Directv here for 10 years and we are happy. As an earlier poster stated, sometimes when storms come through we lose reception for a few minutes, but it soon restores itself. If the storm big enough to block the satellite, it's usually more interesting to watch than what's on tv anyway!
When we first switched from cable to satellite, my husband took the cable box down to the office to return it. He said there were about 20 people standing in line, all except one guy turning in their cable boxes because they were upgrading to satellite. The one guy was bummed because he was renting a house and his landlord refused to upgrade, lol.