Direct TV vs. Dish?

Question

Which is better for price, HDTV and reception? I have a lot of trees around my house and was wondering about lease fees as well.

Answer 1

Both Direct and Dish provides equal service. Both services require a clear line to there satellite. Depending upon where you live, that direction will vary some. From the Dallas area, Direct satellites dishes are lined up at 182 Degrees. Dish dishes are lined up at 204 degrees, so they both face south to a greater degree. Price wise, they both are with a few dollars of each other and if you are a new customer, you can get service for as little as $29.99. That price can go as high as $105 for the everything packages which include local and all the movie channels.

As to service interuptions, yes they can occur, but not as often as cable and for sure they do not last as long. When you loose satellite service it is usuall a storm cloud between you and the satellite. Just so happens that a rain drop is the same size (wave lenght) of the frequency used by the satellite, thus the rain distortes (absorbes) the signal. When the cloud moves or drops it rain, the signal returns.

Personally I have Dish and could not be happier, however I have friends with Direct and they say the same thing.

As to Dish having 50 satellites, that is a slight overstatement, They do have over 10 in service.

Answer 2

I have had both. The prices are relativly close with each other. With dish you have MUCH better reception. Dish network has 50 satelites in the sky that you can recieve a signal from when direct only has 2 satelites. Dish has 2 reciever on you satelite on your house when direct only has 1. Ever since I have switched to dish I have never lost my signal. I am not sure about HDTV though I am sure the picture quailty is the same for both.Over all I would definitally go with Dish

Answer 3

if you are looking for the system with the best deal and most hd channels than dish network is the way to go. as a first time customer you get your equiptment for almost nothing. just make sure you know how many rooms you want tvs in. as it cost lots extra to add recievers at a latter date. im an installer who sub contracts out of radio shack. go seee them and trhey can help you decide what best fits your needs now and in the future. if there is any doubt as to weather you have a clear view of the satalites, it no big deal to have a site survey done, to see if it will work at your home.another thing to consider is that a phone line needs to connected to each reciever or dish will charge you an extra $5.00 a month per reciever.

Answer 4

perhaps it quite is gonna be an analogous. it particularly relies upon how your apartment is placed. in case you in basic terms desire some thing slightly larger to place in the antenna pass get an iron pipe a bag of concrete and a bucket out of your closest homestead depot and combine up the concrete, put in the bucket and positioned the iron pipe in there permit it dry and we could wish it works. they the two could positioned in the antenna and function a clean section to acquire the satellite tv for pc sign. the antenna must be pointed to the south. solid luck! and in the event that they make it artwork, you have made the terrific determination. dish is so lots greater appropriate in value and channels provided for a greater appropriate value than Direct television. i had dish for variety of two years.

Answer 5

It means DirectTV vs DishNetwork, two different satallite tv companies.

I had Dtv for awhile, but not HD, so I'm not sure about that. I can tell you DTV faces S S/W so if your trees block that view it may not work for you.

Answer 6

DirectTV does use a dish. So not sure of the question.

Cheers!

Answer 7

I have dish network and it's very good

Answer 8

Directv is awesome!!!