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Yesterday DirecTV came out and installed everything we needed to switch from Comcast to satellite. I was a DirecTV customer for over 9 years in the past, but moved to Comcast when DirecTV was unable to offer my local channels in HD. Now they can, so I went back.

I forgot how much better the regular channels look from the satellite, as Comcast still has a ton of analog channels. The only thing I am still waiting on is the HD DVR. DirecTV had to postpone my installation once because they have no HD DVRs. When they finally did come out they were able to take care of everything except for our main TV - the only one that handles HD, so I can’t comment on their HD yet.

Hopefully they will be out tomorrow with a new HD DVR, but I’m not holding my breath. This is the only negative I had with the entire process of returning to DirecTV, but it’s a big one to me.

UPDATE - DirecTV delivered exactly as they said they would and we’ve been using the HD-DVR for the past couple of days.  The nice thing is when we record things we can now control the playback of them.  I haven’t noticed any slowness issues with the hardware yet and the Guide actually scrolls as I press the keys to scroll.  Revolutionary.  Now to make a call to Comcast.