[CBFF] Article: NFL and Direct TV

[Kenny Claxton]

Macomb, IL? WIU alum myself.


There will be an outage or 2 due to storms, but they don't last long
(longest in 5 years was 15 minutes). The 10 years I had cable, I could
count on an outage every month. Including missing an AFC championship.
The satallite outage is nothing like the cable industry potrays it.

My Directv package is currently cheaper than what my neighbor pays for
cable, but it depends on each locality.


Trust me the NFL Network and NFL Sunday ticket are well worth it.


Kenny

On 8/22/06, Jim Ferolie <ferolie at charter.net> wrote:
> I just spent an inordinate amount of time breaking down the options (because
> I'm really irritated with this NFL Network deal going on here and the
> temporary unavailability of DVR) and found that satellite is not cheaper
> than cable here. In Macomb it was almost identical, as well, and in
> Davenport satellite was more expensive (both companies), even right after
> Mediacom raised its rates (that being the reason I called).
>
> It's not exactly apples to apples. With three TVs and HBO but no DVR, cable
> is cheaper here by a couple of bucks and includes Cinemax (not that I really
> care). Satellite includes a few more stupid channels that I don't care
> about, either, though the option of Fox Sports Arizona ($12 a month for
> sports pack) really appeals to me. With DVR the cable gets more expensive.
> With cable modem obviously you save by having cable TV.
>
> As far as his cost analysis, he was talking about total, as in the whole
> four months. Does it really matter how payments are structured?
>
> That leaves a serious question here:
> I know little about how the service is with satellite, but my wife says her
> mother's Dish Network and dad's DirecTV both have problems with storms, even
> just heavy rains or snows sometimes. How true is this? Under my three
> different cable companies I can remember about three outages over the past
> three years, the longest being about four hours (though it did cause some
> major problems as it was during American Idol).
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenny Claxton" <kenny.claxton at gmail.com>
>
>
> > Satellite is generally cheaper than cable and more reliable. He also
> > took the most expensive oiption of the NFL Ticket and failed to
> > mention that payments are broken up into 4. 15 million subscibers is
> > nothing to sneeze at.
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > On 8/22/06, Ryan Dietzenbach <ryandietzenbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I think he's a little off.  I'm not a DirectTV guy (DISH subscriber
> >> here) but the dish services are generally no more expensive (if not
> >> cheaper) than digital cable.  Furthermore, they can mount it on
> >> basically any house or in a yard.
> >>
> >> Ryan
>
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