Well, if you like the NFL, the choice is simple - DirecTV with the Sunday Ticket package. Every game in HD. Every game condensed down to 30 minutes on Monday. Highlights from every game sent directly to your DVR Monday morning.
If you don't care about football, then the choice is a bit more difficult.
I'd choose DirecTV (I've had them for nearly 10 years) because of their customer service - it's second to none. I can't imagine another company having as good of a customer service department. For example, we had a massive snow and ice storm a couple of years ago and the wind was just right to completely bury my dish (on the roof) for the first time ever. I called DirecTV, and they sent someone out to clear it off. The guy showed up and told me that a few people had fallen off of roofs lately so they're not allowed to go up on roofs anymore. So I called DirecTV back, they appologized and gave me a $200 credit on my account (and I didn't even ask for it!). That's nearly 3 months service for me. 24 hours later, enough snow had melted off that I was getting a signal again. Nice.
Another time, the Minnesota Wild were in the conference finals and they blacked the game out on ESPN for the first period due to a technical glitch (I think they believed the game was being shown locally). I called them up the next day to complain (couldnt' get through that night), and they gave me a $50 credit on my account... For missing one period of one hockey game. Nice!
Those are pretty much the only two issues I've ever had that I can think of, and they took care of me and then some. I'm a very satisfied customer.
I can't comment on the HD channels (I still have an MPEG-2 receiver -- have to figure out what I want to do about that, but I know I can get a free upgrade if I call and ask).
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Well, if you like the NFL, the choice is simple - DirecTV with the Sunday Ticket package. Every game in HD. Every game condensed down to 30 minutes on Monday. Highlights from every game sent directly to your DVR Monday morning.
If you don't care about football, then the choice is a bit more difficult.
I'd choose DirecTV (I've had them for nearly 10 years) because of their customer service - it's second to none. I can't imagine another company having as good of a customer service department. For example, we had a massive snow and ice storm a couple of years ago and the wind was just right to completely bury my dish (on the roof) for the first time ever. I called DirecTV, and they sent someone out to clear it off. The guy showed up and told me that a few people had fallen off of roofs lately so they're not allowed to go up on roofs anymore. So I called DirecTV back, they appologized and gave me a $200 credit on my account (and I didn't even ask for it!). That's nearly 3 months service for me. 24 hours later, enough snow had melted off that I was getting a signal again. Nice.
Another time, the Minnesota Wild were in the conference finals and they blacked the game out on ESPN for the first period due to a technical glitch (I think they believed the game was being shown locally). I called them up the next day to complain (couldnt' get through that night), and they gave me a $50 credit on my account... For missing one period of one hockey game. Nice!
Those are pretty much the only two issues I've ever had that I can think of, and they took care of me and then some. I'm a very satisfied customer.
I can't comment on the HD channels (I still have an MPEG-2 receiver -- have to figure out what I want to do about that, but I know I can get a free upgrade if I call and ask).