Get all your local channels in HD with DirecTV
Zack and I switched to DirecTV about a year ago and had a terrible experience with it. Because we live in an apartment, we had to acquire a large bucket and fill it with cement to support the poll that the satellite dish is attached to. Then we learned after we signed up that we were locked into a 2 year contract that we already wanted out of.
The bucket is filled with 100 pounds of cement but that isn’t enough to stop a small breeze from knocking the dish out of alignment and leaving us without TV. One day, the wind knocked the satellite over, but thankfully it didn’t break our balcony’s glass sliding doors or fall off the balcony 11 stories.
All our anger at the dish aside, DirecTV’s programming is very diverse, offering a wide variety of stations, a lot of which are offered in High Definition. The only stations unavailable in HD through DirecTV are local stations (Fox, ABC, NBC, CW, etc.). There is a way to view them in HD but you must buy an extra HD antenna.
All that is going to change on October 8, when DirecTV will begin offering local channels in HD without the assistance of an antenna. You can learn more about this on DirecTV’s website.
I may complain a lot about DirecTV, but I still feel they are a lot better than Time Warner Cable, whose customer service and HD offerings leave little to the imagination. And if you like NBC programming (offered on WDTN-Channel 2) then you might want to switch to DirecTV since it seems like Time Warner might stop offering the channel to its viewers.
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