Dish or DirecTV

[Ken]

When my Fios $65 ($85 after taxes and box) internet + tv promo ran out 3 months ago,  I switched to fios internet only($40, no tax) plus directv now ($35, no tax).  

Total is $75/month and it works very well.  Directv now works well enough for us,  we dont watch a ton of tv, just news and occasional sports.  Well worth it for the cost savings.

How are you liking the interface? My wife pretty much demands TV for Bravo (good lord dont get me started).  I see DirecTV has Bravo and she mostly just streams old episodes while working or doing things around the house.  I just need NBCSN and FS1 for my IMSA races.  I know TV seems like a waste for us but my wife insists.  And considering my budget for the race car I am not going to fight this one

Since we both work from home full time we are going down the road of Windstream Gigabit internet and I would love to cut the cable bill down by $20-30 a month.

I originally used it with a first gen firestick,  which was too slow (the 2nd gen/quadcore should be fine)  They sent me a free firetv 4k which is night and day better.  3 month prepay and they will give you an appletv which I hear are quite nice.

The new interface just came out a week or two ago,  but I havent upgraded the app yet.  All reports are that its pretty good,  though I dont mind the old interface.

The biggest downsides are (some of these may have changed in the new UI?)

• A bit of buffering when changing channels.  Its not good for channel flippers.  
  
• An extra step to start watching tv.  start firetv,  then select the directv now app.  (I start firetv with alexa voice command now which streamlines it a bit)  
  
• No channel numbers, so you cant go directly to a channel  (but a nice 'favorites' UI to make it faster)
  
• No 'last channel' button so you cant go back and forth between two channels.  
  
• Occasionally during primetime the quality will degrade to 8-bit nintendo blurry view for a few seconds at a time before snapping back to high res.  this has really only happened 3 times to me.
  

for the price savings, and the added bonus of smartphone tv anywheres,   Im a happy customer

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All accurate downsides - although the channels are in alphabetical order which is something that i wanted forever for Cable and made sense to me immediately. I really do want a "last channel button," though.
I run it on a previous Gen Fire TV and the most recent Fire TV Stick - both work equally well IMO. My brother uses the Apple TV and likes that as well. Have not tried Roku.