Will be interesting to see if the strategy pays off in the long run.... I could see Dish offering deeper discounts on other premiums to offset this and stop the bleeding..
$10 HBO Ending ?
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Will be interesting to see if the strategy pays off in the long run.... I could see Dish offering deeper discounts on other premiums to offset this and stop the bleeding..
Wow yes, they are not the first company to tempt people with low prices.
The same sentence I said that I like Dish so not ready to switch. Building customer loyalty like that is at least as valuable as the competition’s short term price cuts.
Honestly, who cares about live HBO unless you are watching a live sports event? Watch any other show or movie VOD and you never have to miss the beginning. HBO has tons of programming that is on HBO GO which never plays on the various linear channels. Netflix has zero live channels.
I had rather have the live feeds.
I am sure there are still several million viewers that feel the same.
I like to be able to flip through channels and see what is “on” without having to pick something from a list.
It is very nice to have on demand content, but I think having both is better.
If it keeps the price down I wouldn’t care it’s only two channels. As long as you have HBO east you can get all the series tv. I can remember in the 80s on cable ,when there was only one channel of HBO , Showtime , Cinemax and The Movie Channel.
It does sound like the call I got from Comcast last week. FOR ONLY $99 YOU GET...for two years. As in they announce to the level of a carnival worker what you get, then mumble for two years. I'd like to know what I get after the two years, for what price, which is why I haven't jumped ship from Dish. Not that I ever won't jump ship, just that I have been content to this point in time.
I can remember when HBO scrambled in ‘86. Seems like it was $12.95 per month back then for 2 channels. It’s no wonder everybody had a 3 Musketeers VCII back then. When you put that in perspective it makes the $15 not seem so bad.
Not everybody had one. I'm proud to say we never used or sold a pirate board, card or anything else.
Except more channels does not necessarily mean more content, but roughly the same amount of content spread out and repeated among more channels to make it look like more.
We had Continental Cablevision in Ohio in 1986. My dad picked up a few cable filters at the Hamvention in Dayton. Those filters unscrambled HBO and the Disney Channel for us. Back then, Disney Channel was a nice premium service that aired a lot of movies, not what it is today!
I can remember Disney back in those days too, it was a great channel.
Got the tablo working great now and figured out what was causing the judder . The Amazon 4k firestick with HDR doesn't play well with Tablo. I looked it up on the internet and there are cases of the 4k firestick not working well for last few years. So I switched to a new Roku stick and it looks great now. NO judder . Interestingly the older firesticks for just hd , work fine with Tablo. So now I cut the 12.00 cost of locals off my bill for ever. This 4 tuner ota dvr works similar to what you have with DISH. I get 2 weeks of guide for ALL my channels and Subchannels that DISH could never seem to manage. I can now watch the ota stations on my I pad or phone away from home or on any tv in my house with a media device that supports Tablo.
I also decided that FLEX pack is cheaper for what we watch a month, than either Directv now or Sling tv. There are too many drawbacks to both services when it comes to pricing and the number of streams you can have at the same time. Directv has two streams but you can add a third for $5.00 more. Drawback is the channels my wife has to have would push the bill higher than I want to pay and their cloud dvr only allows 20 hours . SLing tv has a weird combination of Orange and Blue sling and blue sling channels only have one stream and orange has two. But they do allow 50 hours of cloud dvr.
As for HBO I decided I am paying over $15.00 for Netflix each month so I can afford to pay the same for HBO Now. Don't even need a dvr because the app allows all series and movies to be played on demand. So now my bill is around $62.00 with fees. I have also thought about trading in my Hopper 3 for a Wally to my online retailer and then I an eliminate the $15.00 dvr fee and the $7.00 additional reciever fee or $22.00 a month. I already paid the $40.00 one time fee for dvr software years ago and I have an external hard drive just sitting here. That should give me some buffer against the enternal yearly price hikes. The best part I no longer have to worry about the Locals going up in price any more.
I also decided that FLEX pack is cheaper for what we watch a month, than either Directv now or Sling tv. There are too many drawbacks to both services when it comes to pricing and the number of streams you can have at the same time. Directv has two streams but you can add a third for $5.00 more. Drawback is the channels my wife has to have would push the bill higher than I want to pay and their cloud dvr only allows 20 hours . SLing tv has a weird combination of Orange and Blue sling and blue sling channels only have one stream and orange has two. But they do allow 50 hours of cloud dvr.
As for HBO I decided I am paying over $15.00 for Netflix each month so I can afford to pay the same for HBO Now. Don't even need a dvr because the app allows all series and movies to be played on demand. So now my bill is around $62.00 with fees. I have also thought about trading in my Hopper 3 for a Wally to my online retailer and then I an eliminate the $15.00 dvr fee and the $7.00 additional reciever fee or $22.00 a month. I already paid the $40.00 one time fee for dvr software years ago and I have an external hard drive just sitting here. That should give me some buffer against the enternal yearly price hikes. The best part I no longer have to worry about the Locals going up in price any more.
I remember Continental Cablevision back in the 80s. Only 36 channels. We black boxed our service in the 90s during the Viewers' Choice era of Pay-Per-View. But, back in the 80s, we were legit. Premium was HBO, Cinemax, Disney Channel, and the local RSNs (NESN and Sports Channel).
My parents had but got rid of Cinemax because as I young kid. I had a habit of falling asleep around 7:00 in the evening and waking up at 2:30 in the morning. With 36 channels it was quite easy for me to pass Cinemax with it's late night content. I still remember that it was channel 16. And, I was young, like before school age young. So Cinemax went, and my parents switched to HBO, which had less adult content at night, and just content that my parents my want to screen. Why not just drop premium movies? Well, perhaps what I share next might explain my parents' mind mindset at the time.
They didn't want to pay for everything under the sun, so the options they decided to make for themselves was it's either HBO (as Cinemax was out of the discussion) the sports pack, and/or Disney Channel. Since they liked movies and my father was an avid Hockey fan (Bruins were on NESN and the old Hartford Whalers were on the New England area's Sports Channel), the sports pack was a must. So, I never got Disney Channel until we started using the black box in the 90s, and by then I just grew out of Nickelodeon, so I didn't care about Disney.
So, as I kid, the one channel that would have grabbed my attention was scrambled. I wound up spending most of those over nights watching MTV.
So, when does the Anti-Trust Lawsuit get started that "forces" AT&T to offer HBO for an equal amount to all the paid television providers. AT&T owns DirecTV and Time Warner(HBO) and sells the same $15/mo service for only $5/mo on the DirecTV platform. I'm sure they'll get around it by claiming "bundling" saves them money.
With "Westworld" now over for the season and no "Game of Thrones" in the foreseeable future I'll say goodbye to HBO and HBO Go for now. My $10/mo for HBO expired earlier in June and I just got my $20/mo more bill (with all the adjustments and prorated numbers) so off to MyDish.com...
Edit: Well, when I went to remove HBO at $15/mo, the site did the "Hey, I see you're one of our most valued customers" pop-up and said I could have HBO for $10/mo for the next three months. Okay, I can go back to what I had before. In the immortal words of Emily Litella, "Nevermind..."
With "Westworld" now over for the season and no "Game of Thrones" in the foreseeable future I'll say goodbye to HBO and HBO Go for now. My $10/mo for HBO expired earlier in June and I just got my $20/mo more bill (with all the adjustments and prorated numbers) so off to MyDish.com...
Edit: Well, when I went to remove HBO at $15/mo, the site did the "Hey, I see you're one of our most valued customers" pop-up and said I could have HBO for $10/mo for the next three months. Okay, I can go back to what I had before. In the immortal words of Emily Litella, "Nevermind..."
As a first step, how about "forcing" AT&T to offer HBO for an equal amount to all of their own subscribers? As it is, if you have an "unlimited" AT&T wireless plan, they give you HBO for free. And of course, there are always the introductory free HBO offers for new subscribers. So, why can't every subscriber get free HBO?
I found something today they will make $15 not seem so bad, in a 1986 issue of SatelliteTV Week I found there was an ad from HBO. It was 12.95 or HBO or Cinemax (only E&W feed of each at that time) or $19.95 for both. Doesn’t make $15 for 8 feeds and VOD/HBO Go seem so bad 32 years later. FYI, that $12.95 would have had the same spending power as $29.37 today.
The difference, as I see it, was lack of competition back then. We now have Epix, Starz/Enc, Netflix, Showtime, etc.
