Nickname: Marysdude

Review: I've used cable and DTV, and to be honest, both were un-watchable about the same amount of time per year. In other words, cable goes on the fritz and weather interupts DTV to about the same degree. Pricing leans me toward DTV, but I am currently using cable. Go figure.

Date reviewed: Jan 18, 2006 6:30 PM

Nickname: dissatisfied

Review: I agree with the above post by Richard. DirecTV service is atrocious! After being customers for more than five years, our equipment (that we bought when satellite service was in its infancy) gave out. We called and asked about the free equipment with subscription offer that we had seen on TV. They told us we had to buy new equipment (to the tune of about $700.00-$1000.00). We called Dish Network and got exactly what we wanted: new, updated equipment with the same service. Between the customer service and the inability to get reception during inclement weather, DirecTV better get its act together if they ever hope to offer TV and Internet access service. Personally, it will take a whole lot of incentive for me to even consider subscribing to DirecTV again.

Date reviewed: Jan 18, 2006 6:01 PM

Nickname: Richard

Review: I was a DirectTV and Cablevision customer. The only way that a high-speed Internet connection will ever work for DirecTV is if they manage to work out their issues in bad weather. Have you ever tried watching DirecTV in a heavy rain, much less snow? Good luck. Sorry but with digital cable I didn't see any need to keep both. By the way, good luck with DirecTV customer service.

Date reviewed: Jan 18, 2006 3:03 AM

Nickname: Wired-Man

Review: When Yankee Group analyst Boyd Peterson said "Wired systems are too expensive and slow to deploy," he obviously hadn't heard of Winegard's new Home Run. They took the Triple Play, VoIP, Broadband Internet and Satellite/Off-Air Video, one step further, by delivering the Triple Play on one existing RG-6 coax cable easily retrofitting MDUs and SDUs. Then they added new TRIAD triple-stacking technology for total HDTV reception of all HD channels from all three birds, by stacking all three signals and combining them onto a single cable. Before TRIAD, a minimum of two cables had to be pulled to provide full satellite HDTV signals. And to make this bundle absolutely unique, added Advanced Media Services QuantumAlert. It provides proactive Web-enabled real-time 24/7 remote system that simultaneously monitors the entire MDU IP physical signal distribution network of entire properties, single buildings and/or an individual users IP network.

Date reviewed: Jan 17, 2006 6:00 PM

Nickname: MRCADAMURO

Review: What about OPTV and Libety Media? Tell me what you think.

Date reviewed: Jan 17, 2006 3:04 PM