Does anyone have DirectTV? If so do you like it and does it mess up really bad in bad weather?

Question

Does anyone have DirectTV? If so do you like it and does it mess up really bad in bad weather?

Answer 1

I've had it for 5 years - it works fine with a rare outage that usually only lasts about a minute,and this only happens when a really bad storm is over the house.

Answer 2

Yes....and yes.....All dish type receivers are subject to thunderstorms, ice, snow and other winter type weather....

Answer 3

I have Directv HD and never lost a signal in rain, or snow - with snow on the dish, or heavy clouds - maybe they lined up my dish better or maybe they have a stronger signal off of the HD satellite - which is a different one than the standard signal satellite - much newer.  I'm very happy with it and expected it to mess up more - but it never has.

The DVR has a few quirks but it works fine.  One thing is if I rewind or pause a show, then FF all the way to the end, the sound will start skipping - either hitting pause or changing the channel off and back fixes it.

Directv is the best for HD.

Answer 4

Not as bad as people are led to believe.  I've been a subscriber now for almost 10 years and have hardly ever lost service due to the weather and I live in an area prone to T storms.  If your dish is pointed and mounted correctly it has to be raining EXTREMELY hard to lose the signal.  Then generally it returns a few minutes later once it slacks off a bit.

I love my DTV and you'd have to pry it out of cold dead hands.

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