Kareem wroteI'd go for Cablevision in a heartbeat if they let me have my own receiver. I mean I suggested to pay for 3 of their receivers without taking it, get my own receiver and let them encrypt it. They refused.
I don't know what's wrong with them. Their new receivers the Novel something is on sale on Aliexpress for $8 dollars.
National channels on Cablevision are in HD ( MTV, LBC and NTV )
The CV receiver really pisses me off---its menus are from the stone age and it is super slow to boot. If I am pointing the dish at Arabsat, I might as well get Bein straight from the source and not worry about a middleman. Also, Bein connect is helpful especially when the weather is bad like it has been.
If CV decided to upgrade their current lineup of receivers, then maybe stay with them, but like you said Kareem, they took a really cheap receivers and encrypted them and passed them on to customers without caring what customers thought of them. They are a monopoly after all, but still---people can point their dishes somewhere else. They should have figured that out.