Direct TV and fed up with all the comercial time

tim s

Well-known Member


I am checking to see when my contract expires, I am going to do away
with the service, I am sick and tired of viewing 4 minutes of
commercials to 8 minutes of show, and on top of that paying $80 to watch
them, 80% of the channels that are available to me are worthless info
commercials and garbage, I will be dropping Direct ,,going to a free TV
format and getting Net-Flix, yes I will still be getting commercials on
Free TV "BUT" I will not be paying $80 a month to watch them, Direct TV
has became so greedy that the time has come to turn them away, I am not
the only one in my area that is going to go this way, many of my
neighbors are going to do the same, maybe after Direct TV sees a loss in
market share they will become more customer caring,, They preach
custumer care but fail to actually "care"....
 
We're staying in a "winter house" for three months and while hear - get Direct TV for $100 per month. Seems 95% of it totally worthless and yes - amazingly long commercials. If we were living here full-time - it would be gone. But here in the city of Alpena, Michigan - only three non-PBS channels available over-the-air via a conventional antenna. Once we get back to our more rural place near Rogers City - we get over 20 channels with just an antenna. Even still a few analog from Canada.
 
When Direct TV first became available in Michigan I had my equipment already installed and was ready to go. Tired of broadcast TV. Now I have a second receiver in the bedroom, lots of sports channels, movies, etc. Costs over $130 a month and I am feeling like I need my head examined to pay that. Mainly because a HUGE percentage of the channels have gone to showing back to back repeats of the same show non stop. Take a look at your guide some time. Start around 200 and flip down and count the channels that just show one show over and over. Madness. I need a change also, but if it means watching Detroit broadcast TV...nope. Not much left there for me anymore.
 
Half hour shows are 22 minutes,the rest is commercials. That's the way it is. Even on PBS that's how much show you get,no matter if it's on free or pay TV. Granted,TV Land pushes it to about 40 minutes per show with 22 minutes of content,but that's not just on Direct.
 
It all depends on what you like but did you ever think that the 20% is good stuff and its just not available anywhere else. You must not like any sports.
 
I got rid of my pay TV channels many years ago during lean farming times, and other than some college sports, I don't miss it much at all. When I do have access to it somewhere, I too am not happy with all of the commercials and repeats of old shows. So many things can be seen on the net now. Any good play made in sports will be on the net shortly thereafter.

The only folks that seem to enjoy pay TV are DVRing every show and skipping over the commercials when they watch the shows at their convenience.
 
Yes, Directv. Everything gets DVRd, I don't watch anything as it airs. I haven't watched a commercial in years. Plus I don't get all the way through shows in one sitting very often.

No broadcast stations here, although a high cap, I have cellular home Internet. As soon as I'd drop sat. tv with my luck they'd lower the data cap more or it will quit working. So no cord cutting soon, I would if I had a wired connection or a company with a bit more reliable track record for Internet.

Nice to have something to watch and not have to interact with, though 99% of the shows are junk, and I don't watch any sports. High price but not much choice.
 
I'm sure there are many people who feel differently then me - but I would not pay a dime to watch grown men play with a ball - no matter what shape it is. If crews showed up to my field to have the Super Bowl and offered me a "front row seat" I'd say "no" and throw them all the heck out. That is, unless there was a bunch of money it it for me.

It's bad enough that pay TV is full of sports. Over-the-air TV is also and the few shows we like often get pre-empted so a bunch of grown men and toss a ball around and get paid millions to do it.
 

Lots of wasted channels on Comcast also, but we bundle phone, cable and internet and get a fair deal. For what we use high speed internet for, it more than makes up for the cost. One good deal on CL each month will pay for it all!
 
Direct TV sales rep at Costco this week tried to pitch Direct TV to me. I told him that he couldn't match our deal: We pull in 70 channels on our antenna, including 6 PBS channels, for zero monthly cost. He decided to change the topic and talk about the weather.
 
Yep it's a joke, I only keep it for the cartoons when my daughter and I can't be outside, and TVG for me, the horse racing channel, that really is a good channel.
 
I feel the same way! There all a bunch of rip offs far Im concered. I think I heared the other day a person say we interuped this commercial to bring back to you program. Some channal my wife was watching.
 
jdemaris,

("That is, unless there was a bunch of money it it for me.")

It's all about the money - I'm with Bell,- TV, Phone, and Internet. I never ran over my 3GB until this last year . . .

1) they use to show my mgbs used now they just show the time.

2) commercials all over the place, now moving commercials, they eat mgbs.

3) Today I was on a NEWS site, one paragraph and you had to click on an arrow to read another paragraph, they had so many arrows to commercials you were bound to click on a ad and it was moving, more mgbs.

4) my speed has gone down from 67+- to a solid 54, never moves so I guess I should UP the speed so they can get more $$ out of me, - NOT.

5) News papers on the net now want you to subscribe to their paper $100.00 a year, for limited access to sections.

If every thing will be a la carte, I guess when the population is large enough it will work for them.
 
When we moved to our new house in November, the dish didn't make the move. We bought a small antenna and get up to 13 channels on a good day. Also found that the newer tv gets more than the older ones. I liked recording shows with dish then could skip over the commercials but the cost was too much and most shows we watch we still get on the "farmer four", as they call it around here.
 
We've never had anything but antenna TV but have considered other options, ended up getting a library card. Book Stonewalled by Sharyl Attkisson is better than watching guys kill alligators for two hours.lol
 
We have never had cable. We mainly watch PBS - Masterpeice and Create and This TV for B and C grade movies and commericals. If I want cable, I would go with Tivo to skip the ads but I wouldn't have time for YTmag and other pueter info. As for news, we use Huffington Post and Daily Kos. No FAUX NEWS(?).
 
I did it for the same reason last May - no TV at all since then. It's quiet around the house now, the Wife and I read more, we talk more, and whenever we want to. We don't "compete for air-time" with the TV and little things get done sooner. I don't know which is stranger: the social environment TV creates or the one that surfaces in its absence. I recognize now the TV didn't amount to more than an expensive, noisy, colorful distraction. And it was a powerful distraction.
 
We dropped the dish/cable years ago. I kept it for the kids but when they found Netflix, they never turned it back on. I went to watch a college football game and the kids laughed at me. They said, "That hasn't worked in months". I called, and they wanted $450 to replace the box. I said no and they asked me to return the receiver that I had purchased. I initially fought it, but then realized, "What am I going to use a broken receiver for?" I sent it back to 'em and haven't missed a beat. One day I have to get rid of that dish. It sits a little crooked since I caught it with the back blade… I pay less than 20 a month for both Netflix and Hulu. Aaron
 
I hooked my laptop to my TV with a HDMI cable and streamed the Barrett-Jackson auction. I don't have HD so I couldn't get it on Velocity. NO commercials and no babbling announcers.
 
(quoted from post at 19:53:59 01/31/15) I'm sure there are many people who feel differently then me - but I would not pay a dime to watch grown men play with a ball - no matter what shape it is. If crews showed up to my field to have the Super Bowl and offered me a "front row seat" I'd say "no" and throw them all the heck out. That is, unless there was a bunch of money it it for me.

It's bad enough that pay TV is full of sports. Over-the-air TV is also and the few shows we like often get pre-empted so a bunch of grown men and toss a ball around and get paid millions to do it.

Ditto! Watching cars go around in a circle is even worse and worse than that is "reality tv". I can remember when Friday and Saturday night were when the big 3 had their best shows on. Now, it's the worst shows. My wife and I watched a rerun of "Magnum PI" Friday night and last night I watched "Airplane!".

The really sad part is I pay for this garbage!
 
(quoted from post at 22:49:52 01/31/15) We have never had cable. We mainly watch PBS - Masterpeice and Create and This TV for B and C grade movies and commericals. If I want cable, I would go with Tivo to skip the ads but I wouldn't have time for YTmag and other pueter info. As for news, we use Huffington Post and Daily Kos. No FAUX NEWS(?).

So you prefer your "news" pre-digested and agenda driven? :lol:
 
We no longer watch live TV...We tape everything and fast forward thru the commercials...It turns a 60 minute show in to less than 40 minutes.
 
I read all of the posts and agree with most of them.

Here in Lubbock, Texas we get around 20 stations on an antenna. ABC, NBC, CBS, and the local Fox station are the main ones. We also get MeTV, which we watch a lot. The other stations are either reruns of the main ones or religious or shopping networks, along with a smattering of Hispanic stations.

All that being said, I have had a satellite dish since the smaller ones were available, starting with Pegasus. We get 200 plus channels for $90 a month. We watch maybe ten of them. I also have a problem with paying for commercials.

On the other hand, the main reason I have kept the dish is for Fox News. Yes, I hear the liberals talking about bias, but what in the world do you call that BS on the other big three???? My 89 year old mother shares my DirecTv feed with me and her TV is on Fox a lot. She would most likely watch one of the religious channels if she couldn't get Fox. Nothing against someone's religion, but some of that feed is dangerous as well.

As long as my mother is around I'll keep DirecTv. I do watch the sports on it and I like the History channels and some of the other similar shows. Is it worth the money? I guess so, it's a close call for me. I look at it as spending $3 a day for entertainment. If it gets to be a burden I'll cut out a candy bar or something like that every day to offset the cost.
 
I agree I will miss the History channel,RFD and Fox. My City wife is sure my neck is too Red,,I will be watching Fox and she will roll her eyes and I then switch it to the "left" (CNN) for her, then later I will put it in the "Middle" (RFD) for a bit,, then back to the "Right" (FOX),,The news company's are so "Full" of Drama,, But we have this President because he had the big 3 in his pocket... As for the Old Shows, like The Rifleman, Wanted Dead or Alive, Big Valley, and Bonanza... they all had a good Moral to their stories, newer shows glamorize drugs and evil..Our kids would do better with out most of the Newer shows..and if any one has noticed the Morals of our children has went down since the old shows have gone by the side..
 
I'd check to see what it would cost to dump it, and compare that to the cost to stay connected until the contract sets you free. If it's a $200 penalty and you only have three months left until you're free, contractually speaking, then it's a decision as to whether what you're watching is worth the $40. $960 a year is too much for us, based on the content that they send us. We dumped ours many years ago, and I think the last straw was an increase to $80 per month. Everyone in the home has to be on board with the decision - "Never anger the cook" is my motto.

We were like the frog in the frying pan - they inched the price up a little at a time until we noticed the grease bubbling around us. No more pay TV for this household.
 

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