Because it's standard practice among businesses. Many absolute customers probably use the savings to add things like premiums or dual-tuner to their account. Now, if they jump ship the shareholders will be less happy since E* will lose subs.
CONFIRMED(?)- Dish Discontinuing Absolute HD Package
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Because it's standard practice among businesses. Many absolute customers probably use the savings to add things like premiums or dual-tuner to their account. Now, if they jump ship the shareholders will be less happy since E* will lose subs.
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So this is your vacation ?
Looks the same as not being on vacation !
That is because you change programming, even an add on.well here's the thing DK, i too was in a grandfathered package with D*. so 3 months ago they offered 3 months free of the HD extra pack. i went to remove it a few days ago and guess what buddy? D told me if i wanted to remove the HD extra pack i had to upgrade to the newer programming packages........ So i agreed. They gave me no choice and was surprised that they would've tricked me this way to force me to upgrade to the newer packages. what is helping me is that they did give me free HD for 24 months. so it evened out for now. if not for that i would be paying about $10 more a month
This is weird because I dropped and added the HD extra pack several times, every time they offer it free for 3 months, and they never changed my grandfathered package
i understand but they left that part out when i added the HD pack 3 months ago
. just goes to show that all providers have their issues. i tried to get out of it but D* said no way. hopefully you wont have to deal with this in the near future. your package i believe is even older than the one i had......yaz96 said:
Here's food for thought...Scott Greczkowski said:
One company pulled their HD channels because Dish Network didn't want to pay for them. Those channels were in Absolute.
After Dish Network SUED this provider because Dish Network felt the provider wasn't living up to the terms of the carriage contract, this provider countersued and won the case completely. The judgment stated the current carriage contract does not apply to these channels.
So it appears there were four channels in Absolute that should have never been there. And maybe other providers believe their channels shouldn't be there, either, but haven't bothered going to court to enforce the terms of their agreement.
Maybe Absolute, as it was configured, wasn't absolutely legal.
Wait did I just go accidentally into the tivo vs E thread???? Geesh......(Sigh) lol
right now, dish is offering new customers $15 off for a year... is the "absolute ending" deal an additional $15 off? I really have my doubts about that. It seems, if the reported deals are accurate, that we are being offered the same deal as new subs, just no contract, and maybe the 6 months free platinum. What a rip.
My TIVO with comcast cable card is 100% rock solid, My 722s would occasonal spaz for no apparent reason, and NO MORE RAINFADE with cable.
True I didnt get it much but this spring had lots of violent storms and last winter we got so much snow I must of cleaned the dishes 15 times, once digging a path to reach 61.5 dish, the snow was higher than the dish, we had 3 foot with a 6 foot drift
Comcast ends all that, last winter was the snowiest one in pittsburghs history
I believe he was telling Scott to not bother explaining the situation, that it wouldn't make any difference to people who are blaming the whole mess on Dish.
One option for us Hd Absolute subs would be for Dish to create an HD Absolute+ package that includes the same programming as it does now, but adds in the SD channels.
Of course the price would go up, maybe 50% or more, but it would give us an option other than going to the AT packages which are poorly distributed (as far as good channels are concerned).
If Charlie is at the CMT taping in Nashville in 2 weeks I'll broach the subject to him.
Of course the price would go up, maybe 50% or more, but it would give us an option other than going to the AT packages which are poorly distributed (as far as good channels are concerned).
If Charlie is at the CMT taping in Nashville in 2 weeks I'll broach the subject to him.
Just wait
Just wait till they have a line amp go in your area. You'll find out how much fun having cable can be. At least if I lose cable I only lose the net & still have TV programming. BTW I've never out an outage on E* that lasted past the storm going thru. And yes where I live does get snow. In fact they had a 18" this winter ( A really bad one for here (it was that much at one time) but several inches several times. Enuff of this off topic though.
My TIVO with comcast cable card is 100% rock solid, My 722s would occasonal spaz for no apparent reason, and NO MORE RAINFADE with cable.
True I didnt get it much but this spring had lots of violent storms and last winter we got so much snow I must of cleaned the dishes 15 times, once digging a path to reach 61.5 dish, the snow was higher than the dish, we had 3 foot with a 6 foot drift
Comcast ends all that, last winter was the snowiest one in pittsburghs history
Just wait till they have a line amp go in your area. You'll find out how much fun having cable can be. At least if I lose cable I only lose the net & still have TV programming. BTW I've never out an outage on E* that lasted past the storm going thru. And yes where I live does get snow. In fact they had a 18" this winter ( A really bad one for here (it was that much at one time) but several inches several times. Enuff of this off topic though.
The one that called me also said there was no contract required. Their offer isn't really bad. A quick check on ConCast or D* proved it was much better than anything the other 2 offer for my needs - especially equipment wise.
I know I'll drop the Platinum - I'm not a movie buff and if I was I'd just sign up for NetFlix.
Our biggest problem is trying to replace the channels we do want with a reasonably priced package. I watch VS a lot during the college football season but I'm not subscribing to the top package just for it. I'm sure others will be in the same boat since our current channels are spread all over the other packages.
Did you make the move off of absolute during that call or did they give you certain amount of time to decide?
I didn't do anything. They were pushing for a response this week which isn't going to happen. I won't even be home for over a week. I asked when they were going to cut it off for sure and they don't even have a timetable yet. Going to take a while to contact everyone and get a decision.
28 pages and it still doesn't add up, only 2 people have got this call, no timetable?
