This complaint is regarding DirecTV Corporation deliberately weakening the transmitting signal to satellite number one which broadcasts all the information to all of their customer's older receivers from about 1985 to 1995, approximately. The old receivers for receiving the signal from DirecTV satellites are only set up to receive the one satellite, one of the two or three satellites they have circling the Earth's atmosphere today. The other one or two extra satellites which have been recently put in around the Earth's atmosphere are designed to feed information to the newer receivers which require 2 satellites for proper signal reception for all of the extra bells and whistles on the new type receivers. But, I as well as hundreds of thousands of other customers, do not wish to buy another receiver and pay an extra $10 a month for the digital reception which will give a better picture. But with all the advertising on all four corners by the networks network's and the fact that all the networks now put big black bars across the top and bottom of the screens, what good does it do to increase the resolution when we will have to enlarge the screens on our plasma screens to remove the big black bars which have removed about 20% of the viewing screen, TV picture?! Not much!
And after I complained to DirecTV about the lack of viewing entertainment because of the advertising going on all four corners of the screen, the two large black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, paying $56 and pretty much only receiving networks that have commercials, doubling the volume level during the commercial breaks, and all of the attention grabbing, flashing banners across the bottom of the screen once the shows begin every time after the commercial break, I noticed that three days later while viewing the following channels I am no longer able to bring up the program description/details about the show being played. Nor was I able to check the program descriptions of the shows coming up later in the day.
The following are the channels that I, and probably everybody else who is using an older DirecTV receiver box, cannot receive detailed descriptions about the shows on DirecTV's menu, Channel 245 TNT, 248 FX, 249 COM, 209 sports, 237 BRAVO, 241 Spike and 244 sci-fi Channel. But, the mall shopping network channel 250 which is right next to channel 249, which program description cannot be received, has no problem in viewing the program description of any of the commercials trying to sell products at bat channel, 250 Mall Shopping.
Does anybody else have this problem? Or is it really just my receiver, which I doubt very much according to the details I gave above how a channel right next to the channel which does not allow program description does allow us to view the program description for channel 250.
I would truly like to believe the corporate stingy greedy bastards at DirecTV did not deliberately weaken the signal going to the only one satellite which customers like us use for our older receivers! But, most of you know how greedy and power- hoarding and controlling corporations are with of other peoples lives just so that the corporation can make an extra 10 thousand dollars a year!
Well, I think DirecTV has gone way too far this time to force changes on hundreds of thousands of their existing customers by weakening the signal being transmitted to the number one satellite so that all of us with older receivers will eventually be forced to purchase their new receiver and then have to pay an extra $10 a month because we have the new HD system. I and well as hundreds of thousands of other customers do not want to do that and are quite satisfied with the receivers we have, of course until now! But I will not change my old receiver because I like the much more pleasant to view menu screen and I find no need to increase the resolution on only about one third of the programs I view today.
Oh, by the way, has anyone tried to figure out how much revenue comes into DirecTV Corporation from all of its 2 million customers? The average bill paid by the 2 million customers is approximately $70, probably more but let's use that as a starting figure. I based that $70 approximation on the fact of the average per month bill which ranges from $29 to $120. I chose an average of $70 per month for all 2 million customers because I thought it was better to choose a low figure to indicate the amount of incredible revenue coming into DirecTV Corporation yearly. So, $70 times 2 million customers equals $ 140, 000, 000. of incoming revenue every year! How about what their revenue had been for the last five years at that amount- $ 700, 000, 000.! So, why do those corporation bastards have to force me and steal another $10 a month and supply me with a receiver with the extra bells and whistles that I and many other people don't actually need nor want to continue their viewing pleasure of the shows being broadcast by the networks through DirecTV's satellite system?!
Now, I seem to understand why all those high school and college-age students by the tens of thousands across the United States were holding picket signs condemning corporate crappy behavior outside the courthouses around the United States back in February of this year!
And if someone else reads this complaint and have the same problems I am having then please call DirecTV Corporation and complain like hell and demand they stop doing that because it's not right to force change on us just to make a next or $10, 000 a year to add to your grubby pocketbooks and purses! I would be glad to give the 800 number for DirecTV Corporation but most of these complaints sites don't want us to list phone numbers. But all you have to do is go online and request DirecTV's corporate phone number.
Good luck to us all on trying to improve our personal lives and not allow corporate pig bastards to keep stealing from us and then pulling this dastardly scheme to force us into change just so they can make more profit off of us!
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