We have DirecTV also - aside from having to clean off the dish of snow (usually when it's wet sloppy snow) and maybe once or twice losing signal during a nasty storm, it's great. Not too pleased about the Versus thing, but maybe it'll get worked out.

We had Comcast a few years ago (4, almost 5?) and it was actually worse during storms. However it was wired, transmitted, or whatever, whenever it was windy or stormy or snowy we'd get pixelated TV or it would just cut out. Our new place didn't have anything other than crappy cable (only a few digital channels, no HD) so we went DirecTV.

My only complaint is the add-on costs, it seems excessive for extra receivers, HDTV, DVR, etc. If you only have one TV, not a big deal, but we have 3 adults and a teenager in our house so it's not really an option to only have one source of diversion, and we are addicted to HD and DVR.