Dish Programming Changes (Effective August 1st)

[vtjman]

What's the DVR advantage? Sorry, I'm a new subscriber as of July 4th

DVR Advantage is the plan mentioned in the beginning of this post, it basically allowed you to bundle your local channels in HD and one DVR fee into your basic package. Initially it saved you a few dollars from not bundling, but now I think it is down to a $.98 savings. BUT a good feature is that the dvr advantage pack gave you a discount for the more premium packs you added on, 2 was $22, 3 is $31, 4 is $40, so on. Also the HD pack could be counted as a "premium pack" and so could adding the AT 250 pack (gold pack). This way even if you only subscribed to HBO and Showtime, if you have Dish HD you would get the 3 premium pack discount and it would only cost you $31 instead of $10 (dish HD) + $15.99 (HBO) + $12.99 (Sho).



Wow after typing all that I realize how convoluted this crap is.

[tomcrown1]

Dish marketing department needs to go!!! These folks are idiots. The best way to sell dish is KISS. Dish should only have four packages and each package does include HD.

If dish does not keep it simple they will continue to loss customers to Direct TV OR CABLE, which has simply programs.

[PHXHoward]

AEP never seemed like a good deal to me because Cinemax is available for a penny. It seems to be bundled into AEP at full price. Am I missing something?

Classic Gold 57.99 + 50 (HD, DVR/Locals, HBO, Showtime, Starz) + .01 (Cinemax) = 108
AEP 97.98 + 20 (HD, DVR/Locals) = 117.98

I wonder how it will work out with the new prices?

[empiretc]

i'm waiting to find out

[TheFid2]

DVR Advantage is the plan mentioned in the beginning of this post, it basically allowed you to bundle your local channels in HD and one DVR fee into your basic package. Initially it saved you a few dollars from not bundling, but now I think it is down to a $.98 savings. BUT a good feature is that the dvr advantage pack gave you a discount for the more premium packs you added on, 2 was $22, 3 is $31, 4 is $40, so on. Also the HD pack could be counted as a "premium pack" and so could adding the AT 250 pack (gold pack). This way even if you only subscribed to HBO and Showtime, if you have Dish HD you would get the 3 premium pack discount and it would only cost you $31 instead of $10 (dish HD) + $15.99 (HBO) + $12.99 (Sho).

Wow after typing all that I realize how convoluted this crap is.

How do you take advantage of this?

[Rob052067]

I should probably save some money and just give up the premium channels anyway. I can always catch there good series programs on DVD thru my Netflix rentals. I rarely watch movies on the premium channels, but they do have great series (HBO and Showtime, anyway).

[TheFid2]

figured it out.

Upgraded to Silver now. I don't really care about any of the Platinum channels. I had them on Time Warner for about a month. Realized they're from a time when there were barely and HD channels at all and a lot of their worth was purely novelty

[M Sparks]

• PlatinumHD Add-On No Longer Available – Effective August 1, 2009, the $10.00/mo. PlatinumHD add-on package will no longer be offered to new or existing customers upgrading to HD. Existing customers subscribing to the PlatinumHD add-on through July 31, 2009 may continue to receive the PlatinumHD add-on package until they elect to change their programming.

I called it.

And I don't see why everyone is so confused. If anything, they are simplifying things quite a bit. Their marketing plan just went from an F to a D+.

[DodgerKing]

no habla dish-panol

[mitchflorida]

I'm betting that the new HD + Platinum pkg that is now $10 a month will cause people to change their plans. Knowing Charlie, he will jack up the fee to $12 next March and you will have lost your HBO or Showtime discount.

Can someone explain to me how the DVR fee is being changed, or is it staying the same????