I'm kind of picky it's probably my OCD.lol I already have coaxil cables going to each room in my house where I have t.v. sets. I don't really won't the service man going all up under my house, through the closets and such. Can he simply install my Dish and run the cable to my junction in my basement and hook up the receivers to the cables that are already in the rooms where I have my t.v.'s or will he have to run all new coaxil cables to every room in my house. I would rather him not. Just don't won't to have a big mess in my basement. I have 3 t.v.s I want hooked up to dish network. Also, will I have a box for each t.v.? How does the installation of the boxes work?

If you are a sports fan that no longer lives near your favorite Baseball or football teams city, DirecTV has an exclusive on every football and most every baseball game that isn't nationally broadcast. Plus even the baseball, besides the football is now available in HD. I would think there was some glitch in installation if SD quality was better in DISH than Directv. It would make more sense if there might be a difference in HD quality, as it takes up far more bandwidth. I've had both systems and the only thing I liked better about DISH was their superior PVR. I hear DirecTv is making a new one so maybe they will be comparable. Too bad both companies are so greedy that won't let TIVO into their market anymore. MY SD Sony SAT-60 TIVO still kicks butt in usability over any other. Greg

I've had Dish Network for 6.5 years. Not really any complaints. Only have one receiver. The price does seem to go up. Started out paying $23 per month (was 60 channels back then) and now have maybe 100 channels plus local channels (I added the local channels which is maybe $6 extra) and it is $40 month which isn't bad. cheaper than cable. It does go out in storms but I have never had an outage that lasted more than an hour. Normally its just a few minutes and it comes back on. I dont' have Starz or HBO or anything like that. Installation was free (no start up costs at all) and I own my receiver now. Only thing I had to pay to replace was the remote (button went bad last year) and that was $30. I've never had Direct Tv so I can't compare the two but from viewing their prices online, they seem to be more expensive than Dish and also have higher cancellation fees if that is a concern.

Update. I thought I had this settled, but... After a couple of calls to our cable company (Charter), hinting that I would defect to satellite TV, and no offer of talking to a supervisor (and I did ask) I called a 3rd time. (I also made a post on their Facebook page) They put me in touch with the retention department right away. One of our major concerns is that we want to keep our multi-room DVR, rather than have 2 separate DVRs that we have to program. The system is working for us, and we would like to keep it as is. So the retention agent and I came to an agreement on price with us keeping the equipment that we have. The only thing that needed to change was our modem, which she said was outdated. I agreed with that, because we have had the modem for a long time. So today the technician came out to install the modem. The install went okay and he left. About 5 minutes later the tech knocked on the door. He said that he was unable to close out our job and get to his next job because he was supposed to install 2 new DVRs! I called the cable company, and they said that there was no way that we could have the pricing that we were offered with our current equipment. I asked for a supervisor who told me the same thing. After some back and forth I told her that she could figure something out and get back to me tomorrow. Meanwhile the poor tech is still waiting to get to his next appointment. The representative on the phone said that they had "cleared" our job and he could get on to the next, so I told him. Another 5 minutes later he was knocking on the door again. The job was not cleared, and he wanted me to talk to his boss. The tech's boss started to say that they needed to install the new equipment. I say, no - we are done now. At that point the tech wanted to come in and take out the new modem and give us back the old one. I said sorry, but nothing else is happening here today. I felt bad, because it wasn't his fault, but at that point I was DONE (or so I thought) About 10 minutes later the internet went out! I thought that they had cut us off, but after about an hour with a tech on the phone we got it working. I am so not looking forward to dealing with this tomorrow!