Rob don't fear Direct TV.
I have had it.
I sell it.
And if you got clearview of southeast or southwest sky (I forget which) you most likely will neve have a problem unless snow covers the entire dish.
Or shell out an extra 15 bucks for a dish cover.
Your only problem would be if Cablevision is also your ISP.
Which I don't think it is because u can't host a web site off of it.
But then again I know you CAN host a site with so.........
that problem being the cost of Optimum Online going up to 50 bucks.