I agree, I do NOT want the channels in BB@Home to not be offered. I like those channels and enjoy them today. Dish can still provide those channels as part of one of the other packages or some other way. I am suggesting only that the notion of the BlockBuster name just be retired because it truly is no longer has the value it once did, and only a few people even know that it does still exist--as part of Dish's brand. I have no clue what the point of the BlockBuster name is anymore (at first Dish hailed it as a "family" brand and a name consumers know and trust). Today, it has ZERO value. The content, or the contracts for that content was a boost for Dish, but the name "BlockBuster" Dish so touted as being of great value just failed to be. It is CONFUSING to have BB@Home AND VOD, a difference that today means very little.
I really do not want the channels going in different packages like higher packages such as AT200 or AT250 if that is what you are suggesting. Now that I have the Welcome Pack with it, it is a low price value that keeps me with Dish. It was called Platinum HD or HD Platinum or something like that before. It could go back to that, but what does Platinum suggest? Dish got rid of the Bronze, Silver, Gold, etc. except maybe for Dish America Silver or Dish America Gold. What do you suggest it being called? If Dish paid that much for the Blockbuster name, maybe they should just leave it...Otherwise, it would be money down the drain....I mean I do not know....It could be seen as a failure with the closing of stores......I used to like the one disc at a time option when we had it with AT250. I just do not want the channels to get unbundled. Can't we just leave it alone the way it is?
I remember when Sundance Channel was a part of it on channel 389 (and I believe channel 332 before that) [same time AMC was part of the Welcome Pack....I think AMC Networks messed up all their owned channels with the editing and commercials] along with Fashion TV (on 374), Shorts TV (on 375), and Smithsonian Channel. Even NBA TV and NHL Network were a part of it at the very beginning...I suppose that I am okay with these not being in it since sports usually drive up the costs and I would not watch them all that much (no offense to the sports fans). World Fishing Network was also in HD as I believe someone already mentioned; I remember that this channel sometimes had different programming on the HD and the SD channels. DirecTV I believe calls their add-on package HD Extra Pack (Crime & Investigation HD, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries HD, HDNet Movies, MGM HD, Palladia HD, Sony Movie Channel HD, Smithsonian HD, Universal HD, and ShortsHD) or something like that. Not sure if that is trademarked...I wouldn't think so....Maybe Dish could call it something similar although I would want the same channels in it if it really means that much to change the name if it really causes that much confusion.