Thread: Renaming packages?

I figured if I asked this in the main forums it would start a flame thread. Not my intention, but I am curious.

What the heck is up with dish "simplifying" the darn packages every year? Name changes and such? Leave it the hell alone.

Originally Posted by msmith198025

I figured if I asked this in the main forums it would start a flame thread. Not my intention, but I am curious.

What the heck is up with dish "simplifying" the darn packages every year? Name changes and such? Leave it the hell alone.

Dish should leave the package names as"America's Top....." because they are!.

Dish is the home of the most confusion. Their packages, and fees, and bill statements are all confusing and complicated.

Hemi posted his bill statement, talk about making a simple thing very complicated.

Originally Posted by msmith198025

I figured if I asked this in the main forums it would start a flame thread. Not my intention, but I am curious.

I think it has much to do with wanting to reconfigure packaging. DIRECTV has done precisely the same thing in the recent past with the transition from the "Total" packages to the "Choice" packages.

Consumers rail on a carrier when they remove a channel, but if the channel is not part of a new package but is grandfathered in the old package, customers may be less uppity.

Originally Posted by harshness

I think it has much to do with wanting to reconfigure packaging. DIRECTV has done precisely the same thing in the recent past with the transition from the "Total" packages to the "Choice" packages.

Consumers rail on a carrier when they remove a channel, but if the channel is not part of a new package but is grandfathered in the old package, customers may be less uppity.

The comparison is not even close to the same. Changing the name from Total to Choice one time in many years, is not the same as changing packages, names, and structuring every single year, while not allowing subs of grandfathered packages to add any new programming.

I currently have Total Choice plus, which is EXACTLY the same as Choice Extra. The only difference is the name and the price (I pay $3 less). I can still add extra service and packages, just like Choice Extra subs, without changing my grandfathered package. This was the only primary package CHANGE since I have been with them.

Originally Posted by DodgerKing

The comparison is not even close to the same. Changing the name from Total to Choice one time in many years, is not the same as changing packages, names, and structuring every single year, while not allowing subs of grandfathered packages to add any new programming.

Before the "medal" packages, were the AT packages. DISH only changed the name when the channel count changed significantly. I'm not buying your argument in the least.

I currently have Total Choice plus, which is EXACTLY the same as Choice Extra. The only difference is the name and the price (I pay $3 less). I can still add extra service and packages, just like Choice Extra subs, without changing my grandfathered package. This was the only primary package CHANGE since I have been with them.

My understanding is that TC+ is not exactly the same as CHOICE Extra. I think I read where there have been a couple of channels in TC+ that aren't in CHOICE Extra making the pricing disparity even more special

http://www.satelliteguys.us/directv-...tra-plans.html.

Originally Posted by harshness

Before the "medal" packages, were the AT packages. DISH only changed the name when the channel count changed significantly. I'm not buying your argument in the least.My understanding is that TC+ is not exactly the same as CHOICE Extra. I think I read where there have been a couple of channels in TC+ that aren't in CHOICE Extra making the pricing disparity even more special

http://www.satelliteguys.us/directv-...tra-plans.html.

Did you even bother to read any of the post in the thread you just linked? There is currently no difference, other than name and price, between the two packages.