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Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

I am on hold trying to get a phone jack put behind my TV so I can get the DVR while its free...

anyone use this already?

Anyone have Direct TV? - Vitamin E - 01-04-2006

Vit E is a happy NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Vitamin E - 01-04-2006

TiVol is the shit! Do what ever you need to do to get that shit hooked up. The spanish channel is even better when you can pause and rewind it.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

hold time with bellsouth currently 13 minutes...

I will be getting it this month E!

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

anyone have direct TV HD too?

Anyone have Direct TV? - Bill - 01-04-2006

Anhil8tor Wrote:I am on hold trying to get a phone jack put behind my TV so I can get the DVR while its free...

anyone use this already?

I have dish network but I just got the DVR box....it's kindof a rip. cause I use the dual TV boxes (1 box does 2 tv's) an they charged me 50 bucks for the new box, it has HD on one side along with the DVR and the other side is plain. so if I wanna do another hdtv I have to spring for another box....it's ok once you get past paying 5 bucks a month extra to use the thing....don't you already have a phone jack by the box?

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

jack will be installed monday

Anyone have Direct TV? - Tribal Dragon - 01-04-2006

I have dish, and will be cancelling as of Saturday when Comcast comes on Saturday.

Dish Network and Direct TV can not legally offer local channels in HD, and I want to watch the playoffs in HD.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

Tribal Dragon Wrote:I have dish, and will be cancelling as of Saturday when Comcast comes on Saturday.

Dish Network and Direct TV can not legally offer local channels in HD, and I want to watch the playoffs in HD.


Direct TV has HD channels for the sunday ticket...

maybe its b/c of your local channels.. my locals are in HD

Anyone have Direct TV? - Tribal Dragon - 01-04-2006

Anhil8tor Wrote:Direct TV has HD channels for the sunday ticket...

maybe its b/c of your local channels.. my locals are in HD
Did you get them via antennae? I can't get them on antennae where I live.

Satellite HD: a sea change


For the past few years, HD via satellite has been a promising yet frustrating way to get high-definition shows. By subscribing to DirecTV or Dish Network, viewers living in the most far-flung areas of the continental United States can get their fair share of HD, including satellite-only offerings such as the NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. What's the catch? Because bandwidth is at a premium when you're dealing with satellites and because each satellite must broadcast the literally hundreds of local channels separately, none of the three services have been able to offer local HD stations without a clumsy over-the-air antenna add-on. To help compensate, satellite providers have offered a handful of national HD channels, such as the East and West Coast feeds of NBC, ABC, Fox, and CBS, but they're hardly local, and they're legally available only in certain metropolitan areas and in the country.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Vitamin E - 01-04-2006

8! you gotta check out the Dish Network 'pocketDish'!

Click this!

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

the people I bought my house from last year had direct tv with HD.. they had an antenna installed in their attic so they could get the HD channels..


E!.. that is fuckin sw33t.. but I'll stick with direct tv

Anyone have Direct TV? - Vitamin E - 01-04-2006

DirectTV has the sunday ticket - Vit E is a DirectTV subscriber
Sirius has the NFL - Vit E is a Sirius subscriber

Although DishNetwork and XM have cooler devices, but NFL fans can't even compare the content.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

That is the way it always is..

madden has sole rights to the NFL game.... now there won't be anywhere near the changes made each year simply because no one else has the NFL teams, players etc etc

Anyone have Direct TV? - Tribal Dragon - 01-04-2006

Anhil8tor Wrote:the people I bought my house from last year had direct tv with HD.. they had an antenna installed in their attic so they could get the HD channels..


E!.. that is fuckin sw33t.. but I'll stick with direct tv
Makes sense.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Vitamin E - 01-04-2006

Anhil8tor Wrote:That is the way it always is..

madden has sole rights to the NFL game.... now there won't be anywhere near the changes made each year simply because no one else has the NFL teams, players etc etc

I kind of agree. It's not like EA sports has got any extra money just laying around after they inked the exclusive deal with the league, teams, players union, stadiums, etc. But, they'll still need to update their shit every year. They can't count soley on new line ups to make back the ass-load of cash the put up to get that deal.

Back the in day when NBC tried low-balling the NFL. They lost the NFC home games to FOX. They learned their lesson, paying top dollar to get one game a week back. In defense of NBC that sunday night game is gonna be the top game of the week, nice work NBC!

We'll have to wait and see what other game companies do when the five year EA deal expires.

Anyone have Direct TV? - Anhil8tor - 01-04-2006

NBC really did their homework when pulling that Sunday night game..It will be the draw way more than the Monday Night game..

How can ABC have the monday night game for so long and never get to pick from a few games? How do they get stuck with crap almost every week and NBC will be able to pick?

My point is that EA will not devote as much to the game as they would if there were 2 or 3 companies out there producing NFL games. Madden clearly was the class of the NFL games every year...