DISH HD for life?

[NEOK]

We are considering switching to DISH and are curious about the HD for life offer. It says HD for life of the account. Does this mean for the 2 year commitment or for as long as we maintain an account with DISH even if it is beyond our initial 2 year contract? Also to get an HD receiver capable of supporting 2 TVs do we have to get one that has a DVR?

Thank you

 

[MattG@DISH]

We are considering switching to DISH and are curious about the HD for life offer. It says HD for life of the account. Does this mean for the 2 year commitment or for as long as we maintain an account with DISH even if it is beyond our initial 2 year contract? Also to get an HD receiver capable of supporting 2 TVs do we have to get one that has a DVR?

Thank you

Life of the account means so long as it is active, so even past the 2 years you would still get HDFL. We do have a non-DVR HD receiver that supports 2 TVs. If both of the TVs in your home need to be HD, you will need to get 2 separate receivers (the duo receivers only support 1 HDTV, the other is SD). Please let us know if you have any additional questions

 

[Scherrman]

Don't forget that HD for Life requires autopay and paperless billing.

 

[Mr Tony]

or a one time $99 fee

 

[Juan]

Somehow I got HD free for life without either of those...

 

[Scherrman]

What programming package do you have?

 

[Juan]

What programming package do you have?

they used to have seperate HD and Platinum packages for $ 10 a piece and then (thanks to satellite guys) I found out I could cancel both of those packages and get a "combined" platinum and HD" for $10 a month..those who had that package were grandfathered into free HD for life

 

[Scherrman]

I fugured it was something like that.

 

[bentjm]

Dish does not have a receiver that will serve two HD tvs. All of their dual receivers are one HD and one SD tv. A VIP222k will get you two tvs (one HD, one SD) with no DVR. If you have two HD tvs, then I would suggest two VIP 211k receivers. You can add an external hard drive to them and make them into a DVR if you want to at a later date.

 

[nwflyboy]

Don't forget that HD for Life requires autopay and paperless billing.

Does it also require autopay-for-life, and paperless-billing-for-life? Or just autopay-and-paperless-billing for the duration of the 2 year contract?

Thanks.

 

[Bobby]

and if it did require more than the 2 year contract, would it really make any difference? I've been on autopay and paperless for 13 years without issue......

 

[ZachS@DISH]

Does it also require autopay-for-life, and paperless-billing-for-life? Or just autopay-and-paperless-billing for the duration of the 2 year contract?

Thanks.

If autopay with paperless billing was removed, HD Free for Life would be forfeited until it was added back on to the account.