After 11 years, we decided to leave DirecTV for AT&T's U-verse. We liked DirecTV... very much. But the price kept increasing and the value kept decreasing as the years went by. Our equipment was more than 6 years old and only one of our HD TVs actually had HD. DirecTV gives HD equipment away right and left for new customers but charges a fortune for established customers. 500 channels is not much good if you only watch 10 or so regularly and we had no premium programming, but we did have 4 DVRs.

U-verse uses fiber to deliver TV, phone and broadband to our home. We keep our previous number and email addresses and get more channels (that I actually watch), premium channels, games, HD for all TVs, one DVR that records more programs for all the TVs in the house and a broadband rate that staggers my efforts to clog it up or slow it down! And all of this for less than DirecTV, DSL service and phone coist me previously!

Installation was long and has been buggy but things seem to be smoothing out. New technology always comes with problems but the rewards are often worth it. I'll report back my continued experiences or my shift away from U-verse.