2015 Dish Price Increase
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I wish I could say nice joke but I fear you are serious.
Just addressing two things, by law DISH must take the channels off when out of contract and the programmer tells them to. I'm still hoping I'm missing the joke in your posts somehow.
Second the value of stock is not directly related to what a company can charge for services. In fact many times stocks rise on speculation or world events even though a company may not at the time be showing much profit. In the case of DISH the fact that they are making inroads to other forms of business such as online and owning valuable cellular frequencies has an effect on the value of the stock.
surprised mitchflorida isn't ranting again considering DTV is raising their rates $4-7 in February...
The one thing I find surprising about the DIRECTV increase is the additional outlets are going up 50 cents per extra outlet. The rest of it seems to be the norm. (well except for the sports prices) 
The one thing I find surprising about the DIRECTV increase is the additional outlets are going up 50 cents per extra outlet. The rest of it seems to be the norm. (well except for the sports prices)
Just another "charge because we can fee increase!"
So if DISH has given all the increases for the year I will be saving even more. Going from about $180 in savings a year to just shy of $200 savings. I see there are both higher RSN fees and additional areas now have RSN fees with Direct. In Ct where I am from $3 surcharge to $3.63 and in Fl it would be a new surcharge of $2.17 And Direct is apparently raising receiver fees. (50 cents)
I encourage people especially with VIP receivers to compare what they will be paying with DISH to what it would be with Direct TV.
As I said before all of it is too high, but DISH indeed is considerably less in many cases.
Thank-you Charlie for taking a hard stance on RSN's and prices in general.
And we now know why NY subscribers with no RSN's are paying the same package prices with DISH as other subscribers. DISH and Direct have very similar package prices, in fact DISH is just slightly less generally. HOWEVER Direct Tv has a surcharge to all those subscribers of $5.50.
I encourage people especially with VIP receivers to compare what they will be paying with DISH to what it would be with Direct TV.
As I said before all of it is too high, but DISH indeed is considerably less in many cases.
Thank-you Charlie for taking a hard stance on RSN's and prices in general.
And we now know why NY subscribers with no RSN's are paying the same package prices with DISH as other subscribers. DISH and Direct have very similar package prices, in fact DISH is just slightly less generally. HOWEVER Direct Tv has a surcharge to all those subscribers of $5.50.
I compared what I have now, on the DTV website, and after the first 12 months, I would be paying about $12-15 more with DTV after these increases take place
Call up DirecTV and see what specials (Discounts] they have to take off your bill I do it all the time and I usually save 40- 60 dollars off my bill and I have Premier Pack!!
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So if DISH has given all the increases for the year I will be saving even more. Going from about $180 in savings a year to just shy of $200 savings. I see there are both higher RSN fees and additional areas now have RSN fees with Direct. In Ct where I am from $3 surcharge to $3.63 and in Fl it would be a new surcharge of $2.17 And Direct is apparently raising receiver fees. (50 cents)
I encourage people especially with VIP receivers to compare what they will be paying with DISH to what it would be with Direct TV.
As I said before all of it is too high, but DISH indeed is considerably less in many cases.
Thank-you Charlie for taking a hard stance on RSN's and prices in general.
And we now know why NY subscribers with no RSN's are paying the same package prices with DISH as other subscribers. DISH and Direct have very similar package prices, in fact DISH is just slightly less generally. HOWEVER Direct Tv has a surcharge to all those subscribers of $5.50.
You made me think to follow you, and to understand about DTV RSNs. I have no interest in sports.
Call up DirecTV and see what specials (Discounts] they have to take off your bill I do it all the time and I usually save 40- 60 dollars off my bill and I have Premier Pack!!
No doubt many could get that, however I too can get occasional discounts with DISH on top of paying $200 less than Direct.
Soon maybe we can take an equity loan against our properties to fun subscription tv. The neighbors would be saying "Look....he is rich, has subscription tv".
Can anyone confirm (Attn Dirt) if there is any change to the welcome pack?
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Until they do. TWC charges something like $25/month for a (2-tuner) DVR. Their whole home setup costs almost $50 for a DVR and 1 client. And it is still only 2-tuners! They're supposed to be coming out with something better soon, but I expect it will cost even more.
