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Posted by Fred C. Dobbs on 08/09/07 14:10
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:22:06 GMT, "Industrial Mineral"
<industrial.mineral@nospam.net> wrote:
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>"George Orwell" <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote in message
>news:185a504bab071d11d094e5c5b0c97b09@mixmaster.it...
>> It used to be you could buy a DIRECTV receiver at K-Mart or Walmart for
>> about $50 for do it yourself installation and be done with it.
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>> I went to the DIRECTV website and the receiver is $70 with $20 per month
>> lease which really adds up. It does come with professional installation,
>> however. That is a mighty price to pay for a few hours of a technician's
>> time.
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>> Can subscribers still buy the dish/receiver combo at reasonable prices for
>> self-installation?
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>I just switched from digital cable to direct tv, got the receiver with the
>hard drive that acts like TiVo, and the premium ent package, and did not pay
>anything for the equipment, no lease, and it was installed. I started at
>Direct TV web site, too.
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>By the way the picture on direct tv is 40-50% better than digital cable,
>clearer and does not pixilize. Cable companies always overload their
>equipment until it gets so bad customers leave. Cable did this by offering
>phone service over their cable, along with high speed modems and tv. After
>using direct tv for a month, I wish I had switched years ago. Cable sucks.
>The DSL modem from the phone company is 4 times faster than the cable modem
>at abut 30% less money.
Most of what you say is true, but DSL is not alway's faster than
cable. It may depend on your cable compay's service option. But in my
area DSL can only do half the speed of my cable modem. That is the
only reason I have Cable, That and the fact that my HiDef DVR costs me
$4 a month and that I get more Hi def channels for Less than I pay for
HDTV service form DirecTv. (I have both Cable and DirecTv)
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>If you go to circuit city, they sell all of direct tv's equipment. Why buy,
>they will give it to you, I got mine for nothing other than the monthly
>service charge for programs.
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