it snows hard(and ices) here in MO. i had troubles with my dish anyway, But one morning it went out after a hard snow so i went outside, took a long fan cleaning pole i had in the garage and gently got the snow off of my dish(which is located on the roof) signal came back after that, Otherwise when it rained mine went out. I think i either had a bad dish, or my local direcTV installers are very stupid and dont know what their doing

Edit: also rose.... i DID have direcTV one time before this which was like 8 years ago(it was actually Primestar but direcTV bought them out and we changed to DirecTV satelite equipment).... and NEVER had problems with it when it rained. I'm pretty PO'd that when i had recently got it that it did this, But im sure if you get direcTV it will work perfect for you. The only problem youll have is taking it off Discovery channel. When thats in pure digital format its adictive

 

SuperCab beat me too it. He is correct. It is NOT high def. So go with the standard set up.

K-

 

Snow shouldn't be an issue if they mount the dish in the right spot, our roof has a large overhang on the south end and they should be able to tuck it under there and still receive a signal.

 

I wouldn't count on puting it under anyhting . . . needs to have totally unobstructed view of the bird.

 

It is a nice TV, so I guess I'll have to survive without HD.

But does it look straight up? Couldn't it be mounted slightly under the roof on the end with all the windows?:



PS, see my sad antenna, I get 1 channel with that puppy

 

as long as thats facing south i wouldnt worry to much about it...... only problem is depending on where the satelite is in space and your location the dish will either be pointed straight up or halfway up. ive seen them in many different positions

 

Wow Rose, that picture is like a post card. Man I miss the mountains!

I've had both Direct TV and Dish Network. I've had much better customer service from Dish Network. However, they both scramble in a heavy rain storm.

I have Dish Net now, and wouldn't go back to any other service provider.

Good luck.

 

Thanks Mach, check out the rest of the pics in my gallery!!

And thank you for your input!

 

I'm going to head for bed guys. Thanks for the responses.

Kobi, I hope you have a much better day tomorrow. You're going to have to at least give me an e-mail address so we can correspond.

G'night!

 

oh wow, i want to move there...... thats such an awesome and beautiful area you live in. I wont even begin to show you what my area looks like, nothing but homes going up

 

I had Dish a few years ago, now DirecTV. My mai nreason for switching was to get a better receiver, which was cheaper to get being a new customer than a current one.

I recommend getting the professional installation if it does not cost much. They have the tools to get the highest signal strength. If you go with DirecTV, get the triple LNB oval dish. You may not care about high def now, but you will before you need a new dish. Besides, they are free anyway.

I think I ordered from Expert Satellite, but Rapid Satellite is also good. I also highly recommend DVR from either company. I love my Tivo!

 

We have DirecTV, it took me awhile to get over losing my cable, but I managed. Having so many more channels is nice. We lose the signal during very heavy rains, but that's it. The only thing I don't care for is that I can't order individual channels, I want the Outdoors Channel, but they won't let me order just that one.

 

I have Direct TV with Tivo. Tivo rules!!!!!!!!!!!! But enough of Tivo before I start sounding like those pathetic paid advertisements for it, again.


Occasionally we have had problems getting a signal with DirectTV during big thunderstorms. Not that common though.

The box in my room needed to be reset frequently and would not display some channels at all or real choppy. Non of the other boxes in the house had that issue though. When I got the Tivo box the issue went away.

The only other problem, is our house got hit with an electrical surge or lighting. Not sure which. Killed 1 cable box and DirectTV didn't work for the whole house. Tech support was out withing 3 days.

They replaced the splitter, no signal. They replaced the LNB, no signal. They replaced the Dish, boom better signal. Only cost $70 to fix it.



On a side note, DirectTV is joining forces with XM:

http://www.directtv.com/see/landing/xm.html

 

I have DirecTV and love it. Get a Tivo too, you wont be sorry!!

 

i also have directv and love it!! Nothing beats the "nfl network!"