DTV sucks

[erkishhorde]

Anyone else with me? I get lots of extra channels that I never care to watch but the primary network stations that I want to watch come in shitty or don't come in at all.  Anyone have experience with improving signal? I know your converter box can be really important and I think we have a pretty decent one. What about antennae? Has anybody upgraded to the new fancy antennae? If so, was it worth it?

[Popeye the Sailor]

Anyone else with me? I get lots of extra channels that I never care to watch but the primary network stations that I want to watch come in shitty or don't come in at all.  Anyone have experience with improving signal?

We just launched another satellite. Give it another 3 weeks and it should be better 

[Grampa]

I want a buffet style cable tv selection.  I dont need 57 spanish channels, 87 religious channels, and 56 shopping channels

[Speeddog]

We just launched another satellite. Give it another 3 weeks and it should be better 

What does it take 3 weeks to do?

Satellite's in orbit already, isn't it?

[Popeye the Sailor]

What does it take 3 weeks to do?

Satellite's in orbit already, isn't it?

You can't rev it up until the break in period is over 




Snark aside, I'm not allowed to say.

[Speeddog]

You can't rev it up until the break in period is over 

Snark aside, I'm not allowed to say.

How about if I ask questions, and you can  for yes and  for no.

[TAftonomos]

read the shit I just posted.  Weird, I never saw this DTV thread.

make the beast with two backs YOU DTV!

[Scottish]

DTV is the worst company I've dealt with, if I ran a business like that I would be out of business in 2 weeks.

They have NO appreciation of customer service.

[hbliam]

NO DTV experiance but I did have DISH. It sucked. If the dish gets moved you pay for them to come adjust it. If it rains hard enough you have no TV. That's when you need TV! If you cancel you have to crawl up there to get the parts down and mail them back. Cable was better but I have FIOS now and it kicks all their asses. 

[Speedbag]

I want a buffet style cable tv selection.  I dont need 57 spanish channels, 87 religious channels, and 56 shopping channels

+1

I only watch about a dozen or so of what I pay for. 

[erkishhorde]

Oh, I didn't mean Direct TV. I talking about the new (since June  ) digital TV signal. I can't even get (LA area channels) 7, 11, 13 and those are major networks.   All the new series are starting and I can't even see the premiers w/o watching them online.

[NAKID]

On one of the NBC HD channels (I have two each of CBS, NBC and FOX for some reason) always screws up and gets pixelated. The cable company says it's a problem with the broadcast, not with them. If you DVR a show on that channel it will periodically fast forward for no reason, freeze, skip entire scenes, etc.

[Randimus Maximus]

I have had DirecTV for years.  The transition to Digital was a non-issue for me.

[Buckethead]

What does it take 3 weeks to do?

Satellite's in orbit already, isn't it?

My guess?

1) Achieve geosynchronous orbit.

2) Solar-charge batteries to acceptable voltage levels.

3) Establish communications with ground station.

4) Calibrate for parallax and atmospheric distortion.

5) Upload latest foil-hat bypass software.

6) Begin mind-control broadcasts.

[Speeddog]

OK, I can go for that.