[quote name='Matt Young']Indeed. Aside from Lost, and Raw on Monday's, I'm often not home for the shows I want to watch. I'm still using the archaic VCR method (using archaic to describe a VCR makes me feel old). But DirecTV is a bullshit company that gives great deals on HD receivers, DVR receivers, and combo receivers to new customers but will charge an arm in a leg if people who are under contract want to upgrade. They're still better than digital cable, sadly.
You should have just switched your tag to match his clan's to piss him off.[/quote]I work nights so I never see anything live, but off my DVRs instead. I got both my SD DVRs cheap on bargains in B&M stores, but now that you lease from DirecTV that has dried up. If you are out of your contract and have a little free time to spend on the phone with their customer support

, you can bargain out a deal. I did that when I added an HD DVR. I stressed how Dish provided it free and a buddy of mine had gotten a deal with DirecTV. Also, don't bother with standard customer service reps. You need the department that focuses on KEEPING subscribers. I think it's the retention department, but I'm not sure what they call it. The standard rep said they could only do the standard deal, but that other department could do more and I got the HD service charge creditted back for 3 months AND I had to pay the difference between the HD receiver deal and the HD DVR ($100 at the time), but they agreed to credit my account $10 a month for one year to make up for that cost and for a $20 service fee of some sort.
Hopefully, I'll be back on Cod tonite and tomorrow. Monday night I got on at 1:30 and noone who posts here nor anyone I've played online from the CAG list were on and yesterday we got our new foam mattress yesterday so I had to right to sleep. It's like sleeping on a cloud. . .