I must say quite honestly I will miss the reruns of some cool shows like The Nanny and Seinfeld etc which air on the Sony channels of DirecTV and of course I will miss American Idol, which only just started back...that show is not over-rated. (Come on Columbus Cable or whatever your name is, bring us Fox!) But I will not miss the exorbitant monthly fee for basic service and the 'per-box' monthly rental and I will definitely not miss the bondage of an annual contract! I will miss the "guide" which was really cool. I kinda liked being able to pre-select certain TV shows and also to lock the box so it wouldn't switch channels! However, these minor conveniences are not worth the extra money or the iron-clad contract which DirecTV is free to break but the customer is not. I say this because when I signed up, I was shown a list of channels which I would have access to, and then a few months into the contract, they abruptly deleted some channels from my service without even the courtesy of a letter of apology/notification for the change.
I will also not miss the "Spanish-language-only" content on some of the channels, and not being able to predict when this will happen, or the lack of "Alt audio" even when it is supposed to be available. And I will definitely NOT miss the Spanish subtitles in my face all the time! I have nothing against Spanish. In fact, I would like to learn it a bit more, but not while I'm watching TV!
