Hmmm. They need to update the programming page to movie pass 1, 2 or 3 at $10, $15 and $20. Would make it a lot easier. Maybe the DIRT folks can look into this and tell us what to do.
DISH / Blockbuster Announcement Discussion Thread!
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ohioankev,
Thank you for that info! That was indeed very helpful and reduces my stress level!
That's good to know and I think I'll wait till a little later in the day, then proceed with merging the 2 accounts.Thanks again,
Ghpr13
Thanks for the reply - but I checked again and it is not there - I'll check again later
What the deal with the 722 updates? I see Blockbuster Movie Pass on 2 of my 722s. Figures, the one that's networked still shows Platinum.
Shows I have L677, but menu 3 still shows Platinum.
** Ended up with advanced tech support in online chat. They sent another authorization signal to my 722, had me hard power cycle. I can now see
BB Movie Pass in the DVR menu.
Shows I have L677, but menu 3 still shows Platinum.
** Ended up with advanced tech support in online chat. They sent another authorization signal to my 722, had me hard power cycle. I can now see
BB Movie Pass in the DVR menu.
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I was under the impression that some streaming would include BB content. I think that was implied. I don't see anything on the 722k with BB content, it is "just" Platinum content. That would be a bit disappointing, but still having disc in the mail content for "free" is a nice addition.Does anyone know if the will start streaming movies from Blockbuster or is it only streaming from the premium channels? Thanks for any help
I just checked my 722K and it now has the Moviepass listed. However, it still shows 3087 available like it did last night when it was labeled HD Platinum.
Looks like everybody who has Platinum for free has to pay $10 more if we want movie pass . I don't see why we should we be penalized for taking a freebie
Yes it the same pattern i have seen in my two years with dish .
over hyped announcements , a product that is clunky and two or three years behind the technology of every one else .
Its too bad a properly working plan like this would be a very good reason to have dish and it would have saved some money for me but unless they improve it not much use for me
I'm having a great time trying to increase my plan back to two at a time (or maybe 3 at a time) Am I correct that It's basically Dish Plat. & 1 Disc at a time for $10 then each additional disc is $5. Right now i'm getting the run around, the faq says to call dish (1-800-333-3474) and when I did that they told me to call blockbuster and gave me the number.
Here is the information that blockbuster 877# gave to me
That on Oct 3rd(my billing date) I would be billed $0.00 because billing will be handled by dish network this contradicts the information supplied by me five minutes earlier by Dish Networks 800# which told me since I already had a blockbuster account I would be billed by blockbuster after I explained that I linked my blockbuster account with dish network.
Also blockbuster 877# was not able to upgrade my queue for me. Dish network has to handle that option. (Yeah duh! the FAQ says call Dish Network Customer Service .. heh. Typical Dish Network runaround.)
Just going to wait on the DIRT team for clearer answers since I don't have to fear a repercussion from Blockbuster.com about having the second disc at my house with only a one at a time plan. (Blockbuster 877# clarified that for me)
Here is the information that blockbuster 877# gave to me
That on Oct 3rd(my billing date) I would be billed $0.00 because billing will be handled by dish network this contradicts the information supplied by me five minutes earlier by Dish Networks 800# which told me since I already had a blockbuster account I would be billed by blockbuster after I explained that I linked my blockbuster account with dish network.
Also blockbuster 877# was not able to upgrade my queue for me. Dish network has to handle that option. (Yeah duh! the FAQ says call Dish Network Customer Service .. heh. Typical Dish Network runaround.)
Just going to wait on the DIRT team for clearer answers since I don't have to fear a repercussion from Blockbuster.com about having the second disc at my house with only a one at a time plan. (Blockbuster 877# clarified that for me)
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You are correct, and Id just wait for the DIRT group to respond. No movies will ship till Monday anyways.
Well, I'm confused about this streaming stuff. I see movie pass on my 722 but, there movies under that menu that say they cost money to watch. So, where do we find this Netflix like service because Netflix has never tried to charge me to watch some movies.
I was hopping for a completely separate menu interface for this movie pass thing, mixing it in with the current PPV on-demand stuff seems like a really dumb idea.
I was hopping for a completely separate menu interface for this movie pass thing, mixing it in with the current PPV on-demand stuff seems like a really dumb idea.
Lets just hope that it's just growing pains right now and they need to short out some bugs for the merging to be complete. After all it's not even been 24hrs. But I do agree that if Dish had plans to make this offer with BB, they should have tried their best to have everything operational, and a smooth merger of the two. That part does get frustrating.
Ghpr13
Basically, adding movies will be updated to the website soon. As we all know, from channel adds to package changes, Dish is never up early in the morning to get things going at the crack of dawn. I'm going to check this afternoon about adding a second disc. Also, I just dropped Netflix to the streaming only package, and I'll be saving $10/month having two discs with the Movie Pass and Netflix streaming than I did with just Netflix streaming + 2 Blu-Ray discs at a time. Thanks Dish for changing the Platinum package to Movie Pass, and switching all the subs over automatically.
Still no BBMP on my 722k. Under Dish Platinum, the only "channels" to filter on are:
If you have the Block Buster Movie Pass, do you see more? I was thinking that with this deal we might see more options available.
Tested streaming of one of the Starz movies in HD. Quality looked pretty good. Starz is playing Tron tonight on their normal channel, and I see it is in the Platinum area as well. So I'll record both and see how the quality compares. My 722 is connected to the internet via a 801.11N router with a 271 Mbps 5GHz connection to my main router which is connected to the internet via a cable internet bridge and a cable connection that is "up to 12Mbps". If I remember, I'll watch the router status next time I stream something to see what it is using for bandwidth.
- Encore
- Epix
- HDNet
- HDNet Movies
- MGM HD
- MoviePlex
- Pixl
- Sony Movie Channel
- Starz
- Sundance
If you have the Block Buster Movie Pass, do you see more? I was thinking that with this deal we might see more options available.
Tested streaming of one of the Starz movies in HD. Quality looked pretty good. Starz is playing Tron tonight on their normal channel, and I see it is in the Platinum area as well. So I'll record both and see how the quality compares. My 722 is connected to the internet via a 801.11N router with a 271 Mbps 5GHz connection to my main router which is connected to the internet via a cable internet bridge and a cable connection that is "up to 12Mbps". If I remember, I'll watch the router status next time I stream something to see what it is using for bandwidth.
You can, but the only "Free Stuff" is basically all the Dish Platinum (now labeled Blockbuster Movie Pass) & TV Show content. All the blockbuster movie pass is to any dish subscriber who had the PlatinumHD package is a physical disc rental medium.
When the kinks are worked out it will be great for me. I was a Platinum subscriber paying $10 a month, and a blockbuster.com subscriber on the 2 disc at a time dvd plan $14.99, it looks like I could save $5 once the kinks are worked out and get 3 discs out at a time.
On top of that I can just not join Qwikster saving me more $$ while keeping my netflix streaming account.
