Sorry I haven't been posting lately, but I just got Direct TV, love it! We live in Las Vegas and the local cable company is COX. COX has been ok, not much choice in TV viewing, in fact it rather sucked, but what was the choice 5 Network channels? So we suffered as year by year they got rid of my favorite channels. One year COX got rid of Oxygen. Ok, I could live with that although I wasn't happy. The following year they got rid of TV Guide. Getting rid of TV Guide, I was outraged! How was one supposed to know what was on the tube? Sure I could buy the Sunday paper or check the Internet, but that is inconvenient. I was angry, but begrudgingly had to live with it. Or did I? Recently COX decided to pull the plug on Hallmark. That was the last straw! What no Little House on the Prairie, no Sarah Plain and Tall, no Skylark, no Hallmark movies, no corny Christmas movies with Steve Guttenberg? That was the last straw! That weekend, we decided to make the switch. It was hard, I didn't know who to go with, Dish or Direct? I knew some people had Direct, we had it at work, so I started looking online. I decided on Direct thinking mistakenly that they don't have to drill a big dishy contraption thingy on my house, WRONG! My girlfriend said the day before, "uh, ya they do, how else are they supposed to satellite the channels to you, dud!" So I was wrong. Came home that day and it wasn't so bad, the dish being on the side of the house. Bottom line, 250 something channels and loving it! And 3 months of free movie channels so we have something like 300+ channels. And the DVR-so easy! Now I'll never have an excuse to miss my reality shows! And I'm loving my 9 favorite channels listing! In the end, I'll be paying around $15.00 more a month (with all kinds of online rebates which will lower your payments for the first 13 months), but it will be worth it. I have my Oxygen, TV Guide, Hallmark and OWN! One catch however, we have 3 TV's. I got 3 receivers with one being HD DVR. When I realized the lease price was the same on all three, I called Direct and asked them how could I get the non-dvr hd receivers to HD DVR's for the other TV's, they said that I could either pay full price for the DVR, a whopping $500.00, or pay an up front lease price of $200.00+, OUCH! Oh well, at least I have the HD one on my set. My daughter and husband will have to make do, although my daughter said, that HD looks so much better! My TV!
Well, I gotta go, I have some channel surfing to do!
