DVR is easily addressed with a Tivo device, as various models support OTA. Plus a Tivo DVR works a *heck* of a lot better than DTVN's DVR at this time.
Commercials? DTVN has lots of commercials, though with an OTA Tivo you can easily skip commercials.
Service quality and channel clarity depends on location. I suppose if you live in the middle of a major urban area you have
@Sevendaymelee's channel count; though even here in the Atlanta suburbs I get far fewer clear channels over the air.
Also,
@Sevendaymelee neglects to mention that a large portion of the OTA channels are home-shopping channels or other crap. Nor does he mention you (typically) don't get any of the "cable" channels you might wish to watch.
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Back in January/February I had more issues that I've had in the past couple months, though to be honest I also got on the beta program so I expected more issue.s
As for the service dropping, that has happened a couple times to me. Checking online as
@SRLMJ23 suggests is a good way to see if it's "you" or the service. I've also had Comcast drop too, even for a whole evening, so let's not try to compare to a non-existent "perfect service".
My biggest gripe is that the on-demand stuff seems to be pretty inconsistent. Some things have full back-libraries (HBO is good for this), and some things just have a couple week's on-demand back library. Some let you skip forward while watching, some do not. Some are also fraught with errors; I tried to catch up on The Orville and gave up since I'd get halfway through an episode and the service took a dump, lost my spot, and wouldn't let me fast-forward to where I'd left off. (show just wasn't interesting enough to fight the crappy on-demand). In contrast, the $5/mo HBO package was great for being able to watch the entire Game of Thrones series with no memorable issues/problems.
The huge advantage for me with this service is we have a vacation place we go to pretty regularly, and so I'm paying for *one* streaming-TV subscription instead of two cable-TV packages.
I'm sticking with DTVN for now, though may try one of the competitors in time.