# Opinions on DirectTV **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 22, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opinions-on-directtv/256125 "2010-12-22T14:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opinions-on-directtv/256125/13 "2010-12-23T11:31:44Z")
> [@Do you still think the Patriots needed those tapes?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/do-you-still-think-the-patriots-needed-those-tapes/37788/64): > > Yea, I looked into the “after offers” prices through the entire 24 month contract (as well as afterwars). Within the 24 months, I will be paying about $170 on average for 1 HD/DVR, 2 HD boxes, and the premium package. Where the TWC would be on average about a dollar more and it has A LOT less stuff. > > I completely went through the HD channels for both DirectTV and TWC and over-all they had pretty much the same amount of channels, but TWC had a bunch of channels in HD taht I would never watch where DirectTV had more of the common channels (at least for me) in HD. So for me, DirectTV had a better HD selection. > > I think I’m going to give it a try. Worse comes to worse, I either suck it up for the 2 years, or pay to cancel early and then go back to TWC. Plus, the quality of the picture is 10x better on directv --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/opinions-on-directtv/256125)._