Dish or Direct TV?

gafidler wrote:
Dish was a better deal for me than direct. If you are traveling less than 200 miles from home you get locals without doing anything over 200 miles you call and they change the locals for you. I use the same receiver at home and in the RV, I do use 2 different satellite dishes.

I've had both and prefer Direct TV, but again, guess it has to do with choice..I do almost all my camping in the mountains and Direct TV, at one time had to be aimed higher into the sky to get a signal, and this helped get over some mountains and trees; again, back when I had Dish, it aimed lower and could be a bear to get reception when in some mountainous areas.

As far as traveling less than 200 miles and getting locals, I live in Asheville NC and have camped in Pence Springs WV and still gotten all my locals and also to Myrtle Beach and still got my locals...only place I couldn't receive them was at the Outer Banks. I too use the same receiver(s) that I use at home. I was surprised when I could pick them up in WV, though Myrtle Beach was also a nice surprise.

I believe Direct TV offers a little more programming and more HD stations than Dish, (IF that means anything to anyone).

Direct TV is harder to find an auto antenna for high def and the auto SK-SWM3 for Direct TV is $3-400 more than the SK-1000 for Dish. However Direct TV genie are now wireless but the Dish Hopper/joey is still hardwire Coax. Beyond that, just a preference on programming.

Check the programing and decide. I just preferred dish programing. Not a whole lot of difference.Of course the first one that goes a la carte would get my business. For now they keep trying to tell me how important it is that I have all those junk programs.

Get the best deal that you can get and go with that one!!
If you go with Directv, I will refer you and we will both get $10/month off our bill for a total of $100.

Dish was a better deal for me than direct. If you are traveling less than 200 miles from home you get locals without doing anything over 200 miles you call and they change the locals for you. I use the same receiver at home and in the RV, I do use 2 different satellite dishes.

Personal choice.

You will get lots of opinions. It is like Ford or Chevy?

We have had Direct for the7 years of our full time travels and like it. Service is good, portable antenna is easy to point and find a signal on.

With both brands you will lose signal during heavy rain storms. Usually it is about 5 minutes for us. The thing that amazes me is that the service overall has less outages than our home with cable TV.

i see lots of both types out there. For us it was the programming choices on one vs. the other.

Flip a coin! Ford or Chevy? It's just a personal choice, both work. However check carefully on local channels, as Dish has been in a war again with some local feeds.

Chris

Dish has the option of no contract so you can stop or drop when you want.you own the equipment but they cover warrenty on it so no rv fees when you want it in the rv