Comments on: DISH Network TurboHD Review

By: roger

roger — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:27:18 +0000

You people need to use this so called GOOD DEAL for about 6 mo. then read your own comments . What a joke……………….

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:03:47 +0000

This is a good deal for most viewers. How many channels of TV can a normal person actually make use of?
My only complaint is that I paid the extra $6/mo for local channels, but the “local” PBS channel is actually the national feed, rather than KCET (I live in Santa Barbara, and we got KCET from our COX cable service). This makes absolutely no sense to me, but DISH is a large company, and can’t be bothered with this oddity.

By: Rex

Rex — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:49:35 +0000

Turbo HD rocks! I cant say enough about this service. Left Time Warner cable two months ago for Turbo HD, and couldnt be happier. Not only is my bill about $50 less than with TWC, but I dont miss a thing when it comes to channels. Sure I lost some shopping networks, but anything worth watching at all is on the Turbo HD gold lineup, and the DishDVR rocks too.

By: john

john — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:35:17 +0000

if you have direct tv switch it is cheaper and there is alot more hd channels and they are all worth watching and recording we can put up to 500 hours on our hddvr switch if you can it is so much bettter

By: john

john — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:33:17 +0000

We just switched and i was blown away i love the turbo hd gold it is the best we have had i love it and would recommend this to anyone i know it is even better than our old directtv it is cheaper too we even get more premium movie channels than we did before we switched

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:09:28 +0000

I actually like these packages. I really don’t care about 90% of the channels provided by cable or satellite. Lets face it, if you have time to watch all these channels you probably need to get a lfe.
I am thinking of subscribing to the TurboHD because 1. Its cheap, 2. It has all the basic channels I want and 3. Its all in HD.
On top of that, I can get a two-room dvr so I can watch the few shows I like in either my family room or bedroom.
Not everyone needs or wants 100 channels.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:51:19 +0000

how many channels are actually transmitted in FULL HD?

By: phil

phil — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:04:28 +0000

I currently get more hd channels with time warner. They added a good number of channels over the past two months at least in the nyc area. Based on the price the hd turbo package is a good deal though, as far as premium channels are concerned you can dl movies on the internet.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:13:40 +0000

For less money that Time Warner charges for it’s analog lineup, the Turbo Silver with two receivers looks good to me. I can live without 8 religious channels and 6 shopping channels. and almost all of the HD channels from Dish are not available at all from Time Warner, who have developed a nasty habit of annual 10% price increases and added fees on top of high equipment and dvr fees. Goodbye cable ripoff. We can also get DSL with no phone line purchase, so I’m ready to be free of Time Warner at last. 200 channels aren’t worth anything if most of them are crap, the Dish channels are the ones we actually watch and they’re in HD to boot. Since both of my TVs are HD I am looking forward to getting this installed.

By: Curt

Curt — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:36:18 +0000

This package looks absolutely amazing. When my buddy Michael tryed to get an install he realized a tree needed to be moved. He almost backed out…..then Dish offered 10 a month off his bill for the first year. Well……..not only was it a deal to start….but that paid for the tree branch removal…….DING DING DING…..we got a winner. When we first turned it on we were a little down…….thought the picture wasn’t right….played with the options and instantly when we switched to 1080 option we were blown away. Add the dvr……ability to download your favorites……downloading from work when he found something awesome………this service is exactly what he needed. I am going to get this for the house very soon. Comcast gives you jumbled numbers…….you get exactly what you want with this package.