So, I never had a technical problem with their service and think in some ways it is better than DirecTV, but I will never do business with them again.
Mega Ditto! I was told so many lies by the person that called to sign me up it was not even funny, Dish is facing a number of lawsuits for fraud and deceptive telemarketing practices. The sells pitch was for 250 channels four sets hooked up with a DVR for $55 a month and no billing for two months. 12 days after it was installed I got a bill for $101 do now! I have since got another bill for $180 and that is not from ordering Pay per view. The 250 channels was really 200 channels, I was also told I could pick the billing date; that was B.S. too.
We are 33 miles from the nearest Cable TV connection, with DTV coming, we will be going from 30 channels to just one with a sub channel and Fios is another year out, so we really don't have much of a choice. By the way the picture quality between our CBS DTV channel and Dish is startling with Dish lacking any detail.
Technically, Dish use to have a far better picture than DirecTv; During the Primestar days, I had all three Dish, Direct & Primestar and did ABC compassions; Primestar was the best by a long shot Dish second and DirecTv a distant third; they may have had few channels but the picture quality was more like digital Betacam. Today the Premium channels on Dish look worse than VHS EP with all the compression; it is so bad at times the eyes move out of sync with the rest of the face. The DVR is constantly downloading Pay per view on demand movies, I will never see and don't want, let alone pay them $5.00 to watch them. Dish forces you to take the downloads which hogs up disc space on the hard drive. They make the space by compressing the picture more and more, the digital artifacts are becoming very annoying and the hard drive spinning up for the download is also annoying; especially in the middle of the night with it in the bedroom.
After two months I would tell them where to stick but I'm tied to their ironclad two year contract, and you know how hard that is to break even after it's over. By the way; DirecTv is no easier to get rid of, after telling them I was done with their service, they just kept on billing me, that was nine years ago and they are still sending me bills. I sure miss my Bright House cable service; by far one of the best cable companies I ever had. 58 premium channels for $24 a month; 16 Showtimes, 14 HBO's, 12 Cinemax's, 12 Starz's 4 TMC's and 12 Encores, plus on demand versions and HD East-West of each. Only one outage in two years from a lighting strike, back up in twenty minutes.
A former employee of Dish network with an axe to grind perhaps?
If it was not for all the other outright deception Dish practices, I might blame it on a Employee.
Dish seems to just be a shady operation from top to bottom!
If after subscribing to Dish, you suddenly get flooded with telemarketing scam calls; Dish has sold you out too!
Keep an extra eye on your card statement, you might get a little surprise. The fact the telemarketer had so much of my personal information is very disturbing; Card # Exp date and the number on the back, plus home address and Bday. all info only Dish had. I guard my information; I give it out to no one unless I have to. Online, I use a disposable prepaid card.
Dish is also getting sued by Tivo, their DVD's could be ordered disabled very soon. What goes around comes around!
Steve
www.outlawradio.us
