Which is better Dish network , Direct TV or Cable?

Which is better dish network or direct tv or just stay with cable?

• I have an LCD TV and yes I would like to make sure I have some HD channels. I love football and basketball. So I want to make sure I can catch all the games for my favorite teams. I don't care about the other teams but just the teams that I like. Which would be the best to go with right now? I have cable but I have missed so many games because cable only shows what the local area sport teams prefer. Thanks

• Answer:

  DIRECTV! I reasearched all and used both DirecTV and Dish for years. Most recently i was with Dish for about 8 years. Both are basically the same with programming offerings, but here are a few important differences to me. 1. DirecTV uses only one roof satellite receiver for local channels. Dish, in areas, requires two dish satellite receivers on the roof to receive local channels. I tried for years, purchasing three TV antennae, to get reliable local TV reception; to no avail. I could not get the Dish second roof top receiver because of my neighbor’s trees. 2. DirecTV includes local channels in their price. You pay extra with Dish. 3. DirecTV HD DVR will record two HD channels at once. Dish records two channels at once, but only one is HD. 4. DirecTV receiver stays on if you leave it on. If the Dish receiver is left on, the picture is replaced in the middle of the night with an annoying Dish logo on the screen. So, if you want to record a Dish recorded program to your VCR or DVD during that period, your program is replaced with the Dish logo. 5. DirecTV has at least two weeks of programming information on their system. Dish programming is limited to one week. 6. DirecTV DVR has output options for HDMI, component and two analog AV outputs that operate simultaneously. Dish has HDMI, component and one analog. 7. Both are good for offering a lot of sports selections from across the country. DirecTV is suppose to be better for sports fans (I am not), and offers special spotrs packages - of course at extra cost 8. Definitly do not go with Dish. Dish has a policy, as I unfortunately discovered, that destroys your personal property if you mistakenly return your expensive DVD/hard drive recorder instead of their receiver. Both were out of my media tower and looked almost the same, and I just hastily grabbed the wrong one. They just destroyed it, without any notification, or giving me any opportunity to even pay for it's return. I noticed their receiver, a week after the mistake, but they had already destroyed my equipment. They have consistently, and adamantly refused to compensate me. Yet, I returned their receiver, or my credit card would have been charged. I have No recourse. I certainly would not trust such a company that treats people this way!