be involved with Blu ray. If I run out of room I will spend another $100 on another ext drive. I can also take the hard drive and simply plug it into my other standard HD box and watch HD movies recorded on it.
I am told that you can plug it into any HD Dish box whose owner has paid the one time $50 fee (per account not per box) to turn that feature on- a lot easier than carrying around 300 blu ray discs. Although the drive is encripted you can make an exact copy of it ( on a PC) and plug that into a standard Dish HD box for about 900 hours of HD (1000 gig harddrive) playback.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the cost is less than 50 cents per HD movie!-makes the perfect gift too. If you are a dish customer you really should pay the fee to turn this feature on ASAP before they discontinue it. | |
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| Mac25
join:2008-03-09
Kiln, MS | Re: Dish HD Dish wont be missed here, too costly for whats recieved, go away charlie. BYE | |
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megarock
join:2001-06-28
Saint Louis, MO
·Charter Pipeline
| Gee... Considering Dish would axe my account when the entire due amount was 72.00 shows how much they cared about their customers. I had been a on time customer every single month for three years and because of being in the hospital I missed my due date one time and chopped my service for such a measly amount.
That's sad considering I had no major issues with their service, normal billing or the such and enjoyed it much more than cable service in the area at the time. But as it stands I refuse to pay them that 72.00 just on principle.
Now they get what they deserve. Maybe they should be a little more customer friendly. | |
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ultracooldave
@verizon.net
| Re: Gee... I am late 2-3 weeks EVERY month-they call (my answering machine) but they have never cut off the service, once I was 5 weeks over- never cut it off.
Their call is more of a friendly reminder than a threat to terminate service, I just refuse to pay bills in the middle of the month-paying at the end has to be good enough.
You never did explain what the $72 is for-if its for programming you have to pay them like everyone else. | |
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wh5916
join:2006-02-09
Newport News, VA
| Dish Network Pricing I subscribe to DishFamily and the Starz/Encore movie pack with Dish...my monthly rate (standard pricing, no special deals) is $34.38. Show me a DirecTV package that offers comparable programming, at the same price or below, and I'll switch back to Direct...and I'm not talking about 12 month deals. I'm talking about plain vanilla, every day rates.
No comparable DirecTV package you can think of, short of 12 month introductory specials? I didn't think so. I dumped DirecTV two years ago, after 8 years of subscribing, because the rate increases were getting extreme. Dish suffers from the same "raise the rates every year" mentality, but Dish still offers some the best deals in satellite programming out there. If I ever dump Dish, I won't be going back to DirecTV and its overpriced service...I'll dump subscription television altogether. For now, though, I'm very happy with Dish. | |
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