Satellite TV POLL – DISH or DIRECT TV

[jasum]

Direct at home.......

In RV use campground cable so far.....
Have Directv tripod & dish, just have not taken jeanie and clients with us so far, but probably will when camping longer times.


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[jasum]

Spelled Genie wrong......sorry


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[360Bridges]

We have had everything, chose DTV about 20 years ago, will never change!

[pconroy]

We're on Dish after many, many years of DirecTV @ home. Our neighbor in Texas worked for Hughes Electronics and in the mid 90's had a funny satellite dish on his house.

Long story short, I bought my first DirecTV receiver (Sony SAT-A1) around 1996 or so.

Around 2010, give or take, I got tired of their high prices for a lot of #@!@! channels we didn't watch. I called Customer Retention and was expecting to negotiate lower prices, HD feeds, something.

Instead, they offered my nuttin, so I high tailed it to Dish and have been enjoying the lower prices.

[Witt74]

We have Directv at home for many years. Ours is not bundled with AT&T. Used to take a standard dish and receiver with us on camping trips, but have not done so for years. Now we watch over the air or movies, sometimes use an internet connection. 200+ channels are not that great when 90% are infomercial channels.

[TaftCoach]

We cut the cord and use our high speed Internet with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and CBS all access.

[Rustysocket]

I have DirectTV at home and in the RV.

[Northwest Bob]

TaftCoach: So how do you get high speed internet on the road? Most RV parks have pitiful WiFi, no security and precious little bandwidth.

[Northwest Bob]

RustySocket: Do you get HDTV on the road? What do you use for a dish?

[namusmc65]

We use Direct TV at home and on the road. Have been for over 15 years. They have made a killing off me! Love football and would not think of traveling during the football season without my high def satellite! Put up the swm dish and system each time we go camping without any problems. Just take the receivers with me from home.

[Northwest Bob]

We use DirecTV at home. Bought it about 1-1/2 years ago at Costco. Not bundled with AT&T. Have been using over the air TV so far on the road. Lots of good ideas on this thread. I have heard that the only HDTV dish for RVs for DirecTV costs $1,500. Surely my home dish did not cost that much.Any ideas for a less expensive DirecTV HDTV dish?

[RPreeb]

Originally Posted by Seann45

Neither.. I use Shaw Direct

We had Shaw when we lived in the Bahamas. It wasn't actually pirated, but it was a bit convoluted to get it. We had a guy on the island (actually a fishing guide who did satellite TV on the side), he had a connection to a guy in Canada who got the receivers and set up the account through another guy. We paid directly to Shaw, but as far as they were concerned, we were expats living somewhere in Canada.

Don't ask me how the account was set up, but it worked for 2+ years, except when a couple of hurricanes (Irene and Sandy) blew the dish over - of course then we didn't have any power either, so the lack of satellite reception was somewhat irrelevant.

It was really too bad that the only decent service we could get was Canadian - the US providers weren't an option except by actual pirating - I think that there was some paranoia within the Bahamian government about the Bahamas becoming a satellite state of the US, so they seemed to avoid any partnerships like that. We were so close to the edge of the Shaw transmission cone that we had to have a 4 foot dish just to receive standard def, and needed a 6 foot dish for HD.

[Seann45]

Originally Posted by Mustang65

Seann,
If you would have PM'd me before I thought of doing this poll, then when I got the brainstorm I could have added Shaw Direct to the poll.

Thanks, but sorry, I did not even think of the Canadian satellite system.

Don

That's OK Don I know us Canucks don't count anyway... LOL

[Bobx2]

Direct TV at home. No use for a tv, much less satellite, in an rv.

[alcain4]

How difficult is setting up the satellite dish? I just bought the tripod and have not tried yet.

[Rustysocket]

Originally Posted by Northwest Bob

RustySocket: Do you get HDTV on the road? What do you use for a dish?

Yes, I installed a Winegard Traveller system for DirecTV and have one dedicated box in the trailer, and then we take another DVR reciever from the house sometimes too.

[TaftCoach]

Originally Posted by Northwest Bob

TaftCoach: So how do you get high speed internet on the road? Most RV parks have pitiful WiFi, no security and precious little bandwidth.

Sorry. I shouldn't have said high speed on the road, that's at home. On the road we rarely watch TV so if the CG Internet doesn't work we find other things to do. But I've been surprised how well Netflix has worked work with less than ideal speeds.

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