Rumor is that they are only going to increase the DDA200 on existing customers $5. You should see an $8 charge with a $3 credit.
That would be a very nice rumor if it comes true. Then the price hike would be only $5.00 on the dish dvr advantage. I think that $8.00 is simply OUTRAGEOUS in these economic bad times.
HELL , I thought that the $10.00 increase for hd subs with AEP a couple of years back was just as bad and I down sized to top 250 /hd pack and Hbo/Starz. I also dropped my third 622 receiver.
This year I have down sized again and dropped the premiums entirely. I also dropped my 2nd 722 off of my account and have only one 722 and a new 211k that I swapped at dishdepot.com for my old unused 622 dvr. I now have no dvr fees at all since I added the external hard drive to the 211k. Of course it costed me another $39.99 for the external hard drive ,and I already paid it for the 722 last year.
Next year, I guess I will down size again to just the top 200 dvr advantage to save next years price increase. Charlie keeps on hiking the prices and I keep on dropping my programming. Once the programming runs out I will switch to just ota and just use the dvr plus dvrs from Echostar. I made it for years with no cable or satellite and I could always go back to it.