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pat sublett

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Dumped Dish today. I don't watch more than 2 or 3 of the 200 + channels on Dish and Fox is one of them. They have had plenty of time to resolve the issue so I cancelled Dish today and sighed for Direct. I hate to sigh a contract but enough is enough. My next move is going to be a rinky- dink antenna.
 
I've only had an antenna since I got out of college. It was part of room & board there but since then I refuse to pay for television.
 
we've been talking about looking at alternatives to DirectTV. A huge number of the channels are showing reruns of the same show, back to back, every night. Most nights I am hunting to find something to watch. Between Red Box, things I own, and possibly some internet sources for the reruns I want to watch...may be in the future I won't be paying as much.
 
That's gonna depend on the television and location I guess. We have a decent antenna. The television in the bedroom gets 47 channels off it. We got a new flat screen for the living room,hooked up to the same antenna,it gets 3,channel 14-1,14-2 and 14-3. All PBS. Not much sense even having a TV if that was all we got. We've been with Direct since 97. Just upgraded to HD.
 
We have cable tv in town but really only got it because it was cheaper to get a "bundle" with the phone and internet. We watch Netflix more often than cable.
 
Apparently, you do not have DSL or Fiber to the Home (FTTH). work for a telecommunications consulting and engineering firm, and design Fiber To The Home. The latest trend. Work from home and Have FTTH, which the Telephone company also offers TV over the FTTH along with internet and phone. Works wonderful. no loss of signal due to clouds. Unless you local carrier is Ma Bell or the other large telephone companies like(century link) If they are a local independent company, suggest they go FTTH. Have them call FARR Technologies.com. We can design and build FTTH. Just depends on what the owners want if they are small and independent or part of the large companies. If large companies, can almost guarantee that they will not overbuild to FTTH
 
Seeing that the IP is Fort Worth TX. Guessing It is Ma Bell or Century link. Unfortunately, your only hope is satellite nil they are willing to upgrade to FTTH
 
The biggest source of entertainment for my Wife and me is T.V. We have dish and for the most part are satisfied. One thing that really chaps my backside is the fact that we pay so much for advertising. The have money coming from both ends of the spectrum, and to me that's not right.
 
Where I live we get 3 maybe four channels. Without Sat or Cable. If it rains. Go read a book or find something to do. Because you are not watching TV.
 
Do you have an antenna ampifier? That helps to drive the signal to the TV sets.

Our Samsung in the bedroom pulls in more stations on antenna than our Phillips.

How far is the signal travelling to through cable to the living room set? Is a new cable or just the old 2-wire that was used on the old antennas? Have you checked all the connections?

There are things that can be done to improve reception - read the manual for the TV set in the living room regarding weak channels.

We get 71 stations on the Phillips; block out about 30 of the stations that we don't want.
 
The Ohio State/ Oregon game was only on ESPN last night. Some I know can't get ESPN, got to think they do that on purpose to get more people to sign up.
 
We had DirectTV for about 10 years. Our kids (and perhaps I was too....) were addicted to mindless shows. My youngest son would watch some stupid Disney show, that had an average audience age of about 7, and when the show was over he would watch the same, identical show again. The whole time he watched the shows, he would sit there with his mouth open like he was trying to catch flies. After our bill went up to about $80 a month, with no premium channels, we dumped out satellite TV.
Fast forward a few years and our daughter is getting a free ride to a four year school for computer science. (Last semester her easiest class was Calculus 3) My oldest son is getting a free ride at another four-year school for electrical engineering. My other kid is in high school yet, but will probably be going into a business major at yet another college.
Why did they do well enough to get major scholarships? Probably because we dumped the dish. Yea, I still miss some sports shows, especially ESPN. But I don't miss for having 200 channels and nothing is on.
 
I have had Dish Network since they first started and offered it here. Dixie has Netflix. When she watches movies I do something else. She can set up half the night watching make believe crap that puts me to sleep. I am a news junkie and some times I wish it was make believe though.
 
We have a booster yes. I'm wondering if the booster in the bedroom is better somehow. It's newer. I should have stopped at Radio Shack the other day when I was near there,and got a new one. It's all coax cable. It comes down the pole to a splitter then one cable runs in to the bedroom,then the other cable is longer and goes back up over the roof and in to the living room. I'd think if the cable or connections weren't good,we wouldn't get anything at all.
 
jeez I thought $100 was bad for a phone that rarely gets used(we both have cell phones), unlimited internet, and 40 cable channels.
 
"The whole time he watched the shows, he would sit there with his mouth open like he was trying to catch flies." I know grown men that watch fox news that are like that. LOL No one can get along with any of them now. Guess it's withdrawals. LOL

Sorry I couldn't help that.
 
Expect Dish to keep calling you back for the next few weeks. However, instead of someone reading from a script with a heavy accent as you've become accustomed to, they will be pleasant folks with American accents. When they called me, I always asked them "where were YOU when I was trying to get my service fixed?" They usually tried to tell me that Dish had changed and I wouldn't get the same runaround in the future. Eventually I tired of their calls and told them to not call again. They haven't.
 
I'm going to drop Direct in the Spring and go with Free TV and Netflix..I have had my fill of it..
 
Just went to the Charter Communication office today with all my TV boxes in hand. Told them I could no longer afford the $170 a month bill for TV and internet.

Low and behold they can fix that all of a sudden.
Walked out with 60 meg internet and cable TV on 3 sets for $88 a month for 12 months with no contract.
 

I just kicked Dish out today also. It is unbelievable that Dish and Fox cannot get together on this in several weeks of waiting. Took 20 minutes waiting "in line" on the phone before getting to someone that could actually cancel the stuff. I think they wanted me to get aggravated with a long wait time and just give up. :evil:
 
Only paid for TV once in my adult life. Moved in with a girlfriend and we got a dish contract for a year. At the end of 12 months we easily agreed it wasn't worth the $70 a month.

99% of TV is a waste.

Ben
 
I just looked into Netflix. Currently have Dish, was looking for Fox but didn't find it on Netflix. Do you need a cable from a PC to the HDTV for Netflix?

Gunny, in Iowa
 
I have one of those frizbee antennas with a booster. going into a Radio Shack Booster splitter. It splits one signal into 4 or 5. It goes to 4 TVs and one DVR, all get the same channels. Where I'm at I get 5,6,10,12,17,23,25,41,43,47,53,64,66 and all their side channels.
 
That was kinda dumb wasn't it?

Why the heck are you blaming Dish when Fox is trying to hike the rates by a factor of 3?

Geeze Man!
 
I've had Dish for over 12 years. A couple of times I tried to talk to Direct and they were $20-30 a month higher than Dish for the programing that I wanted. This is all a game, the same thing happened with CNN a couple of months ago. The only difference is that FOX has the clout because of more viewers. I've thought about dropping pay TV all together but the only thing I can get off an antenna is ABC and they turn my stomach. I hate paying for commercials, I may just go back to radio.
 
"99% of TV is a waste"

Agreed, and the other 1% ain't worth watching.

We've quit watching the "news" entirely, and I thought I was alone, but I've talked to several people lately who've also quit. I can read, and I can form my own opinions from what I read - I don't need some phony telling me what to think and believe.
 
Yeah, but Dick, the original poster was upset about losing fox. I don't think you can get fox on a regular antenna - at least not where I live, but then we just barely get daylight out here.
 
Hmm....it kinds reminded me of how people watch NBC or MSNBC. Pretty sure Fox News has a MUCH larger viewership than NBC.
 
(quoted from post at 15:16:24 01/13/15) Dumped Dish today. I don't watch more than 2 or 3 of the 200 + channels on Dish and Fox is one of them. They have had plenty of time to resolve the issue so I cancelled Dish today and sighed for Direct. I hate to sigh a contract but enough is enough. My next move is going to be a rinky- dink antenna.
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I've had both, I felt Direct TV is a little better, we had a equipment failure, they replaced it in 1 day. Dish doesn't seem to have much support, we had the same kind of failure with them, it took over a week to sort out.

By the way, they have Fox, MSNBC, CNN. I like Cramer on MSNBC and the financial stuff they have. A low key alternative is the Bloomberg financial channel, very informative. I watch Fox occasionally, but for financial stuff, I prefer the other channels. IMHO, the fox financial is too political.
 
Hmm, I should have been more specific. I only have the netflix via dvd's in the mail.

I have in-laws that have the streaming netflix and it does work very well. There was a box on the tv and IIRC it used the home internet router. i.e. internet over cable and then home wi-fi network.
I'm fairly sure that's how it was set up but not 100%
 
I dumped pay TV a long time ago, and haven't missed it yet. If you really want Fox news, it comes across our local AM station. I get my local news (when I bother) off an indoor antenna and a converter box. I mostly watch whatever interests me on Netflix. $7.99 a month and no limits. Also have FIOS courtesy of Verizon, which allows me to stream HD programming through my computer. I sure don't miss a big bill for 200 channels and nothing to watch, loaded with commercials that get more annoying with each passing day. I'd rather be outside anyways.
 
That's what I've got,one of those round ones. I think the problem is the booster on the one TV.
 
a signal amplifier is designed to boost the line signal from the antenna to the tv. it cannot boost the signal from a station to the antenna. that would be a measure of the kilowatt output of the station. however, if you have a long run of RG6 from your antenna to the tv, a signal booster will clarify the signal that your antenna picks up. the booster cannot make the antenna work better.
 
We don't own a television. I wonder what I would hook that dish to, the microwave? And would it only get cooking shows?
 
I dumped Direct tv about a year ago and hooked up a antennae and get OTA channels for free. I do miss some of the stuff we used to get such as ESPN (I live in Oregon and had to go to the neighbors to watch the Oregon/Ohio championship game) and the grandkids miss Cartoon network. We also have a cheap subscription to Netflix for unlimited movies.
I had recently heard that Dish was coming out with a no-contract internet plan that you get 20 channels for $20. This includes ESPN, cartoon network, CNN and others. May look into this. It's call Dish Fling, I believe.
 
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