How do I get out of my cable contract with Direct Tv?

I live in an apartment and my lease is up in February 2012. I want cable but I cant sign a contract because they are all 24 month agreements. Can I use a Direct Tv box my parents have and just get them to hook it up here? Someone said I could do that...

Okay here is the deal I have Dish Network Box downstairs which makes my tv in living room and bedroom work. Dish is such a ripoff i have 4 months left on contract but ws told if i renewed my 2 yr agreement i could lease another dual box for free. Okay...

Hello! I just moved into a new apartment a few weeks ago and I hooked up my TV to watch the local news and ended up having cable TV including HBO, Cinemax, etc. Cable TV is not included in my rent. I asked a few friends (a police man and a lawyer) their...

Is ther one tv cable or satellite company in Houston tx that I can get their service for only one year agreement? I used to have directv and I only had the contract with them for one ...show more

I was resently told by a salesperson that if we purchase a new HDTV tv (the particular one we were looking at was Toshiba Renza 720p) that regular basic cable will not work properly with this TV. He said that the image would be in a letterbox and look...

I currently have a cable box, but my TV has a built in tuner so I was wondering if I could get rid of my box and directly connect the coaxial cable to the TV. My question is, will I be able to see all the channels that I would normally have be able to...

I have had standard DirecTV for over a year and a half and my contract expires in December. I finally purchased an HD TV and so I tried to upgrade. Apparently the HD satellite signals are in a different location than the standard ones and my home does...

not talking about that MOD piece of Sheizz. I'm talking about Cable TV with discovery , CNN and so on. if it is not possible to get these two services from the same company then seperately would be okay. what ever is cheaper actually. but I guess I dont...