Mid Atlantic DirecTV Users Frozen Out Of Olympics … And Everything Else For That Matter
Posted by Jonathan in GENERAL, TELEVISION on 02-17-10 No Comments
DirecTV freezes out in Mid Atlantic
If what we are hearing from Mid Atlantic sports fans we know, opting for DirecTV for the Sunday Ticket may not have been such a good idea. What’s the issue? Satellite reception during snow storms not only sucks during the storm, but it sucks for as long as there’s snow. And considering Snowmaggedon has been going on for three weeks now, our stringer outside of Baltimire has been out of TV service for nearly a month. Missing the SuperBowl, the NBA All Star Game, The Daytona 500 and the first three days of The Olympics. In fact, he is just getting his service back today, just in time to catch women’s curling. The poor guy is losing his mind.
What happens is the white stuff gets into the parabolic dish that aims the satellite signal at the receptor. That’s the big long thing sticking out above. So whatever reception there is, is crap, if one gets reception at all. Here’ a first hand quote of our friend in Bmore.
People who thought they could rely on (DirecTV) are screwed. And if you have an emergency — like 4 feet of snow — and you need to know what’s going on in your community, you can’t rely on getting TV reception. Radio is king, man.
The bottom line for fans is, if your are thinking of going with DirecTV or Dish, be sure you can get up to the dish to clean the thing. Or consider going with cable.
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