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I will no longer be in reach of cable and will have to get a satellite dish hooked up. I'm hoping to hear some good and bad things about differnet services. I'm not sure which one to go with. Any advice would be great guys, thanks.

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I have Direct TV and I love it. The picture and sound quality are excellent. One of the features I love about it is the on-line account access. I decided last winter that I wanted to get HBO. I went online in to my account ordered it and by the time I walked from the computer into the living room HBO was on!

The only other thing I would like to have with it is Tivo. The digital recording would be nice to have and not have to fumble around with tapes.

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I still have c-band and won't give it up till Dish and Direct TV changes their policy to purchase only the channels you want.

If you watch OLN its only available on Direct TV.

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When i moved i wasn't able to get the locals anymore (i had the same view as ST for 12 years) via antenna, so ended up having to get satellite. I ended up getting Dish since they had the cheapest minimum package available. 31.99 including local channels. If you want "sunday ticket" its only available from Direct too. So far so good, no problems the last couple days with the snow, and online you can order services, pay your bill, order individual movies.

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I like Direct TV more than Dish Network for the same 2 reasons already mentioned. 1) They have exlusive rights to the Sunday ticket. 2) Dish Network recently dropped OLN. If you're a NHL fan with Dish Network, you're SOL, unless you pay for that NHL package (if they have it.) Also, Direct TV has XM radio now. I should mention that I had Dish Network for 2 years before switching to Direct TV, so I have had experience with both.

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I still have c-band and won't give it up till Dish and Direct TV changes their policy to purchase only the channels you want.

That sure would be nice, but probably won't be happening for a while. There's a huge court battle going on- the government wants to force service providers to offer 'a la carte' cable. The only downside would be that a lot of the smaller, more niche channels would probably be shut down due to low numbers of viewers and major losses in ad revenue. As it stands there are only a few major cable channels that support the rest. Its kind of a tough situation, but it would be nice to see some sort of compromise. As much as I love rap music, I could still enjoy cable without BET blush.gif

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