moving to Dish from Direct

I believe as long as we don't mention his name 3 times (Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse......) he may stay away and stream to his hearts content.

I have been tempted to move away from DTV a number of times over the years just for the savings of creating a new DISH account. However, every time, it comes down to having to deal with the DISH E/W satellite clusters and not having E/W DNS like I do with DTV.
I am surprised more folks don't move to DISH if you are a part timers or a single receiver user. I am neither so it's just not a good option for me.

I cannot find a complete list of the channels of what we would get on any of the Dish offers.
It has got to the point where Direct has more advertising stations than real programs.

horseylady wrote:
Thank you everyone!!! Just got off a very long phone call with Dish and got everything set up. They all spoke unbroken English and I had no problem understanding or being understood. ......::

I helped a non tech friend set up his Dish system a few years ago. Had to call Dish for help. Dish lady had no detectable accent. Mid west maybe, I thought. While waiting for receiver and Tailgater to go thru a reset, and having a casual conversation, I ask where she was located. In the Philippines she said. :E Dont think she was a native. But I have never got anyone there I had any problem understanding.

Horsedoc wrote:
I cannot find a complete list of the channels of what we would get on any of the Dish offers.
It has got to the point where Direct has more advertising stations than real programs.

Here you go. In alphabetical order.

https://godish.com/package-comparison/

Horsedoc wrote:
I cannot find a complete list of the channels of what we would get on any of the Dish offers.
It has got to the point where Direct has more advertising stations than real programs.

So does DISH. It's a large source of income for both (and Cable and OTA TV, too!)

Yep Bill! All about the bucks! ;)

I just went through basically the same thing. We have had Direct for 30+ years, essentially from when they started. We got the notice that we had to update to HD receivers because they were no longer broadcasting in SD. Not a big problem, or so I thought. We have a receiver in our KS house, one in our TX house and one in the RV (which is used sporadically). Every tech I talked to gave me a different on whether we could have two permanent locations, what it would cost, and what programming we could get. They had a hard time believing we don't record stuff, don't game, don't need premium movie channels, etc.
But after several hours on the phone with them and with Dish, we are making the switch to Dish. We will see how it goes. But I like the idea of having the RV receiver on or off as we need it for $7 per month.

I don't think I posted this but we did change to Dish and it's great. We have two receivers in the house, a Hopper 3 and a Joey, and one Walley in the motorhome on a G3 satellite. They combined it all and we pay $7/month for the Walley. The Dish tech went out to motorhome and made sure it all worked properly! WE love the dish format and, so far, it's great. The tech was great and took his time as needed, but worked fast--if that makes any sense. Plus everyone we spoke with at Dish spoke English that we could understand.

This comes after five days of trying to get our Directv off vacation hold, which we do every year. After many, many hours on the phone they sent a tech who was clueless. Then, my husband was on the phone with DTV and the tech was on the phone with someone in his department. I think they knew what to do but didn't want to spend the time. Then, we were on the phone for another five hours with DTV. When my husband was told they needed another 72 hours to figure it out, he cancelled.