F......... Comcast

[ragtopW]

I work for Dish out here in CO and have been with them long enough to pretty much know anyone who's been around with us for any length of time. PM me his name if you don't mind.

And you I don't consider the enemy.

You and "Santa" aren't on the enemy list with us either

This is the real bad guy for BOTH of us.

Back Back I say...

[El mojito]

my nephew is one of the people that helped start Dish networks

That's cool for him. Is he still in Colorado?

Yes his Name is Wiley Reed aka Reedman

[MG]

DirectTV are a bunch of NFL monopolizing bastards!!! Cancel them!!! Don't sign up for them!!! Make them go bankrupt so I can get the NFL package on Digital Cable!!!

Or just get DirecTV. You can sign up, get 4 receivers, free Sunday Ticket, and have it added in with your Verizon service. (Can you tell I work for the agency that advertises Verizon?)

AWESOME!!! And then when I want to switch back and forth between games I can look at a screen that says "Searching for signal" for 10 seconds before the picture comes up... Um... No thanks!
PS - Verizon blows too.. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW BIT<H??!!

i never had that problem w/ directv.......directv was smart enough to present the NFL package to the NFL and protected themselves........cable has been out there a lot longer and had there chance!!

Sorry Tom, but you're wrong on this one. When Sunday ticket first came about 99% of the country didn't have digital cable. Without the added bandwith that digital provides you couldn't carry that much programming. Directv knew this would happen and was smart enough to lock up the package for a gazillion years so they could sell it as something that cable doesn't offer. I have no idea when the contract expires but I'm pretty sure when it does it will no longer be a DTV exclusive deal.

Last fall, DirectTV agreed to pay $3.5 billion over four years to retain exclusive control of the NFL Sunday Ticket through 2010.


Business Week article regarding NFL TV rights:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnf ... _db011.htm

[sonofabeach]

I've had comcast for quite some time and have no problems, both online and their cable.
My biggest problem when I had a dish?...that frigging five second delay when you change the channel..that drove me nuts.

[Coconuts]

I don't have Comcast, because of my location (in the city with an apartment facing due north with close proximity to trees and other buildings) and IN utilities, I'm stuck with BrightHouse (used to be TimeWarner, I think they just renamed the subsidiary). I hate them. My parents get better reception from their dish in bad weather than I do with cable and have almost all of the premium channels- and they're paying less than I am.

And I have that 5 second delay with digital cable...