Dish Network, DirectTV, or Comcast?

Sattelite Fails. only thing i really know is im paying about 60 bucks a month for 3 receivers with time warner (which took over comcast last i heard)

I have a moderate channel package with Comcast, and it’s just under $50 a month. I love it, especially for the OnDemand function. I’d highly recommend it.

I love Direct TV. Only the worst of the worst storms knocks it out which is a few minutes here or there!!

I am waiting for AT&T U-verse. I hate Comcast.

I know it’s not in the list, but we’re using Verizon’s Fios. We started out wanting Comcast, but they stood me up 3 (THREE) times. I stayed home each of those days but they couldn’t be bothered. I even saw Comcast trucks in the neighborhood. So I canceled and told them never mind. Then they got all upset and wondered why we were switching.

I’ve had multiple other nightmarish experiences with Comcast, but I hope it’s the last experience I’ll have with them.

We are VERY happy with Fios.

I hate the cable company’s customer service but their Video service is stable. I have DirecTV because they can provide the premium channels that the cable company can’t deliver. I also get out-of-market stations/programming with the premium sports packages and local broadcast programming. Neither one is cheap. If you want cheap, get yourself the digital boxes for the broadcast channels/network. They’re pretty good, I must say, in comparison to the analog programming.

I can’t say much about comparisons or pricing, but I’m very satisfied with DirecTV in terms of channel selection, signal quality, and customer support. You always get a real person on the line when you call customer service, and they send technicians out on the next day. We’ve had them install the dish, then move it at a later time, then replace a receiver. All of this was done for free and in little time.

comcast is horrible. They nickel and dime you to death in any way they can. Rental charges for all of the equipment EVEN the remote ? Good grief.

They make presumptive errors for bogus charges on your bill all the time so you have to watch them like a hawk.

When we had Dish Network in Philly. We were very happy with it. Never any extra charges not even for service calls.

Here in Mich. we currently use ATT. the only caveat would be that they have a LOT of bugs to work out in the programming that controls the DVR system. It randomly erases stuff frequently with no rhyme or reason. Lots of other glitches. A horrible experience overall.

But on the whole, a much better company to deal with than Comcast.

Cost-wise, Dish Network had the lowest rates, Comcast the highest.

@Cruiser & @Ivan I agree. We’ve had DirectTV for years & years. We started out with them when they were PrimeStar a loooong time ago. Yes, you have to put up with the weather outages every now & then, but we’d never go with anyone else. Cable? Bah! I’ve never heard one good thing about ComCast.

Ditch all of them, the internet is where it’s at. Been cable free for the last 2 years, I don’t miss it at all. Youtube, Hulu, Netflix has me pretty well covered for just about everything. The quality is just as good as standard television. They don’t pound you over the head with too much advertising (very quick 30 second ads on hulu vs atleast 1 minute and 30 second advertising breaks on tv. One of the best parts is how by default everything is ala cart. You pick and choose just what you want to watch. You don’t have to conform to tv scheduling. Say your favorite show is on at 6PM, but you’re at work. Or two shows are on at the same time. The best part of all, it’s free (well sorta, you have to have an internet connection, but that does way more than cable tv anyway) and it’s only getting better.

The only real thing cable tv has over the internet is live sports. If you care about sports a lot, than go for cable.

But as for quality between all the companies you mentioned above (dish, direct tv, comcast), it really depends on your area. I assume you live in the US, which as you know is a big wide spread place. Quality varies from place to place.