Dish to offer Temp subscriptions?

[dvrexpander]

Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH) may be looking at ways to offer subscribers the ability to temporarily upgrade their subscription video packages for periods ranging from 12 hours to one week, according to a recent patent application.
The satellite TV provider currently offers three core programming packages--"America's Top 120," "America's Top 200" and "America's Top 250." The patent application details ways that subscribers using its program guide could temporarily upgrade to a tier containing networks that aren't offered in their current packages with a few clicks of their remote controls.
DirecTV (Nasdaq: DTV), Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) and other Dish rivals have made it easier in recent years to upgrade and downgrade subscriptions through their customer service websites. A subscriber can upgrade to a premium network or broader programming package in order to watch a particular program or network. But those changes remain permanent until the customer asks to return to his previous subscription.

Read more: Dish Network develops method for offering temporary subscription upgrades - FierceCable http://www.fiercecable.com/story/di...ubscription-upgrades/2013-12-13#ixzz2nh4ykkhO
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I'll tell ya, it would certainly be handy for wanting to watch say one or two football games when you don't have that channel or shows/movies without updating the whole package screwing up the bill with a pro-rated amount and so on when you get charged to downgrade.

 

[Tampa8]

Late to the party.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads...pplication-for-temporary-subscription-updates

 

[KE4EST]

Yep already being discussed in the thread Tampa posted