Mad as Hell...not so much!!

[JohnACV]

This just goes to show that...1. Post in the correct forum. 2. Get UNbent before writing, and 3. Get your facts right!
First let me say...Thank you to all who responded to my rant, the feedback was well appreciated. Even though I was sort of "put in my place" I'm still pretty pissed off at Directv however, my anger has taken an additional direction. It seems an ever increasing number of companies are abandoning "service" to thier customers and instead focused on "service" to thier major stockholders. Laws pertaining to publically held companies are somewhat responsible for this but I think that customers as a force are more responsible. Companies realized a while back that the customer hs become an old toothless dog...they bark a little but there's really no bite. This is, to a large extent, why companies like Directv take advantage of us. This has been happening in local, State and Fecderal politics for a very long time...TOO LONG!! Change will never happen sitting on your ass, hoping someone else will take the lead. This situation is synonomous with whats happening in our country. As a conservative, I don't want the government telling me what I can eat, drive or listen to on the radio and I certainly don't want some service providing company telling me how it's going to be!! Even with all it's faults, America is still the best country on earth just as, in my opinion, Directv is the best service provider for media content. This does not mean I should roll over and take it or offer up a toothless bark!
I understand this is not the forum for this. I just wanted to respond to those who have rolled over or crept off to another provider. I guess the point I wanted to make was... as consumers, we don't have to accept being treated like this. We can do something. We just have to try! FYI: A Class Action Lawsuit was never an avenue I considered.
Thank you for being patient with me as I am not privy to all of the rules and such of posting threads on forums. Your feedback is appreciated...positive or not. I'll remember in the future to post in the correct group. I realize that I'm a little "Johnny come lately" to some of the issues and maybe a little niave but I believe that the operators and members of this forum, whether they agree with me or not, will help to educate me.
Respectfully,

JohnACV

[bicker]

Originally Posted by JohnACV

I guess the point I wanted to make was... as consumers, we don't have to accept being treated like this. We can do something.

That's right: We can stop purchasing products and services that we don't like the terms and conditions of the sale. If even people do, then things will change; otherwise, things will stay the same.

[nrc]

Yes, I dropped DirecTV because their overall product was no longer the value it once was. That included the lack of TiVo but wasn't entirely because of it. Unfortunately for those of us that care about that, their hold on Sunday Ticket and market leading HD lineup have kept them from really being impacted by their decline in other areas.

[JJ]

DirecTV
chose a business course. I'm certain that using thier home brew DVR and not TiVo has increased hier bottom line profitabiity. I chose not to follow. No animosty there, but the repeated phone calls begging me to return are changing that.

I went to DirecTV for TiVo, someday the HDPC-20 may tempt me to return. Until its ready there is no DirecTV product exciting enough that would lure me to enter into a two year DirecTV commitment...

[alyssa]

I tried the TW dvr, i was back to tivo within 3 months--

even the cable guy was amazed with the tivo UI-

[TolloNodre]

Originally Posted by JohnACV

As a conservative, I don't want the government telling me what I can eat, drive or listen to on the radio and I certainly don't want some service providing company telling me how it's going to be!!

So you have three choices then:
1) Government decides for you
2) Private Corporations decide for you
3) Do It Yourself


I guess that means that you're starting your own satellite company.

[ZeoTiVo]

so you go from a thread about DirectTV that did not quite fit the forum
to a thread that rants about all companies that do not deliver service that completely does not fit in this forum???

*sigh*

the idea of this forum is to post something that pertians to discussion around TiVo or media delivery that folks with DVRs might be intereted in.

It it is about directTV then go for a DirectTV forum

otherwise general rants like this belong in the Happy Hour forum