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Well, you could switch to Verizon FIOS and get all that. We finally canned DirecTV this spring, saved a bunch of money and got Verizon FIOS with new TiVo Premieres and cable cards. The TiVo Premieres transfer freely betweeen units, network with the internet/Amazon/You Tube/Netflix/etc. ad...

Your boss should be in jail. What he is doing is illegal. Report it to the local police and get out of there, or you will be joining your cheating boss in jail. Finding another job is no picnic, but it beats being in jail and paying for lawyers.

Overall, we are very, very happy with our switch from D* to FIOS. Here are some random thoughts and comparisons if you are ever thinking about leaving D*: Things we'll certainly miss about D*: 1. D's terrific sports coverage and packages-none better 2. Channel 101 3. The "list"...

We terminated our DirecTV service (after fourteen years) three days ago, and afterwards received ten calls from DirecTV, only two of which we answered. The first was to express regret we had cancelled and then to offer us $150 credits and some temporary package breaks like "free HD" for six...

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Scoop-we moved in 2008 to a more rural part of Collin County (still suburban enough to get fiber!), and we have some land around us, with no real wind break on the South side. Our dish is installed very securely, and has been looked at and strengthened four times,tightened, braced, etc. I've...

Thanks riffjim. I had gotten just one FIOS box here in my little upstairs man den, and messed with service and capabilities for a coupe of months before we changed everything. Thank goodness the new TiVo premiere came out just at the right time! Our daughter has FIOS at her house and has...

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Things I learned wiring our house two years ago: 1. Always put in two more wires than you need. Wire is cheap, retro wiring is not. I would have had to add wires for Sirius radio tuners, whole house modulator feedback and two extra antenna wires for my new TiVo boxes. 2, Add much more...

Well, our reasons may be "wrong," and there is always room for spirited debate, but we sure are happy in our "wrongness," as are no doubt many who voted for our current President and Congress. Freedom of consumer choice is the key. I make no argument for rightness, or that FIOS is better than...

We have had DirecTV service since 1997, with the Premiere package and, at times, as many as five boxes, now four (well, zero today), hooked up to a whole house audio video network. For a variety of reasons, we've finally and happily said a final good-bye to DirecTV effective today. We are now...

Wow, people seem excitable about this. Seems to me that the original summary was correct, subject to wildly differing opinions, of course: DirecTV is better for sports and has more versatile DVRs. FIOS does not compress picture or sound, and most think picture and sound are better, is more...

Well, Mr. Stonecold, you may be right in saying what policy is supposed to be now, but I have had three owned boxes changed out under the protection plan, and they were all replaced with leased boxes, despite emails, calls and letters to D* by us protesting this and wanting our replacement boxes...

Another "highly qualified" DirecTV installer. In all our years of DirecTV service, we have only had one guy who knew what he was doing and had good product knowledge. He was a custom installer that we paid, because we did not trust anything in our new house to the idiots from D*.

We also have FIOS. The FIOS "protection plan" is exactly as it should be: if the box fails, they replace it. No service fee, no charge, no upgrade, no hassle. what a concept. No wonder most people choose FIOS over D* if they can get FIOS. We are dumping D*, in part because of crap like...

If your older Hughes box is owned, and likely it is, then you just trash it. DirecTV absolutely will no longer replace an owned box with an "owned" box. The replacement you get will be leased, and they will likely "make a mistake" and put a two year service commitment on you when you activate...

We have both FIOS and DirecTV in an attempt to compare them and decide whether to dump DirecTV. DirecTV has much better HD DVRs, with better remotes (can be coded-not so on FIOS), greater hard disk capacity (and can be hacked for more) and better (more) sports. FIOS is much better at...

We've been trying our FIOS on one TV by way of one of their triple play discount packages (we already had FIOS internet and phone, added the TV and actually reduced our cost for all three compared with what we'd paid for two before). If we make the switch to all FIOS and dump DirecTV, it will...

I agree with both Scott and cfb. Our solution is to go to Verizon FIOS, but to avoid Verizon's crappy boxes by getting HD TiVos with cablecards. I was one of the very first HR-250 owners in the North Texas area, but Scott has reminded me of all the drama/delays surrounding that release, and...

There are always some very good people who work in very bad companies, and in this economy maybe glad to have the job. Stonecold is one of the good guys and has always been helpful on this Forum. It does not surprise me that people have presumed on his goodwill and required him to make this...

Class actions do not usually result in a lot of benefit to individual consumers, but they are often tremendous clubs to bludgeon companies who victimize consumers (like DirecTV) with false, misleading or deceptive acts or trade practicies. I notice that the Court did not make any ruling on the...

I just can't imagine any woman intelligent enough to not have cable having anything to do with a guy who would deal with Comcast. The compatability seems to me to be a much bigger issue than what to do with D*. At least there was no proposed option to just accept his horrible Comcast, which...

Same thing-three unwanted Monsters v Aliens. I have not tried to duplicate the other problems. I just erased the recordings. We also had some cutesy reminder about "TVMAIL" like it was some benefit to us, instead of an obnoxioous way for D* to push advertising on us. Some of you know we...

There are several issues in your story which have appeared far more often over the past six months: 1. DirecTV's false, misleading and deceptive acts and trade practices with respect to customer commitments, owned receivers and cancellation fees. 2. The fact that "leasing" equipment did...

Wow! I'm not an evangelist for DirecTV's interface, but we are currently messing with the FIOS HD DVR to see if we could live with it if we switched. The answer is no. In our opinion, the FIOS box hardware and user interface are the worst in the industry-really awful. On it's worst day...