Thread: YES! 4DTV on W5 almost certain

Originally Posted by johnnynobody

Well, I'm confused about all this stuff about authorizing the 4DTV for the Comcast stuff on W5. I have a DSR922 and I'm subscribed to SyFy on W5. If I understand what I've been reading, I'm not suppose to be able to subscribe to anything on W5. So what's the deal? I asked Skyvision about this but the response I got doesn't address my question.

You said that before and I am wondering how you could be getting the SyFy on W5.
Look like the 922 IS capable of receiving the W5 channels.

Originally Posted by MrFTAMan

You said that before and I am wondering how you could be getting the SyFy on W5.
Look like the 922 IS capable of receiving the W5 channels.

I am getting SyFy on W5 as well, along with several other channels, the 922 is capible of receiving those channels, the problem is it is for now not capible of being authroized by Comcast, and receiving their data stream, once January comes if you want to sub to those channels you will have to do a hard reset, and follow the instructions from SRL/Skyvision on how to set it up to receive that information.
At least this is how I understand it.
But it dosen't realy make sence to me that we will need to do the hard reset, once Moto stops their data stream there should not be any reason for the two data streams to interfear with each other since they both wont be available, I think it is just Moto wanting every one away from the other sats that are up there for what ever reason.
Terry

There are questions that will have to be answered come Jan 1. We will know for sure then. I suspect that all ala-carte will go away and only the 410 packages will be sold for our 922's.

Originally Posted by tvropro

There are questions that will have to be answered come Jan 1. We will know for sure then. I suspect that all ala-carte will go away and only the 410 packages will be sold for our 922's.

And that's one thing that has me a little concerned, in my opinion those packages are almost as bad as Dish, and Direct for what you get, SyFy is probably the channel I watch most, to get that I will have to pay almost $40.00 a month, and I will get a boat load of channels that I DON'T want, to me that is just not acceptable, but like you said we will have to wait and see.
Terry

That's the beauty of those big packages that have "the" channel you want....$$$$$$

Of course even if we can sub next year-c band as we knew it is gone. Still will be better than pizza SD. I will stick with w5 when that time comes.

So.. ONLY the 410 packages will be available? If that is true, does that mean that the cheapest price I will be able to get VH1 Classic is for $34.14 /month?
Skyvision Packages Link

If so, then my C-Band subscription days will be over, and I will be reducing the number of C-Band subs from 18,000 to 17,999.

Listening to Mike on Sat-talk last Friday that is more or less what he was saying for right now. He did say also they also have to get new contracts for everything so maybe we will still have ala-carte. He was saying that with big packages they only need a few tier bits, with ala-carte they need allot more and they cost money. We will have to see. I hate to say it but I get more bang for my buck with DirecTv, well at least for the first year

Originally Posted by Davage

...If that is true, does that mean that the cheapest price I will be able to get VH1 Classic is for $34.14 /month? ...

Maybe! Maybe not!

Not too long ago most of us believed that 4DTV was a total goner! The answer will be known later and hopefully it is pretty good news!

I received a junk mail flyer from charlie yesterday and actually looked at it!

The charlie package that includes VH1 Classic is $64.99 plus tax!!!...

I think that direct pizza is close to charlie in price too... so W5 looks pretty good to me!

NPS's last package prices were getting quite high (plus the uplink fee) that they stunk like pizza! G3 even looked like pizza!

I am a VH1 Classic junkie too but I also watch most of the other channels available in the W5 package.

QUOTE=Dishman Dan;2292075]Maybe! Maybe not!



G3 even looked like pizza!

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Actually DirecTv's SD looks better than NPS G3 does. I had G3 and now Direct SD.

To get VH1 classic with Direct you need Choice Extra. It can be got for $29.99 the first year. I have Choice at $24.99. I can upgrade for $5.00. Direct is giving a free preview of Choice Extra starting on the 15th of this month that goes into Sept. We will be getting a Starz FP also in Sept. Free preview's I forgot what those were. Pizza stole all the perks c band had