Who still has directv satellite?

I was very satisfied with DIRECTV when I had it

I've had Directv satellite TV service since 2008. Other than frequent price increases the service has been great. To my surprise, AT&T ran fiber optic cable in front of my rural home in mid-Nov. It took 9 weeks since the FO cable was buried before home installation was made available. I have had the FO service for a week now. It is super fast and cheaper than my old copper wired Uverse service.

I am waiting a while on deciding to switch my tv service to steaming Direct TV service or a competitor streaming TV service. I want to make sure of the FO service reliability mainly. I have also heard reports that DirectTV no longer sells service via satellite dishes. If you live where internet streaming services are already available, regardless of internet provider company, they won't sell you service via a satellite dish. You can only subscribe to DirectTV Streaming.

I would hate to switch to a streaming TV service, find that I'm not satisfied with it, and then have DirectTV refuse to reconnect me via my old satellite dish. My current DirectTV service automatically switches to streaming when occasional weather issues affect the dish reception.

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However, the recent ice storms on the east coast have demonstrated exactly why I've kept it. I don't want to be beholden to 1 company for both internet AND entertainment. We have underground power, so it's VERY RARE that it goes off. If I lose Internet, I can still watch DirecTV. If DirecTV goes down (weather related (heavy rain/snow), I can still stream.

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My fiber has never, not once, gone down. That includes during Ida.

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Good for you.

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Sure, but my point was less that “I’m so lucky” and more that fiber is inherently more reliable. In my opinion, planning around its outages doesn’t seem worthwhile, short of some hyper specific situation.

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It doesn't have to be a storm, it can be a yehaw on a back hoe that takes out your fiber.

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Like the chick in the SUV that hit the distribution point for T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T, and took out uVerse for 1,000 homes in my hood.

Apply the same principles to your shitty dish. How many times have you been out at a bar in heavy rain and all the TVs go dead until that part of the storm passes? What if your dish gets hit by lightning? What if the the internal wiring frays and it shorts itself? What about your distribution boxes inside the house? What if one of your kids spills Kool Aid on it?

Fiber is inherently more reliable than anything else, including cable. I bet you're waiting for the fad of automatic transmissions to pass, too.

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Apply the same principles to your shitty dish. How many times have you been out at a bar in heavy rain and all the TVs go dead until that part of the storm passes?

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Most often it's snow build up on the dish itself. But in that case, I can stream until I 1) wipe the dish off or 2) it melts.

It's has noting to do with being for or against fiber internet. My point was simply this: I have a contingency plan if one or the other system fails. It about not having all of your eggs in 1 basket. That's all.

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while having extra baskets for your eggs is ideal, if there is a financial/time/aggravation cost to keeping that extra basket, the risk of dropping the eggs becomes relevant in the analysis.

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It's an extra call that I'm willing to accept.

Been with dish network for about 7 years and been a happy customer. Rarely goes out with weather and the dvr features are great. It was crucial after Ida being able to watch the news during the two week power outage. Since that happened it has become a part of our emergency preparedness.

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DTV Stream is pretty neat but if you want the DTV experience with a numbered, channel guide you will need to get a box from them and then you are back in DTV Hell of paying for receiver boxes and such.

I had DTV for years and when I switched to YoutubeTV I missed the numbered guide. But I got used to it, especially at the significantly reduced costs.

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I have been comparing all the streaming services and directv's looks the best. Especially if you rent the gemini box. I am considering leaving Cox, because I can't stand the price increase. It went up twice in the same month. I'm around 215 for TV only and 4 boxes that aren't even unlimited.

Directv's streaming has so many cool things like multiview and the ability to stream unlimited at home and up to 3 devices on the road. You could even take the gemini with you and use it if you really wanted to. They also seem to offer more channels than the other services. They also have unlimited DVR which is really nice. I am sure the other streaming services have this, but Cox does not. I can only record 2 things at once.

The remote control being more like a traditional cable remote really separates them from the other streaming services. The cool thing about directv's services is you can lock in the price for 2 years, but cancel any time without a penalty. After the first three months a certain promotion may come off, but not the other promotion. And you have to remember to cancel any of the free 3 month trials of any additional channels if you don't get the top tier package.