To all you complainers out there, BB at Home is just $5 a month for those who call up and ask for it.
BB@ Home disc By Mail Ending September 19th
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So paying $60 extra per year extra (plus tax) for a feature that Dish was promoting as a feature of their platinum package a year ago is now a good deal how?
I meant I was hoping they had streaming rights to the Stargate stuff. It appears they don't.
But the home page is (for me at least) greatly diminished, with only the DVD Spotlight thumbnails visible. I think there were 3 or 4 more of those thumbnail lines, e.g. Releasing This Week.
Worked last week.
Dish Platinum was $10 per month long before it became bb@home no discs by mail.
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Missing the point. Some people were complaining/suggesting there should be a price drop, because the drop of service. Now, people have that price drop.
Granted, it is only promotional.
This.
Drop the price $5 for awhile and still a complaint. Either $10 is or is not a good deal for the 20 something channels. Your call. For many, just as it was before there ever was a BB package, the same $10 represents a decent deal.
Had DISH raised the cost of the package when they added the DVD service, and now left it at the new price, I would be saying something different.
Blockbuster RIP
This is too bad. Adding the Blockbuster service to the old Platinum package was a great deal at the time, but both services have diminished in the past six months.
On the disc side, I'm only averaging about two movies per month, and half the time they're ones on the bottom of the queue.
On the streaming side, the quality of the titles is pretty lousy, and the quality of the audio and video isn't anything special.
On the programming side, Epix has a number of decent titles, but the other channels are lacking. HDNet Movies used to be a great feature, but they seem to have dropped their sneak-previews of new movies before they're released to theaters (have there been any in 2013?), and most of the movies they're showing are the same ones they've been showing for years - where's the new content. The Indie and Retro channels are OK, but they're also lacking in new content. MGM HD, Universal HD, and the Sony Movie Channel all have commercials. The other movie channels are SD, making them worthless to me. And what the heck do the rest of the channels have to do with Blockbuster? Logo? CIHD? MAVTV? Palladia? WFN? WTH?
This is too bad. Adding the Blockbuster service to the old Platinum package was a great deal at the time, but both services have diminished in the past six months.
On the disc side, I'm only averaging about two movies per month, and half the time they're ones on the bottom of the queue.
On the streaming side, the quality of the titles is pretty lousy, and the quality of the audio and video isn't anything special.
On the programming side, Epix has a number of decent titles, but the other channels are lacking. HDNet Movies used to be a great feature, but they seem to have dropped their sneak-previews of new movies before they're released to theaters (have there been any in 2013?), and most of the movies they're showing are the same ones they've been showing for years - where's the new content. The Indie and Retro channels are OK, but they're also lacking in new content. MGM HD, Universal HD, and the Sony Movie Channel all have commercials. The other movie channels are SD, making them worthless to me. And what the heck do the rest of the channels have to do with Blockbuster? Logo? CIHD? MAVTV? Palladia? WFN? WTH?
Perhaps a $10 savings off my Dish bill, but that $10 will end up going to Netflix or Redbox, so no real savings.
I was a big fan of the Blockbuster@Home package a year ago, and it will be missed.
I'm betting he received a 1/2 off deal with a Dish CSR. The Epix channels outside BB@H are only $7/month.
I pay for Starz! already (about to cancel since they ended Magic City but I'm on the fence because of the Outlander series Ronald D. Moore is doing on Starz!) and EPIX can be acquired for $7/month vs. the $10 for BB@H package.
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BTW, on a related note, Redbox now controls more than 50 percent of the rental market...
http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/redbox-now-controls-more-than-50-of-home-video-disc-rental-biz-1200568295/
22 percent is disc by mail (90-95 percent of which I assume is Netflix), and I guess the rest is local rental stores/chains, and what remains of the crumbling Blockbuster chain.
http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/redbox-now-controls-more-than-50-of-home-video-disc-rental-biz-1200568295/
22 percent is disc by mail (90-95 percent of which I assume is Netflix), and I guess the rest is local rental stores/chains, and what remains of the crumbling Blockbuster chain.
I am surprised I have not received the email yet. But the news is not surprising to me in the least.
No email here, but I saw this one coming. Service has been in the crapper for months. Can't beat Redbox. Family wanted to watch Olympus Has Fallen tonight. Woke up, reserved online , walked a couple of blocks to pick up.
