I believe you've been a dish customer so long you don't want to try and embrace/learn a new system. Nothing wrong with this at all. However, you can't compare technology if you're biased against one or the other.
it has nothing to do with a learning curve, it has to do with the features and ease of use.
1. Yes, I can sort my recordings by category, but I still have 30-40 shows listed. Dish - create folders, put shows in folders. Fairly simple. I did not have 50 kids shows on my dvr luist, I had a folder showing kids.....with all the shows in it.
That is not wanting to learn a new system, that is wondering why in the 21st century I can't create my own folders to store shows in.
directvtopc - again, it does NOT stream live tv....period. Dish does. With dish, as long as I have an internet connection, I can watch live tv, be it at home or in a different state.
With directvtopc, I have to record it 1st, then go to watch it.
try going out to your garage on saturday and watch/listen to college football games with directvtopc......good luck. 1st you need to decide which games to record, then at least on my computer it never resumes, but always starts back at the beginning. late in the 4th quarter in 2 games, both come down to the last possession. have fun trying to flip between them.
Dish - is exactly like sitting in front of the tv/receiver.
You do have to pull up the guide, but I just had 2 windows open......click it and hit watch.......
that has nothing to do with me not wanting to learn a new system - that has everything to do with directv not even coming close to offering the same services. You can NOT watch live tv on directvtopc....period.
Slow motion - tell u what, google "directv HR34 slow motion" and view the results. Basically people saying it does not work and a whole bunch or threads about slow motion being "quirky".....
Now google "dish 722 slow motion" - you will get a couple, only a couple "jerky" threads....period.
It is not like I just loved dish to death and thought why not change and not try to learn a new system.........no, I changed and the only thing I learned was that directv does not have many features that I just took for granted and figured anyone writing software would throw on a device - like being able to create folders.
Go to your dvr and hit list..........now imagine if you did that and instead of a hundred listings. that yes you can sort them by category, but instead you had 3 or 4 folders.....period. Any show u want to watch is in your folder, kids shows in another folder etc......tghat is not wanting to learn a new system, and that was using the 722 receiver that was a few years old......not a highly touted home media receiver that directv gave me.
U like directv, that is fine. me, I personally like being able to organize what i watch, being able to watch live tv on my computer and having slow motion - not having dvr functions in my other rooms is my bad....tho with the dish hopper, their multi room dvr, you do. I made the mistake of thinking directv was similar technology, so was my bad.
I did not know that not having those features just meant I needed to 'learbn a new system". Tho u are correct in that for now at least, I need to learn to live without them.
In one post, someone mentioned the 722 did not record the 2nd tv in HD - that is just wrong. It recorded both in HD. You could watch an hd DVR show and record 2 hd shows. I have not watched a standard show in who knows how long.
Down side with the 722 was the range. One bedroom worked off the receiver in the family room. The remote had a hard time, was out of range, and it was not that far away. I ended up fixing it by wrapping a speaker wire around the antennae and running it up behind the main tv towards the ceiling....worked fine then.
With the 722, if you wanted to watch picture in picture, that tied up the whole receiver. The other room had to watch that....I am thinking they could not even watch the dvr. Only time I ever used that tho was on saturdays for football games, so was never a huge deal.
Dish did not have amc.
I had to get the multi-sports package for $9.99 to get the Big Ten channel, even tho when I 1st got it, it listed the Big ten channel in the top 250.
dish had it's faults, but they now look miniscule to not being able top organize your dvr recordings, not being able to stream live tv and no slow motion.......,.
