Direct TV turn off date

westernrvparkowner wrote:
And just like doomsday cultists who keep predicting the world is going to end in 10 years (caution: political dig!), if he sticks with his two year prediction long enough, eventually he will be right.

And just like the religious cultists who keep predicting the tribulation, 2nd coming and end times (religious dig) they will be right.

gemsworld wrote:

timmac wrote:
Yep and with Space X Star link internet that will be online in less than a year you can get high speed internet world wide..

2 years and satellite/cable TV companies will roll over and die, don't buy expensive satellite equipment cause it soon will be junk...

:W

You keep telling us satellite TV will be dead in 2 years. I beg to differ.

Not everyone wants to watch TV off the internet...and not everything available on cable/satellite is available on the net.

And just like doomsday cultists who keep predicting the world is going to end in 10 years (caution: political dig!), if he sticks with his two year prediction long enough, eventually he will be right.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
There is so much bad info here that I could not wade through it all. If someone already gave the correct information, good for you, I will just repeat the correct information.
1) DTV is not doing ANYTHING to RV's or RVers.
2) DTV IS dropping SD service but you will still be able to pick up DTV with a dome and and HD receiver with your existing dome.
3) Once this happens (likely early 2020) you WILL be able to receive DTV in HD with a dome (but you need an HD receiver)
4) Your dome will work just as it always has and will still receive only programming broadcast on the 101 satellite and that reception will be in HD.
5) While you will be able to receive HD with your dome, no one currently knows which channels will be broadcast from that 1 satellite.
6) You can always get an HDMI to RCA or Coax adapter so you could receive the programming in HD and use adapters to watch the programming in SD on an SD TV so the expenses would be very limited.
7) Anyone concerned about this today is wasting time and effort. When it does happen, it will only take a couple of days to get a new receiver or shut off DTV. The choice is yours!

Very good info. I have a couple of questions
1. MOST if not all domes will only lock into the Direct 101 Sat. Since Direct broadcasts almost all there SD programming on that Sat, it was a good choice for Direct customers if they did not care about HD. So, once Direct drops SD, do you think they will slide some of their HD from the other Direct sats to 101? The reason I ask is, my research seems to be, Direct is NOT going to utilize the 101 sat as it is older and will be decommissioned. Is this true? Doug

Perhaps a new thread is in order. This is getting off topic and still sitting in Class A.

way2roll wrote:
I can get ANY show or movie available - for free

Tell us more.

way2roll wrote:
As far as recording - on demand is just that. No need to record something if it's available anytime you want. .

True, but I'm not sitting through commercials.

I have Netflix and Prime video at home, but I don't use them very often. I find movies I like on PPV on DTV. I use Youtube almost daily for science shorts, music, comedy skits and, my favorite vid: petting owls! That's too cute.

The last piece is the 'unlimited data.' I use my phone as a hotspot, all the time, but afaict I lose that. That ain't happenin.

2oldman wrote:
No, I almost never never have outages. Only torrential rain can do that, and that's extremely rare.

Can I stream CNN, Jeopardy (ABC), Id channel, MGM movies, Smithsonian and TNTHD? Can I record shows?

Yes, you can do all of that. recording might require an account like sling. We pay $25/mo for that. What sling doesn't offer you can find elsewhere. As far as recording - on demand is just that. No need to record something if it's available anytime you want.

On a firestick there are apps you can load that allow you access to literally anything- movies-tv - anything. It's open source programs that basically builds an app around web searches you'd do one-off. You can you tube how to do it. Granted not all of it is live. Sometimes content isn't available until 1-24 hours after it aired. That was a tough concept for me to get over. But I finally got over it. I mean if you record a show it's no longer live anymore right? And the added bonus, most of the time there are no commercials or you can ffd through them.

Streaming does sometimes require some poking around to find what you want. It's not packaged, but that's the point. I was tired of paying almost $100/month for cable only to have them almost double that after the introductory rate. I also had about 90% of the channels I was paying for that I never watched. Now I pay about $30/month and get what I want whenever I want it and pay nothing for channels I don't want. Add to that it's totally portable and easy.

No, I almost never never have outages. Only torrential rain can do that, and that's extremely rare.

Can I stream CNN, Jeopardy (ABC), Id channel, MGM movies, Smithsonian and TNTHD? Can I record shows?

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.

2oldman wrote:

gemsworld wrote:
Not everyone wants to watch TV off the internet...and not everything available on cable/satellite is available on the net.

And a lot of folks sure love their SD!

Yes it is. You have no idea what you are talking about. I can get ANY show or movie available - for free