What if the funniest thing about this whole thing is that the fees have always been JUST BECAUSE WE CAN FEES! I mean lets see the additional receiver fee was 5.00 for sd , 7.00 for hd. The tv 2 connection fee (pure made up crap) for 5.00 that you used to be able to AVOID if you plugged the phone or ethernet line into your receiver. The dvr service fee PER RECEIVER you used to not be able to Avoid for 5.98 is still there but is just included in the new Additional receiver fee /monthly charges. So lets roll all the bullsh*t fees , that DISH made up into one BIG ASS equipment fee , but thats not all. DISH then adds a whole house DVR fee of now $6.00 PER dvr ACCOUNT on top of all the other charges. So this entire price hike on equipment is because DISH is a group of greedy bastards and they hoped none of us would figure it out. Too late for that. I have thought DISH and the bean counters to be greedy a**holes ever since they started the DVR fee PER DVR RECEIVER.
But being greedy in tough economical times like these, you run the risk of causing churn and the worst part: BAD WORD OF MOUTH BY SUBS WHO LEAVE. So this will be the gift that keeps on hurting old Charlie and his greedy accountants. When the churn rate goes up and they sub numbers start dropping in quarter 2 and the amount of returns of expensive dvrs start flooding DISH, then Charlie will see the results. He will most likely not be making as much money as he is today. The reason why? Subs that stay will downgrade their programming and or return additional receivers to save money. This will make the average revenue spent per sub drop . It will also cause Echostar the sister company, to not sell a lot of duo dvr receivers ,because many subs will not have more than one now. But that might be what Charlie wants. He might want a flood of duo tuner dvrs to use in the upcoming receiver replacement DISH will have to do when they switch out all mpeg 2 receivers on western arc to mpeg4.