I have had comcast, Dish, Direct TV and Long time ago, Antenna over the past 40 years.
Overall Best customer service and reception - Direct TV
Worst Customer Service - Dish and Comcast next.
Antenna - Too long ago, but I remember having snowy receptions some days & nights. Seems like an overcast gave you better picture reception, especially at night.
Using direct TV for last 15 years or so, started out at $59 bucks, today its $134. Just about had enough of rate hikes. Would like to see Shoals area provide a Retransmission of all the Huntsville stations, transmitting out strong signal to at least a 50 mile radius of shoals. Then pick up "Sling" over internet, but it requires a lot of bandwidth, which is not available in the outlying county. In Atlanta area, "Sling" offers a very reasonable rates for $20, $25 and another combined package for $40 ~ 65 channels. Comcast internet would have enough bandwidth to use sling without any buffering or distortions. I could be wrong.
Sling offers a free trial for 7 days, but I have not tried as of yet. I do like the Idea of using Sling and Antenna for local stations, but unfortunately that would only mean picking up channel 15 & 36...but if a rebroadcast signal in shoals happened, I would love to just use Internet & Antenna for the channels we commonly watch.. Huntsville Local channels & Sling channels.
Has anyone used "Sling" as a live TV provider? Just curious about its performance and bandwidth use. One issue I read about, stated some stations max out at 30 frames per second and may give a distorted picture. You have to lower your picture quality in order to receive smoother reception, ie; 1080p to 720p or even 480p. Sling is in its infancy and has some Undesirable Issue's to be worked out. FYI: Sling is owned by DISH.