http://www.viewpoints.com/aboutme/phinehas Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:40:55 GMT Reviews by phinehas http://www.viewpoints.com/DirecTV-review-dbeb5 The only reason we selected DirecTV and the only reason we've stuck with it as long as we have was the NFL ticket.  The NFL ticket was our only real option for watching our home team when we are not in the local market.  But our experience has consisted of one technical headache after another followed by incredibly poor customer support.<br/><br/>Our first hurdle happened at the initial install about three years ago.  We had two standalone TiVo's networked together, but the DirecTV sattelite receivers didn't respond very well to TiVo signals sent to change the channel.  To work at all, we'd have to use their flimsy IR blasters, which seemed to introduce quite a bit of lag to changing the channel.  I'd read about other receivers that worked better with our TiVo setup, so I went out and purchased them.  Once they were installed, everything worked just fine.<br/><br/>Then DirecTV downloaded a firmware update to our receivers that broke the connection between the TiVo and the receiver.  I called customer...... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:40:55 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/DirecTV-review-dbeb5 phinehas 1