Direct TV turn off date

2oldman wrote:

bgum wrote:
The day Direct TV drops SD is the day I switch to Dish TV.

And you think Dish will keep SD?

way2roll wrote:
Sat TV - especially in RV's - is cumbersome, requires line of sight, expensive equipment and plans and subject to outages.

A dish on a tripod is not cumbersome. Finding line of sight is not hard. I can handle $95. Outages? Never.

And it works everywhere. Yes, most places now have cell service, but do they have strong enough data service to support streaming?

A dish on a tripod is far more cumbersome than a stick with no wires I can carry in my pocket. Finding a line of sight is far more difficult than say - not having to do that at all. $95 is about double what you would pay for unlimited internet. I've had sat - PLENTY of outages so I think you may be kidding yourself. And yes, pretty much any place with cell service can support streaming.


But, if you haven't really tried it, you can't really knock it. There is a reason market share is dwindling fast for cable and sat over internet. Well actually a lot of reasons. There are reasons why cable and Sat companies are now offering ala carte' streaming tv. They know Sat tv is not a long bet.