Has this been confirmed? I thought that the speculation was that the first Joey would be free.
(Yes, I know there's a pricing thread, but it says rumors, so it's not worth spending my time reading if that's all it is!)
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Has this been confirmed? I thought that the speculation was that the first Joey would be free.
(Yes, I know there's a pricing thread, but it says rumors, so it's not worth spending my time reading if that's all it is!)
nothing confirmed yet for pricing. Just some unclear rumors that could be interpreted in a few ways.
As it box is descent from 922 then each of 813 should support four EHD (with external hub)
Receiver Fees
$7.00 You have a Hopper 2000 receiver on your account.
$7.00 You have a Joey 1.0 receiver on your account.
Whole Home DVR Service Fee $4.00 You have a Whole Home DVR Hopper 2000 on your account$7.00 You have a Hopper 2000 receiver on your account.
$7.00 You have a Joey 1.0 receiver on your account.
Notice this doesn't say "Additional Receiver fees", just "Receiver Fees", a separate section. Interpreting that, it comes to $7 + $7 + $4 + $6 DVR fee = $24 for a single H/J pair. Now if the first hopper IS free, it is still $17 compared to just $6 for a single dual-tuner ViP receiver.
This is one reasonable interpretation of the agreement. The dealer chat next week will be very interesting. I'm anxious to see how the fees are implemented.
By the time I read it a third time it looks like your right.wow! DISH.. fees because we can?.
Ouch. The only trouble I see with that interpretation is that it's not "aggressive" pricing... Unles Vivek meant "aggressively HIGH" from the Dish exec perspective.
It is an interpretation of how those fees will be applied. Nothing in the agreement prevents the first joey and/or hopper from being included.That's not an interpretation,that's in the new residential home agreement.
Here's the same prices in the DHA contract:
http://www.dish.com/downloads/legal/DHA_Agreement.pdf
Looks like it's set in stone to me.
I'm not assuming anything, but expect the 1st hopper to be treated like any other first receiver. Others have speculated the first joey may be thrown in to keep thng in parity with the duo receivers - I am very skeptical of that (and hopefully wrong).
Again it's all wild a** gueses at this point. We will know soon enough.
Yes I just noticed the DHA has it under the additional receiver fees where the residential home agreement does not,hope I'm wrong too.
These fees are getting to the point to where maybe I should just consider dropping satellite and watching everything on demand online. This is getting rather rediculous.
Threats, threats, threats..... If you hate the service so much just go ahead and cancel it for gosh sakes. We don't even know what the actual fees are going to be yet and you are in your threat stance!
The fees that will be or could be is not the issue. It is what they are right now. I think it's way too much myself, then again others may think it's a deal. That's why I am a bare bones sub because the extra receiver fees and programming prices are way out of line imo. I could afford to pay it, but refuse to do it for just TV. Everyone has different priorities and TV doesn't rank very high with me.
