Dish Network vs. DirecTV

Video Description: Dish Network and DirecTV are the two biggest names in satellite television. This video takes a look at how the they've grown and competed with each other as the industry has evolved.

To submit ideas and vote on future topics:

A very special thanks to this wonderful group of Patrons:
Tyrone Cowan, Ken, Ronnie Cheng, Eric Shapley, PleaseUseWisely, Michael Sawyer, Astra, Cervidian, Brooks Sparling, Brian Smith, Huperzia Selago, Ahmad, Jesse Long, Robert T Kirton, milkshake, Brandon L, Jon, Christian & Penny Gray, Emerald Computers – Jason Dragon, Dylan Kinnard, Brett Walton, Dominique Dugas, Nicholas Murphy, Peter Wesselius, Tristan Williams, Meow Wolf, Amy Westacott, MyNameIsKir, Jimmy1985, Stewart Tritapoe, Sondre Grimsmo Sinnes, Chris Lion-Transler, Sirpoptart.

Company Declines:
______________________________

[jacobconrad]

Had DirecTV all through my childhood and used to get so mad every time there was a storm and I couldn't watch cartoons for hours at a time lol

[GoodlySumVideos]

I used to think having satellite was elite until the storms hit 😂

[METALMANWii]

As soon as AT&T bought Direct Tv my Bill went up from $100 to $160 including a $15 charge for HD. I cancelled them after and got a Roku and Sling TV and Hulu $36 for both.

[LNSLateNightSaturday]

My family were early adopters (we lived in the South, where they ran the DirecTV pilot program), and the footage of the first-gen remote and onscreen guide @ 1:28 really took me back! Thanks!

[pineconepinapple]

i remember having the direct tv remote it was the cheapest piece of plastic ever

[John_Locke_]

I'll never forget going to Radio Shack with my dad to get Direct Tv. I think it was '95. Within a couple of hours we had satellite tv and it felt like we had travelled to the future.

[ItsTheCostanza]

1990s: Yay cable
2021: What’s cable? We stream now

[nef_]

Im a Hispanic so most of us have dish because our mothers like watching “telenovelas” but I can’t complain it was amazing had everything made my whole childhood

[BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

DirecTV was my family's preference but as others have pointed out, the interrupted service during storms was just brutal. Thankfully, we also had game consoles, so we'd switch over to that instead.

[JamesLewis]

I remember seeing a giant early satellite dish as a child in 1993 and even marvelling at the available programming; I didn't understand until many years later that there was a time when most satellite broadcasts were unencrypted and therefore technically accessible without a subscription and that was a major reason those dishes were so popular, especially because the next year, I started hearing about DirecTV and wondering about how the dishes could be so much smaller.

[ashethank]

I had Dish when I was a kid, my family was always excited for the free movie channels every month or so and we loved the service. Now we have all moved on, my brother and I use streaming services and my parents have DirectTV now because of a bundle with AT&T. Great memories though.

[Anthony-snvz]

Leaving Sling out of your dish analysis was a pretty big miss on their future that I believe will keep them going.

[whfowle]

Actually those early satellite dish setups were the best tv you could get. Unlimited programming that was free and the quality was the same as the studio monitor in the tv station. Incredible color saturation, clear images and were often not just broadcast but remote feeds from the big trucks the stations sent out on special assignments. You were privy to a lot of "off air" feeds that were meant for the tv station alone to use prior to editing. All you needed was the startup cost of equipment and the ability to point the antenna at the right spot in the sky. The rest was gravy!

[mikekz]

Do a video on Panera Bread. I don’t think it deserves the full “Why They’re Hated” title though. Maybe call it, “Panera Bread, that Sandwich Cost How Much!?”

[a]

Sat tv will become the next AOL. Few million customers because they forget to cancel it the service

[brantisonfire]

First time I watched satellite was back in the late 90s when I would go to visit my dad during the summer. He would go to work and me and my sister would have a babysitter and we used to watch Game Show Network all day. It got me into the classic games shows like Card Sharks and Match Game.

[MrThebeast]

I remember when Dish had a channel that showed a live view of the Earth. It was the coolest thing and I often fell asleep to it

[nakayle]

I had a big C-band dish in the '80s. It was great because I could see not only regular network TV but also lots of closed circuit things that wasn't intend to be seen by the public. This ended when satellites converted to digital transmission and you had to have a special receiver with the proper digital decoder to receive each channel.

[CornflakeMom]

I remember trying to convince my mom we didnt need Direct TV anymore and that we could use Netflix and Youtube instead.
She payed so much money for it, it was insane.

[hotrob]

I’ve been a subscriber to dish since 2006, great service. I always felt Dish was ahead of game with technology. The sling box device worked excellent. The hopper series is also great technology. Dish added Amazon prime tv, Netflix & YouTube which are great ideas however they must add additional streaming services.