Price increases in February 2014 (UPDATED!)

[bobsie]

You don't have much of a fight here since it is worded in the contract you signed that they have the right to change programming and prices at any time. Now, what you should do is repeat this rant to Dish when the increase comes and maybe they will give you some monthly credits on your bill until your contract is up in order to make up for the increase.

The $5 increase for the second Hopper will not affect you right away. It looks like Dish is going to gives credits out for that for a while yet.

Yes, I know what the contract says. I was just lamenting the fact that I feel it is wrong.

 

[bobsie]

Notice the wording in the attachment :-

http://www.satelliteguys.us/attachment.php?attachmentid=93586&d=1387647023

Customers with an additional Hopper receiver activated prior to May 22, 2013 will receive a $5 credit for 18 months to help transition to the new Additional Receiver Fee.

At least, that's how I see it, hopefully I'm wrong.

My question is this: I signed up for the original Hopper in Dec 2012. I upgraded to HWS in October 2013. Do I still qualify for the discount in that I have been using two Hoppers since last year?

 

[bobsie]

Those who are in the first year of their contract get the price protection.

So, since I just started a new 2-year agreement in October 2013, I won't be subject to the changes until October 2014?

 

[primestar31]

I'm really considering dropping Blockbuster@home to combat the price increase. There's a few channels I'd miss, but I only have America's 250 and BB@home, with a single VIP722k (owned) with paperless billing, and I pay $92.41 a month now. Another $5 price jump, and it's finally close to breaking the bank. I haven't had a pay raise in 5 years, yet everything keeps going UP.

 

[GaryPen]

I'm really considering dropping Blockbuster@home to combat the price increase. There's a few channels I'd miss, but I only have America's 250 and BB@home, with a single VIP722k (owned) with paperless billing, and I pay $92.41 a month now. Another $5 price jump, and it's finally close to breaking the bank. I haven't had a pay raise in 5 years, yet everything keeps going UP.

If you drop it using the My Programming page at My Dish, it will offer BB@H for $5/mo (50% off) for six months.

 

[Mr Tony]

So, since I just started a new 2-year agreement in October 2013, I won't be subject to the changes until October 2014?

folks who started dish and are in their initial contract, not folks who upgraded equipment and got a contract.

 

[primestar31]

If you drop it using the My Programming page at My Dish, it will offer BB@H for $5/mo (50% off) for six months.

Cool, if that works, I'll at least break-even on the price increase for 6 more months. Thanks!

 

[catnap1972]

I'm really considering dropping Blockbuster@home to combat the price increase. There's a few channels I'd miss, but I only have America's 250 and BB@home, with a single VIP722k (owned) with paperless billing, and I pay $92.41 a month now. Another $5 price jump, and it's finally close to breaking the bank. I haven't had a pay raise in 5 years, yet everything keeps going UP.

Same exact boat I'm in.

 

[Deadlocked]

BB@H is worthless, outside of EPIX, if you don't take advantage of the on demand content.


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[foghorn2]

BB@H is worthless, outside of EPIX, if you don't take advantage of the on demand content.


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To you its worthless, for me I find the movies more suitable to my taste and the on demand selection is pretty good. Love Epix-Drive in and the BB package to me is way better than HBO/SHO ect.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Being senior citizens and retired , we find ourselves having more time to watch TV. So we have reduced our costs in other areas to allow us to have the best TV service. We have stopped going to the movies. We use to go once a week and spend with refreshments about $30 per week . So that saves us about $120 per month. We just wait for the movies to show up in our premium packages. We also fired our landline phone company and went to an in home cellular phone service. That saves another $60 per month. We changed our cell phone service by dropping data and text packages and going to a basic cell phone . We save another $60 per month. We communicate with friends and relatives via phone, email, and social networks via the internet. We also have stopped going to expensive sporting events and concerts. Dropping season tickets to the local college team has saved us over $800 and we did not miss seeing a game this year. They were all on TV. When the college coach started to get paid 5 times what the University Chancellor receives , we just had had enough. We use to go to about 4 concerts per year. However, when those ticket prices went above $100 per seat we stopped. There is another $800 per year savings. So we have saved more than enough to cover our Dish TV service.

It's a shame you have to give up so much in order to afford your monthly DISH tv service.

But seriously though, I can relate to your priorities. I too love my hoppers and DISH service. I have changed a lot of other things in my life in order to keep DISH. As for movies at the theater, I don't give them up, because I mow my neighbors yard and get $30.00 every two weeks for it in the spring and summer months , so I use the extra money from that to go to the movies for the new blockbuster movie releases. But without the extra money I wouldn't go to the movies either. The only way I would get any premium movies would be at 1/2 price promos that DISH has been so generous with this last couple of years. I'll never pay full price for them other wise.

 

[Deadlocked]

To you its worthless, for me I find the movies more suitable to my taste and the on demand selection is pretty good. Love Epix-Drive in and the BB package to me is way better than HBO/SHO ect.

EPIX and the on demand content is great but the rests just a channels a lot of people don't watch. If they merged it with Homeland it would be better.


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[primestar31]

Here's the biggest point most people miss: It ISN'T the particular channels you might want, it's the actual CONTENT/PROGRAMS. There's lots of ways now to get the content you must have, legally without paying, OR paying less. A lot of tv shows have the last few new eps on the networks webpage FREE. A lot of programming is shown on 5-10 different channels that might already be in your base program sub. So much stuff is repeated over and over again during any particular week.

There's too much choice out there, and more everyday. Why just keep paying and paying higher and higher prices? There's just a point where many more people should say ENOUGH! Get enough people to do that, and maybe we'd all be better off when broadcasters wake up to the possibility of a quantum change, and figure out a way to do it better and cheaper.

 

[dishfan82]

It's the live sports that keeps me around. I could drop dish and save 80-100 a month if I wanted but my wife watches bravo and you must have a subscription with a provider in order to watch their content online or maybe they pulled it off their website all together. Would I miss tv? Yes! Could I live without tv? Yes!!

 

[lucky86]

I think part of the reason people continue to be willing to pay increasing rates for services like this is because of ease of use. While I know how to find content online and it isn't that difficult, I would much rather come home from work and plop down on my couch and just flip on the TV and watch what I want. I don't want to have to pull out my laptop or phone and go to a website and play the content on a much smaller screen etc. Sure, I could hook my laptop up to my TV and watch that way, but again, thats a pain to do. The fact that I can just walk in and grab 1 remote and access all the content I want within seconds makes it worth it to me.

 

[Scherrman]

Here's the biggest point most people miss: It ISN'T the particular channels you might want, it's the actual CONTENT/PROGRAMS. There's lots of ways now to get the content you must have, legally without paying, OR paying less. A lot of tv shows have the last few new eps on the networks webpage FREE. A lot of programming is shown on 5-10 different channels that might already be in your base program sub. So much stuff is repeated over and over again during any particular week.

There's too much choice out there, and more everyday. Why just keep paying and paying higher and higher prices? There's just a point where many more people should say ENOUGH! Get enough people to do that, and maybe we'd all be better off when broadcasters wake up to the possibility of a quantum change, and figure out a way to do it better and cheaper.

While that may be true I still want to watch my sports live and I do not want to watch all of my TV on a laptop or tablet. I do enjoy being able to watch programs on my laptop and tablet but I would hate for that to be my main source for TV. I know I can hook it up to my TV also and that may work fine, most times. I do not want to rely solely on my internet connection for my TV viewing. Internet goes out far more than my Dish ever has.

 

[mike123abc]

If "sports" were to decide there was more money to be made streaming over the internet than tying up with channels, they would drop channels. But, as it is now, there is a far bigger market for broadcasting via network or cable than streaming over the internet. Unlike other shows which have figured out that you can sell it once to a channel, then to iTunes/Vudu/Amazon, and then again to Netflix/Amazon Prime, sports pretty much is useless if not live.

If the cord cutter population gets bigger than the cable population, then perhaps "sports" would shift.

 

[peggy97850]

And while I do have internet that streams fairly well, not everyone has that available - mine does go out every now & then so I would hate to be without BOTH tv & Internet. No free OTA here so if I want tv I have to pay for it, very little choice.

One advantage to having Charter internet is having EPIX for free.

 

[TNGTony]

Isn't just about all professional and college sports available on live streaming? Few if any are legally free, but NFL, MLB, NBA all have live streaming packages.

 

[tomcrown1]

I think part of the reason people continue to be willing to pay increasing rates for services like this is because of ease of use. While I know how to find content online and it isn't that difficult, I would much rather come home from work and plop down on my couch and just flip on the TV and watch what I want. I don't want to have to pull out my laptop or phone and go to a website and play the content on a much smaller screen etc. Sure, I could hook my laptop up to my TV and watch that way, but again, thats a pain to do. The fact that I can just walk in and grab 1 remote and access all the content I want within seconds makes it worth it to me.

Two words Apple TV and chromcast. With these devices you can wireless stream the content to your tv