Well, I don't live near you, but I do have DishNetwork right now. Other than.... occassional hardware failures (at least the bugger blows completely up, instead of lurking on the 'maybe I'm broken, maybe you are' shelf), the ONLY troubles that I have had with the service is the satellite connection during harsh weather. YOU know, that weather that keeps you huddled in your home in front of your TV set, well, locally (los angeles), the signal gets 'lost' and interrupts the shows. Although this would be a similar experience with a standard antenna, cable wouldn't leave us so easily.
I would return back to cable, but I had such a horrible experience with their customer service that I can't go back to my local company. '''Now if the feds would deregulate the cable lines....''' William PS. Hardware failures... I had 2 in 3.5 years, both on the main DVR and both were Drive issues. -----Original Message---- -From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Date: Oct 24, 2007 8:58 -To: "CF-Community"<[email protected]> -Subj: Cable or dish? - -So we're exploring television/Internet service options for our new house, -which we need in place by the time we move in on Nov. 10. - - - -Currently, we have AT&T's new service, U-verse, which is IPTV, kind of like -Verizon's FIOS. Believe it or not, podunk Olathe, KS is one of their test -markets. We've had it now for 6 months and are pretty impressed. As with any -new technology, there are bugs, and the DVR has never worked right (in fact, -it's utter crap - drops scheduled shows at random, constantly reboots in the -middle of recording, can't tell the different between first-runs and -re-runs), but overall we're pretty happy with it, especially for the price -we pay ($85 for 200 channels, 6mbps Internet, 4 receivers (one HD), and the -DVR). - - - -Boo-hoo, U-verse isn't available yet in the neighborhood we're moving to, of -course. So we have to get Comcrap - uh, I mean Comcast - or a dish. - - - -I've never had Comcast (Kansas City is split between Comcast and Time Warner -- loved Time Warner when we had it), but pricing them out it appears they -are EXPENSIVE. $160 just for cable/Internet installation and they don't give -us the option to do a self-install for our wireless network (which burns my -hubby to no end - 10 years setting up networks and building computers and -they don't trust him not to screw it up). About $130/month for the service. - - - -We've looked at DISH network and DirecTV (w/ DSL for internet); installation -is cheaper, monthly service is comparable. But we don't know enough about -dish service and its pitfalls to make an informed decision to go for it. - - - -Frankly, I'm just really confused and don't know what to pick. I guess we -really don't like any of our options and are ready to just settle for the -lesser of all evils. - - - -Who here has dish service and can recommend it? What service do you have -with what options and what's been your experience? - - - -Same for Comcast - what do you have and how's it been? - - - -Are there any other alternatives out there to cable/dish we should think -about? We need beefy Internet, wireless networking, at least three -receivers, one of which has to be a good, reliable DVR - ideally we'd love a -whole-home DVR. HD isn't really necessary but will be in the future. We're -also thinking we'd like a whole-home media server, accessed wirelessly, so -we can store our movies/music and watch/listen from anywhere in the home. -Don't know if that's a completely separate concern from the cable/internet -service, but it would be ideal if it were all integrated. - - - -Thanks guys! - - - -Shawna Hampton - -r(E)-Visions Consulting - -www.revisionsconsulting.net - - - - - - - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245005 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
