Recent content by alcheez

Um, they didn't? Absolute customers are reporting they basically get the equivalent of Turbo HD Gold + Platinum. So, any Absolute customer that has them has a magical Absolute account, much like my magical Turbo Silver account which still somehow gets everything. And really, even if they...

Agreed on both fronts - although if it was Dish's intent from the beginning to give all the HD channels to TurboHD packages, I can't fault them too heavily for saying that - this is part of the risk of being the first to try something. They probably been more proactive in at least approaching...

Indeed. Comcast has a setup that gets them around being required to offer the channel to satellitte companies, and so they don't offer it to them. Apparently they think it's worth more to them in subscribers who will stay with them for the channel than the money they'd get selling it to...

Exactly. The blackout rules don't care whether a local broadcast is available from the TV provider in question, only whether there IS a local broadcast. No satellitte customers in the Phillies blackout area were able to see the game on ESPN last night, because CSN Philly had it, and Comcast...

Yup. You and I are among the few lucky ones on this. Not sure what makes our accounts special.

Why, at this point, would someone have Platinum if they didn't think it was worth $10 a month?

Classic. "I don't care about these channels, so the rest of you are stupid for caring."

I think that's the root of it - I switched from Classic Silver HD to Turbo Silver right after the Turbo packages went publically available to existing subscribers, and I got Fox News HD when it launched and now all the Viacoms. I'm not sure what they have screwed up behind the scenes on my...

I am. They screwed up their initial pricing for TurboHD, at least assuming they had initial visions of continuing to put all HD channels in Turbo packages. What's the gap between a Turbo package and the corresponding Classic + HD package now? Like 15 bucks? And that was after the stiff...

Well, given the channels being added, it was going to be a given that Silver and Gold weren't getting anything more than Bronze. The Absolute thing kind of sucks, however. One question though - back before existing subscribers were (supposed to be) allowed to get Turbo HD, was there a special...

I guess that makes it it official. My account = magic.

Which is to say, they can, but maybe they don't actually KNOW that they can...

Obviously they can, because I've got them all on Turbo... Maybe my account is their test account...

Whatever it is, I'm not complaining. Though the 3 it seems like the rest of you got were actually the 3 I'd most want out of this group anyhow.

Not "all"... my account still seems to be charmed for some reason.