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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by HRK:
Going to have to look into Dish, DTV has gotten too expensive, they have a 3 year lock in on price, $79, $99 and $109 plans and you get a $100 visa card.

Need to see what the extra fees, DVR, and cost for receivers are to really compare.

If you have good high speed internet, you don’t even need a dish anymore. YouTubeTV just requires an internet connection and a smart TV or some other device like a Roku and does everything a dish does.

Internet TV is the future

Sounds good, have 3 Smart and 3 not so smart that have Firesticks on them, may have to check it out.

Dish for the mid level package one DVR, 3 wireless joeys is $150 up front and $125 a month, frigging have to go mid level to get two channels we watch, so $20 more a month. Saves $20 over DTV, think I'll call DTVv and tell them I'm moving to Dish with the three year price lock and see what I can get out of them...

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I, too, am thinking about getting rid of DirecTV for Dish. DTV keeps raising the price every year even though it's already priced through the roof, and they're owned by AT&T.

Long story short, we were with DISH. They dropped a lot of local sports packages (in my case MASN) so we switched to DirectTV.

Now a few years on we are dropping DirectTV on Feb. 20th. We just do not use it anymore. We will be switching to Youtube TV for $65 a month. It has all the channels that we watch and is half what we were paying DirectTV. The fact that Youtube TV has a DVR function was the selling point for the wife.

Why bother with Dish? You have the internet and can access streaming services including Cable-like offerings that give you channels available on cable tv.

YouTube TV .. look into it! It's a game changer.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Why bother with Dish? You have the internet and can access streaming services including Cable-like offerings that give you channels available on cable tv.

Not the OP but I have DirecTV so the thread is relevant to me.

I've played with streaming services a couple of times while staying in a Condo on vacation for a couple of weeks and there's no way I'd give up Satellite TV for streaming.

We stream everything now. We ditched cable about a year ago and do not miss it.

Our cost for subscriptions is about half what we paid for cable service. So it isn't totally free, but we get stuff we want and aren't paying for stuff we don't.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Why bother with Dish? You have the internet and can access streaming services including Cable-like offerings that give you channels available on cable tv.

Not the OP but I have DirecTV so the thread is relevant to me.

I've played with streaming services a couple of times while staying in a Condo on vacation for a couple of weeks and there's no way I'd give up Satellite TV for streaming.

To each his own so I'm not out to change your mind; but I do want to understand it.

What do you get from Dish that you don't get from a streaming service like YouTube TV or other premium streaming services that mimic cable tv? I have YouTube TV because it's like the AOL of streaming services - everything you can possibly want and more (of course, you would pay beyond the basic $70 price but that basic is really more like premium cable.

Truth be told, I also have other premium services that I have for free for a 12 month period like Paramount Plus, Apple Plus. But I often just watch regular YouTube, not even YouTube TV.

Dumped Dish a year ago as they raised their prices as well. The main thing was the base package, that I never watch, increased. Between the DVR and boxes and that base bullshit package it was like $50 a month. I just wanted the movie channels only, and no commercial content. Well movie channels and local channels I guess. I kept it at $70-85 for a decade then when they raised that base package, it was just over $100 a month and that’s when I said enough.

I run gig fiber with cable modem backup, IE having 2 ISP’s, run to a dual WAN router. I’d rather have backup internet than satellite, overpriced, service. Converting to streaming was, well a major change. But I spend $30 a month now and I have all the movie channels. HBO, STRZ, SHO, and MGM+. I hooked up an OTA for locals. Until cable/satellite allows a la carte, fuck them. I loathe paying all that money per year for a bunch of stuff I never watch.