The advantage to Solid Signal or other online source is getting the model that you want. From Directv there is no guaranty.
D* CEO Mike White says "We’ll Have to Raise TV Prices Again in 2014"
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They all raise prices every year and they all will continue doing so until we stop paying them!! 
I don't think I'd EVER buy one on ebay, too many times people are mislead ... like but here, it's OWNed, BULL.
They all raise prices every year and they all will continue doing so until we stop paying them!!
Not gonna happen ....
Thats like trying to boycott a game, if you don't buy the ticket, someone else will.
I buy from ebay or amazon all the time, Not one issue at all, that's why you research the seller reputation and reviews before buying.
Correct. And this is why free installation will eventually kill the satellite tv business.
Costs for materials and fuel keep rising. Vehicles have to be purchased and maintained. The wages offered to techs keep falling. In fact I can say with all certainty that few techs, especially contractor techs have ever seen an increase in pay. IMO that is unsustainable.
It's already gotten to the point where the more talented techs with the best ability to do the work and the better customer service skills are leaving the business.
They are being replaced with cheap labor.
I would take that trade in a heart beat.
A) I can do it myself. B) I could pick up a hecuva lot of work doing installs for myself. Doing them correctly at an affordable price.
Set my own rates and offer some kind of discount for the first service call not related to failed hardware.
Usually for one year only though. And the customer can cancel at any time with no ETF..
On the other hand a friend of mine who's house was prewired needed a run from the d-mark to his office and the cable co. wanted $175...He called me and I did it in 20 mins. The run was about 25 ft of cable. Disgusting they wanted to charge that much.
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I disagree. Pay tv subs have had it with bundling and being told in order to get one channel, they have to by 25...
It isn't the money that is the prime motivator or a la carte. It is the desire of pay tv subs to be rid of the channels they do not watch or even want to deal with on the guide grid. And even if they can block out the unwanted channels, the perception is the consumer would have 100% control over their viewing choices.
And it seems the a la carte naysayers always land on the same square on the checker board. A la carte would cause prices to skyrocket.
Not one piece of data that is not tied to an opinion piece or one released by a company with an interest in the status quo has ever been shown or published. Factual data that the price increase would come to fruition.
Anyway, I think in the next 10 years pay tv as we know it will be a thing of the past. The cable and satellite industries had better get their engineers and thinkers to work before they find themselves with rapidly shrinking customer bases.
Like Brad Pitt in "Moneyball' Said, "adapt or die"..
I'm already there, I'm going to drop to the lowest package or go on dish pause once football is over in January. College football will be off ESPN and FS1 and most of the NFL will be OTA. We can get everything else we watch OTA and record with Pal dvr's, anything else will come from HuluPlus, Netflix, Amazon or Itunes as needed, but it will be rare. Making a list of what we have set to record and there just isn't much cable fare in the list anymore.
C-Band had ala carte for years and it was always cheaper to buy a package with your channels in it than to purchase the channels separately. That is a fact.
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