I had direct tv for many years but changed because I needed the internet and satellite internet cost way too much in my area. I really really miss Direct TV--I only had one outage the whole time we had it and that was because we had a big snow storm and the snow covered the dish and I wasn't about to take these 60 year old bones up to a snow covered roof the remove the snow, lol. As soon as the snow melted we were fine. We have FIOS now and everyday there seems to be some sort of problem...