Hughes Networks D4532 DIRECTV

Pros: Super simple, one touch programming, built in TV Guide!
Cons: Not so easy to set up the dish itself. Need multiple receivers for multiple TVs

Boy, oh, boy! Am I glad I purchased this piece of technology! It is the most amazing thing! I love it, love it, love it! The programmable channel lists let you design a program guide for everyone in your family without having to surf through the boring...

Pros: Dolby Digital audio, D-VHS compatible
Cons: More expensive, not a plus receiver

The Hughes Platinum D4532 offers Dolby Digital audio, D-VHS VCR connection, and excellent performance for a DirecTV receiver. I have owned Sony, RCA, and Hughes DirecTV receivers and Hughes currently makes the best receivers in my opinion. Very...

Pros: Clear reception and sound, easy set up
Cons: none

We have a Hughes satellite receiver in our bedroom and the dish is stored in our travel trailer. We have our RCA satellite dish on the roof of our house. When we go camping we take the receiver with us camping and set up at our camp site. Very easy to...

Pros: Great picture, decent variety of channels.
Cons: CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!!!!!

We bought a directv system 8 months ago. Our cable company (Time Warner,) was going digital. The satellite companies were coming out of the wood work with deals to compete with the new digital format of T.W. Promises of deals that sounded spectacular....

Pros: Well made, great sound, good reputation for quality
Cons: Not multi-satellite compatible

I've had this system for just over a month now, and I love it. The reason I went with this model over the other Hughes models was for the Dolby Digital output. I have the optical digital out connected to my Onkyo TX-DS555 DD receiver. Sure, very...

Pros: Inexpensive and works fantastic!!
Cons: Sometimes the dish will delay when changing the channel.

Cable TV is now a thing of the past and Direct TV is the wave of the future. For years the only type of TV that was available to me was cable. It seems as though every month I was paying $30 for a bunch of channels that I didn't even like.

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Pros: LOTS of channels
Cons: expensive

After reading some of the other epinions on DirecTV, I too wanted to give you my take on them. Unlike some of the others, I was not initially pleased with DirecTV.

I too live out in nowhere land (or as my son puts it- in the sticks) so cable...

Pros: The selection of channels not offered on cable
Cons: Scrambled signal, local channel selection, and the cost of sports packages

I just purchased my dish from Best Buy in my area, and I am really missing my cable. First of all when I asked for special installation I was promised the world, but when the installer came to the house he told me that he had too many jobs to do that day...

Pros: Good Pay Per View Service
Cons: Horrible billing dept, higher prices than other satellite services

My husband and I got out DirectTV system by default. We were Primestar users and when DirectTV bought out Primestar, they gradually converted everyone over. We had heard such great things about DirectTV such as how there would be so many more channels...

Pros: The only pro is you get more options like the NFL football package.
Cons: All my cons have been listed above.

First, their fees are extremely high and the only reason I got them was to get the NFL football package. If you don't need that package, then you're better of with your cable. Second, it doesn't hold well under bad weather at all. I take that back, ...

Pros: None
Cons: They suck

When I ended my contract they kept billing me even thought I didn't owe any money. Then they sent it a collection agency and put it on my credit report. I finally had to pay just to get my credit rating back in good standing. All for only $137.00.

The service was never really good. I would lose the picture in slightly bad weather. I would never recommend them to anyone and wouldn't use them if they were the last cable company on Earth.