My wife pretty much convinced me to stay the course for right now. I had bought a used Tivo Series 2 w/lifetime for only $50 and I was going to leverage the multi-sub discount and pick-up a Premiere that Tivo is currently selling for $59.99 at their site and then move to our local cableco. Since we get our phone and internet from them it would be a lot less expensive due to the bundle and the only leased equipment would be a cable card and a dta for the two Tivo's. But she really didn't want to lose some channels and the Dish two tv dvr. Oh well, we now have a ota dvr for the bedroom set that isn't connected to Dish. I did do the "cancel BB@Home" trick and now have it for only $5 for the next 6 months.
DISH Price Increase 1/17/2013 (UPDATED!)
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My wife pretty much convinced me to stay the course for right now. I had bought a used Tivo Series 2 w/lifetime for only $50 and I was going to leverage the multi-sub discount and pick-up a Premiere that Tivo is currently selling for $59.99 at their site and then move to our local cableco. Since we get our phone and internet from them it would be a lot less expensive due to the bundle and the only leased equipment would be a cable card and a dta for the two Tivo's. But she really didn't want to lose some channels and the Dish two tv dvr. Oh well, we now have a ota dvr for the bedroom set that isn't connected to Dish. I did do the "cancel BB@Home" trick and now have it for only $5 for the next 6 months.
Not Huge in the big picture of things for savings, but recently when reviewing my comcast bill for Internet I saw that since I have phone service with them I don't need to keep the limited basic that I dont watch for 21.00 a month to keep my "discount" for Internet. Happy that I get to keep 21.00 instead of giving it to comcast, which helps for the little bump I will be getting with dish.
I know no one likes prices increase, but since I have phone and Internet service I get the insert for there upcoming increases and overall monthly costs Wow is all I have to say, have more then one tv and want a DVR
I know no one likes prices increase, but since I have phone and Internet service I get the insert for there upcoming increases and overall monthly costs Wow is all I have to say, have more then one tv and want a DVR
Not Huge in the big picture of things for savings, but recently when reviewing my comcast bill for Internet I saw that since I have phone service with them I don't need to keep the limited basic that I dont watch for 21.00 a month to keep my "discount" for Internet. Happy that I get to keep 21.00 instead of giving it to comcast, which helps for the little bump I will be getting with dish.
I know no one likes prices increase, but since I have phone and Internet service I get the insert for there upcoming increases and overall monthly costs Wow is all I have to say, have more then one tv and want a DVR
I had to really fight them over that basic fee. After threatening to seriously cancel they finally changed their story and dropped that fee and I still kept my discounted Internet rate.
Well unfortunately looks like w the increasing prices. It is time to move on. FiOS is looking better and better...will be checking them this week. Dish is pricing me out of their system..after nearly 12 years as a faithful customer, it looks like it is time to move on
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w the increasing prices. It is time to move on. FiOS is looking better and better...will be checking them this week. Dish is pricing me out of their system..after nearly 12 years as a faithful customer, it looks like it is time to move onSent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
This is the problem with sports. The bidding is ridiculous and we pay the price.
Then there are so many channel placeholder spots where channels like AMC pretty much are place holders for four or five hours of original programming, but they want to charge as if their programming is 24/7.
We have let sports and entertainment costs get out of hand. AEP monthly cost is still less than a ticket to a pro football game, a Broadway play, a rock concert. Multi-million sports salaries, per movie fees, tv show per episode costs, and even newscaster salaries are common. When the lowest paid baseball pro in the majors makes more than the President of the US, crazy time has arrived. Many of us are paying more for our cell phones than for our TV programming and the visual and audio quality stinks compared to HD TV with 5.1 surround sound. Take the family to a movie theater or restaurant and see $100 dissapear fast.
We like to moan and groan, but we have become a spoiled, weak society. There is no strength in the majority to boycott or strike any more. I am just like that majority and roll over and pay the piper. We have forgot how to entertain ourselves without paying for it.
We like to moan and groan, but we have become a spoiled, weak society. There is no strength in the majority to boycott or strike any more. I am just like that majority and roll over and pay the piper. We have forgot how to entertain ourselves without paying for it.
Several months a go we decided to cut the cord. I put up an antenna, we have a couple of Rokus, a life time sub to PlayOn, and subs to Netflix and HuluPlus. Havent cut the cord yet...but i can tell you most of what i watch is available on ROKU. I will miss baseball but unless the redsox make a significant improvement radio is good enough. Given that we may watch 5-10 of the non bbroadcast chanels not sobsure that $70.00 a month is worth the price....and now an increase. Im ready hope myvwife is
Looks like I'll drop Showtime to offset the price increase. I may drop a receiver as well and just use one tv for streaming, and the other will get the 722k. That'll cut out $17 per month in receiver fees.
And it is the programmers and providers that are the greedy ones If Dish doesn't includes BB@Home and Sportspack in the AEP they will lose alot of subscribers to that pack and imo the Dish price increases are a little higher than Directv but close
If Dish doesn't includes BB@Home and Sportspack in the AEP they will lose alot of subscribers to that pack and imo the Dish price increases are a little higher than Directv but close whitewolf8214 said:Dish price increases are a little higher than Directv but close
From that article, it certainly seems so. 4.5% average is certainly less than what we are hearing Dish increases will be. Maybe after this, they will be the same price since they were so close beforehand.
We've seen paperwork like Scott had posted in the past. IMO it is accurate & a pipe dream to think bb@home or sports pack would be included or it would have been stated otherwise.
We vote with our wallets...........As long as we pay these outrageous fees the providers will continually dump increases on us year after year.
We vote with our wallets...........As long as we pay these outrageous fees the providers will continually dump increases on us year after year.
I have a feeling the answer is probably that we will be "grandfathered in" until we make changes but I have noticed on the site that Dish America Silver or Gold will no longer be available (and only Dish America will be) soon. For those of us on Dish America Silver (currently on Gold but likely will drop as the channels I watch are all in Silver) are we simply grandfathered in and fine so long as we make no changes?
