Free Preview??

[Poke]

Hey guys and girls I noticed yesterday that under my "SUB CHAN" listing. That I had all of the HBO's,Showtimes,TMC's plus I saw NFLHD. I thought that maybe they were doing a Free Preview week for Labor Day. Well tonight I notice they are still there and I'm on the AM120 plus HD Pack. Anyone know anything??

 

[blabber]

Those channels should vaporize by sometime tonight or tomorrow. Enjoy while you can. : :up @party

 

[goaliebob99]

Yep its in freepreview poke, there was a sticky untill the 30th when they went to free preview mode.. sorry you missed it.

 

[TNGTony]

The preview was advertised as being through the 7th. To me this means that at about 5pm tomorrow, HBO and Showtime will go back to their normal mode.

See ya
Tony

 

[lunkie]

where was it advertised, I did not see it on their web site and no mention in my latest billing statement?

 

[chaddux]

The preview was advertised as being through the 7th. To me this means that at about 5pm tomorrow, HBO and Showtime will go back to their normal mode.

See ya
Tony

Not quite, at least according to the guide. It ends between 12:00am and 12:00pm CST on the 8th, depending on the channel. You can tell exactly which channel ends at which time by scrolling right through the guide. As the free preview ends for a specific channel, the channel turns red (or green for Showtime) again. The times are staggered to match the ending of the movie or program in progress at that time. The West channels also end later because of the time difference. The first to end is SHOEX (322) at 12:25am CST after Alphabet City while the last to end is HBO-W (303) at 11:45 am CST after Men in Black. Another way to tell is that you can set event timers for shows ending before the cut-off while shows beginning after the cut-off spit up the standard "subscription channel" message.

 

[TNGTony]

where was it advertised, I did not see it on their web site and no mention in my latest billing statement?

Dish never beathed a word. However:
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cgi?&id=20050629hbo01
HBO's next free preview, Sept. 3-7, will feature "The Stolen Eagle" and episode 2, "How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic"; and in a first-ever HBO On Demand exclusive, the third episode, entitled "An Owl in a Thornbush," will be made available beginning Monday, Sept. 5, in advance of its Sept. 11 debut on HBO.


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http://www.digitaltv-weblog.com/50226711/announcements.php
http://hdtv.forsandiego.com/messages/2/3691.html?1123532847
http://www.ucwphilly.com/options/hbo_preview/hbo_preview.htm
http://www.cabletvtalk.com/showthread.php?t=2859
http://www.prairiewave.com/products/cable/hbopreview.htm
http://www.timewarnercable.com/sandiego/programming/freepreviews.html
http://michigan.mybrighthouse.com/
http://www.cox.com/sandiego/newsletter/
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=10208
http://smallscreen.monstersandcritics.com/article_1039496.php/Sneak_peek_at_HBOs_new_drama_Rome
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/jun05/june27/4_thurs/news7thursday.html
http://www.thedailystar.com/webads/722128.pdf
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=256179

That was just the first two pages of a google search with "HBO Free Preview" and "2005" in the mix

Notice that there were no results from HBO itself or Dish.

See ya
Tony

 

[Purogamer]

Dish has aired plenty of commercials for the free preview, I saw them all weekend...

Sign up for hbo/showtime, get 50 bucks back,the ads linked to http://www.dishnetwork.com/hboshow50