Bye Bye Dish

[voodooevil]

i tried.....good luck, nothing compares to the hopper/joey.
join a streaming group on FB and all they do is complain about poor quality across the board


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[HipKat]

I guess most of you that stream don't have Caps on your broadband?

I don't. And I stream everything. If not TV, then music. Sometimes both. Sometimes 2 TV's and one of my monitors all at the same time. I d/l @ 940Mb/s+ so I can handle the payload, even with my VPN running on all my devices.

 

[Jimbo]

Mine does, the standard 1.2tb, but even having been all streaming for 3 years now, we have only gone over a couple of times, and have never paid for it.

My internet Caps start at 250GB ... must be nice to have over a TB available to you.

 

[300mag]

There are no service providers..you buy directly from the source

Really you want to pick apart words. Oh geezI said service not service providers . The service being youtube, Hulu, Amazon, Apple and every other streaming Service that exists now.

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[mwdxer1]

It takes alot of streaming to equal any Dish at package

Totally agree. I have AT250, Movies, & Supers. I cannot find anything out there that compares to what Dish offers. Local Spectrum cable can't, Direct can't, and I do have streaming as an add on with Roku and Fire Sticks. As of now, there are still many TV services that are not available via streaming. For the cost, Dish can't be beat. In 5 or 10 years from now, who knows? If I went to only streaming and free OTA, there are too many services that I will miss. Dish has everything together. But to each their own. Everyone wants something different. Streaming is a great add-on, but nothing else.

 

[Juan]

Really you want to pick apart words. Oh geezI said service not service providers . The service being youtube, Hulu, Amazon, Apple and every other streaming Service that exists now.

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No..the service being discovery, peacock, espn etc etc etc not resellers

 

[Jimbo]

Totally agree. I have AT250, Movies, & Supers. I cannot find anything out there that compares to what Dish offers. Local Spectrum cable can't, Direct can't, and I do have streaming as an add on with Roku and Fire Sticks. As of now, there are still many TV services that are not available via streaming. For the cost, Dish can't be beat. In 5 or 10 years from now, who knows? If I went to only streaming and free OTA, there are too many services that I will miss. Dish has everything together. But to each their own. Everyone wants something different. Streaming is a great add-on, but nothing else.

I could say the same about Directv ... but I get what your saying ...

Each person has thier likes and dislikes.

 

[jackson85]

My local coop phone Co. is running fiber down my road and the installers said it should be getting hooked up in the next week or so, as soon as my Dish contract is up, i will be pulling the plug and going streaming, for a lot less money, with no "total signal loss" messages anymore, and no QVC or garbage channels. I think that rural fiber will make satellite service obsolete in the next few years.

Where do you live? The local Frontier in my town installed fiber, a few years ago, but was only for telephone services

 

[TheKrell]

Can you explain why that is that much of an improvement? Do people really use their guide to figure out what they want to watch multiple days in advance? I truly don't get it.

I record everything I even might want to watch. I do this so that

1. I don't miss anything
2. I don't have to watch a short guide incessantly so that I don't miss something
3. I can skip over the *&^%$#@! commercials

If something I recorded isn't really that good, then I delete it.

 

[tanman]

I don't and I have Spectrum Cable for internet. They went up $5.00 a month but we went from 100mpbs to 200 mpbs. So it was worth the price hike to double the speeds.

Spectrum(Charter) promised to not impose caps as a condition of the merger with part of Warner.A few months ago they petitioned the FCC to impose data caps two years early.By a sheer coincidence they dropped that petition in early January(or thereabouts).
How much do you pay?I' m paying 75 for 100 down.Never got an offer to double for 5 bucks more.
What's really needed is competition outside the cities. Too much of the United States has only one quality ISP.While Starlink looks great it is not conceived to be competition in urban areas.

 

[ncted]

I record everything I even might want to watch. I do this so that

1. I don't miss anything
2. I don't have to watch a short guide incessantly so that I don't miss something
3. I can skip over the *&^%$#@! commercials

If something I recorded isn't really that good, then I delete it.

This sounds a lot like how I use YTTV, except there is no deletion and recordings only stick around for 9 months. No data caps here with AT&T Gig Fiber, but even their lower-tier plans have a 1TB cap, which we have never gone over.

 

[charlesrshell]

Spectrum(Charter) promised to not impose caps as a condition of the merger with part of Warner.A few months ago they petitioned the FCC to impose data caps two years early.By a sheer coincidence they dropped that petition in early January(or thereabouts).
How much do you pay?I' m paying 70 plus taxes for 100 down.Never got an offer to double for 5 bucks more.
What's really needed is competition outside the cities. Too much of the United States has only one quality ISP.While Starlink looks great it is not conceived to be competition in urban areas.

Call Charter and ask about better deals. That's how I find out most of the time.

 

[300mag]

No..the service being discovery, peacock, espn etc etc etc not resellers

Do you even read, when did I say resellers or service providers. Anyway I'm moving on. Happy Trolling

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[Juan]

Do you even read, when did I say resellers or service providers. Anyway I'm moving on. Happy Trolling

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Not trolling..just trying to explain streaming doesnt have to be cable over internet

 

[ncted]

A particular streaming nuisance is that you can't switch channels quickly without waiting to choose a different service and then load/buffer (using ROKU here). With a sports package, you can't quickly flip between games. Picture in picture with another service is also a no go.

This is a very good point for people who have become accustomed to watching this way. I will say, it was the input switching delay/annoyance between the Dish STB and the streaming devices that really drove us to go all-streaming as more and more of what we watched wasn't on linear channels or the DVR.

 

[charlesrshell]

This is a very good point for people who have become accustomed to watching this way. I will say, it was the input switching delay/annoyance between the Dish STB and the streaming devices that really drove us to go all-streaming as more and more of what we watched wasn't on linear channels or the DVR.

OH no. Where are your Hoppers ncted?

 

[tanman]

Call Charter and ask about better deals. That's how I find out most of the time.

Actually just did a chat with Spectrum(good experience BTW) and it turns out I'm not paying 5 bucks tax like I thought.It 74.99 a month no tax.Very strange since VT tends to tax anything that moves or doesn't.I was informed that the 200 down was not available in my area yet but when Spectrum upgrades the technology I will get that speed AT NO EXTRA CHARGE.
One thought went through my head(after chatting).How many pay hikes will happen before then?Oh well-no big deal at this point.There's only 2 of us so we can stream and have connected devices no problem.Hopefully by the time my Panasonic plasma dies and I have to go 4k(or 8k) the speed will go up .
Back when it was Charter I used to call and tell them I was going to switch to DSL(big lie-I don't even think it was on my street back then).They'd ask me to sign a contract to get a discount.After thinking for a nano second I'd say ok.Now they have no contracts and I have a feeling they know how real the competition is for an area.

 

[Michael252]

My local coop phone Co. is running fiber down my road and the installers said it should be getting hooked up in the next week or so, ...

Good luck with that. When AT&T ran fiber "down my road," it was almost five years before they put service on it.

 

[charlesrshell]

Actually just did a chat with Spectrum(good experience BTW) and it turns out I'm not paying 5 bucks tax like I thought.It 74.99 a month no tax.Very strange since VT tends to tax anything that moves or doesn't.I was informed that the 200 down was not available in my area yet but when Spectrum upgrades the technology I will get that speed AT NO EXTRA CHARGE.
One thought went through my head(after chatting).How many pay hikes will happen before then?Oh well-no big deal at this point.There's only 2 of us so we can stream and have connected devices no problem.Hopefully by the time my Panasonic plasma dies and I have to go 4k(or 8k) the speed will go up .
Back when it was Charter I used to call and tell them I was going to switch to DSL(big lie-I don't even think it was on my street back then).They'd ask me to sign a contract to get a discount.After thinking for a nano second I'd say ok.Now they have no contracts and I have a feeling they know how real the competition is for an area.

I had Charter's 1G service with DISH TV. Charter raised the price to $135 for 1G so I reduced to their 400 Mbps speed for $95. Haven't had any issues since reducing. Wife is a school teacher at home zooming all day long with all her students while I watch TV and sometimes do some streaming.

 

[Yespage]

I had Charter's 1G service with DISH TV. Charter raised the price to $135 for 1G so I reduced to their 400 Mbps speed for $95. Haven't had any issues since reducing. Wife is a school teacher at home zooming all day long with all her students while I watch TV and sometimes do some streaming.

Egad! $135 for 1 Gbps?

Even without a discount, around here it is $65 or $70. AT&T gets a lot of complaints, but at least in my area, fiber came out relatively early, and the pricing has been very reasonable.