Tuesday, June 02, 2009
HD, coming soon to a living room near me
I'm sitting here waiting for the Directv guy to finish installing our HD dish. It's now 6 PM. He was supposed to be here between 8 and noon. He called at 11 to tell me he wouldn't be here until 2ish. He didn't get here until 3:45. He's now rerunning the cable he just installed because he got to the corner of the house where he was going to run it down to meet the existing dish cabling, and got scared of the power lines. I feel for the guy. Really I do.Our old dish was mounted on the railing of our deck at a corner of the house. It's out of the way, and not too visible. Unfortunately, the new dish can't mount there. Since the HD dishes are larger and need a more clear shot to the south west, the new installation protocol is on the roof or mount on a pole. I was reluctant to have the guy mount it on the roof, but we have two rather large trees in our backyard, and a pole wasn't really an option. The dish is up, and it's so obnoxious looking. BP is going to freak out when she sees it. I've prepared her, but she's already had me ask what it would cost to have it moved.
I'm sure we'll get used to seeing the big obnoxious thing in the middle of our roof, but geeze it seems like there must have been better options. I actually don't care too much at the this point. I'm just glad that we'll FINALLY be able to get our local networks, and HD TV. Oh, and that we'll have a 100 hour DVR. We are forever having to clear the clutter off of our 30 hour TiVo.
At least this satellite guy didn't keep asking for my husband like the last one did.
*update* The Directv guy finally left at a quarter til 8. HD is so worth it though.
Can you believe we bought a flat screen high def tv like 2 years ago and we STILL do not have high def service hooked up to it?
How sad is that?
We were in the same boat as you, until today. I think we bought our high def tv about a year and a half ago. When we looked into upgrading when we bought the tv, it was super expensive. But I called the other day, because we can finally get our local channels, and they told us we'd have to upgrade in order to get them. The upgrade only cost us $52 though. That included the new dish, an HD receiver, a 100 hour HD DVR, and the installation. Well you just can't hardly beat that with a stick, now can you.
We've had the dish twice, but always go back to cable (comcast.) I just like it better. esp in the winter when the weather is so bad that sometimes it interferes with the dish reception.
We've had Directv for, I don't know, 10 or more years. Until now we've also had to keep basic cable in order to get the local channels. We prefer Directv because we get some channels we just can't get with our cable company. And I don't know why, but I just have this issue with the cable company having a monopoly in our town. Plus, it pisses me off that they don't give or sell you the equipment,like a DVR, you rent it. So while we do have reception issues during bad storms, it's not often enough that it's such a problem that I'd go back to cable.
Ah, a telemarketer type person called the other night, and when I told her I wasn't home, she wanted to know if her (my) husband was at home or how to reach him. LOL She asked me like 3 times even after I said she (me) does not have a husband nor ever will again.
So when I went and read your one on "the husband" I cracked up!
Love HDTV. Enjoy!
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