I like dish, only a few times have we lost service because of weather, but we have had a lot of equipment problems through the 2 years with them. They have all been fixed, so other than that i like the boxes, i love my 722k, and i like the programming, we have Dish Latino Max and just added hbo again. I just don't like to pay for equipment when I still have to pay monthly as well. I got all my current equipment at no costs, 722k, actually have 3 ota tuner modules because of an ordering mistake, did not pay for any, 2 211ks w/ dvr, and a 222k I own that dish gave us because of all the issues we had with the 612. I would like to upgrade to the hopper because during the day we always have issues with one of my dads recordings coming up and my mother not able to watch something in the living room which has the 211k with dvr. Would prefer to keep the 722k but that is not an option, so its a 2 hopper system we would need. But I really don't want to pay $215 to upgrade to 2hoppers and 3 joeys plus another $30 to get sling, i am already paying dish $120 a month and I am willing to resign for 2 years. Because of this, we are out of contract snice november, I am seriously considering leaving dish for fios. We left fios becauese of the horribale STB they had, but they have new ones that I got to use at my brohters house that work very well and a new hd guide, they have 500GB which is apparently the only user accessible portion of the Hooper so its the same size, much better than the old ones which only had 160gb. We kept fios internet and phone when we left, but just got rid of the phone for magic jack. So the fios internet is going to be around $74 a month by it self, so with dish and internet we are paying $194 a month, if we upgraded to the hoppers, disregarding the upgrade cost it would be $198 a month.
We have 3 dvrs now because both 211s have ehd, my little brother really did not want to lose dvr, the multi-room on fios does not give the other boxes actual dvr functions, just viewing, so I priced out fios double play with 1 home media dvr, 2 dvr, and 2 hd boxes, with hbo, extreme hd, and the Spanish channels. And each dvr will have 2 tuners, and the other boxes will be able to watch stuff on the home media and vod. The Spanish channels were another reason we left, but they have added all the ones dish has plus some. The Spanish package and hbo are half off for a year. This pricing is for no contract with fios, which i love, the first year we will pay $165. The second year would be the same as dish at the current price, which most likely will go up, but fios has a 2 year price guarantee, it will be $195 the second year.
Plus if i spread out the upgrade cost for dish over 2 years, that is almost another $9 a month. so the first year we will save $38 a month ($456 yr), the second year at least $8 a month($96 yr). Plus we can leave any time if they lose any channels.
What we lose with fios that we watch: BBCA HD, the Spanish hd channels, which is not really a big deal since my mom and grandmother can't tell the difference, lol
What we gain that we watch or would watch: MSNBC HD, NatGeo Wild HD, Versus HD, G4, Teen nick, nicktoons, ABC Fam HD, CW HD, i think PBS HD, Planet Green HD, cooking channel, Science channel HD, Smithsonian HD, NFL network hd, the other espn channels in hd, and some others. Dish has almost all thease channels but not in our package, to get them with dish it would be about $20-30 more a month to go up to AT250 plus Spanish add on package.
The only thing really keeping me from pulling the trigger is that I have tons of stuff, movies and shows, saved up on my EHD, would hate to lose this stuff. Also going from 4 to 2 tuners on my dvr, but they have good on demand so that might take care of that.
And actually writing this out and going through the channels is making it sound even better. Plus, for about $10 more we can upgrade to 25/25 internet, we have 15/5 now. And I could sell the OTA tuners and 222k.
But i thought I would give it a shot posting this, maybe a dirt member can offer something, and at the least let whoever at dish reads this know exactly why i am leaving.
We have 3 dvrs now because both 211s have ehd, my little brother really did not want to lose dvr, the multi-room on fios does not give the other boxes actual dvr functions, just viewing, so I priced out fios double play with 1 home media dvr, 2 dvr, and 2 hd boxes, with hbo, extreme hd, and the Spanish channels. And each dvr will have 2 tuners, and the other boxes will be able to watch stuff on the home media and vod. The Spanish channels were another reason we left, but they have added all the ones dish has plus some. The Spanish package and hbo are half off for a year. This pricing is for no contract with fios, which i love, the first year we will pay $165. The second year would be the same as dish at the current price, which most likely will go up, but fios has a 2 year price guarantee, it will be $195 the second year.
Plus if i spread out the upgrade cost for dish over 2 years, that is almost another $9 a month. so the first year we will save $38 a month ($456 yr), the second year at least $8 a month($96 yr). Plus we can leave any time if they lose any channels.
What we lose with fios that we watch: BBCA HD, the Spanish hd channels, which is not really a big deal since my mom and grandmother can't tell the difference, lol
What we gain that we watch or would watch: MSNBC HD, NatGeo Wild HD, Versus HD, G4, Teen nick, nicktoons, ABC Fam HD, CW HD, i think PBS HD, Planet Green HD, cooking channel, Science channel HD, Smithsonian HD, NFL network hd, the other espn channels in hd, and some others. Dish has almost all thease channels but not in our package, to get them with dish it would be about $20-30 more a month to go up to AT250 plus Spanish add on package.
The only thing really keeping me from pulling the trigger is that I have tons of stuff, movies and shows, saved up on my EHD, would hate to lose this stuff. Also going from 4 to 2 tuners on my dvr, but they have good on demand so that might take care of that.
And actually writing this out and going through the channels is making it sound even better. Plus, for about $10 more we can upgrade to 25/25 internet, we have 15/5 now. And I could sell the OTA tuners and 222k.
But i thought I would give it a shot posting this, maybe a dirt member can offer something, and at the least let whoever at dish reads this know exactly why i am leaving.
