After a long & friendly discussion with my wife, we decided & agreed to end our subscription to H2H in the near future. It's time to move on to better things. We just haven't decided what is really better.
As my monthly subscription nears it's end, I thought I would try alacarte since we watch only a few channels but alacarte only carries like 3 of the channels we watch regularly & we would be paying about half of what we pay now. Ala Carte is nothing to what it once was. Very disappointing.
So we looked at the pick ten and found a couple more channels we watch. So between the two choices, it would cost us about the same amount as what we're paying now & still not get all we want off of H2H. To get what we want, we have to get the "Get It All" pack, which in reality is still only a small part of what you can really get in the real world.
There has been a lot of promises of good things to come to H2H but none of them have materialized. So the Discovery channels stayed, so what, not really that big a deal in the overall scheme of things.
It's Retro TV at it's best. Or worst?
I paid $2,700.00 in 1992 for my BUD system & spent a week putting it all together myself, an additional $695.00 for my 922 receiver & $400.00 for a used HD Decoder that is all but useless now.
But overall, during the past 16 years I subscribed to C-Band, I can say the money I saved on subscriptions has paid for my BUD and then some. But those savings have stopped as I pay $34.00/mo for mostly crappy channels.
I still plan to keep my BUD for FTA & will probably get a separate Satellite dish mover in the future.
I have been a Big Dish subscriber exclusively since 1992 and it's sad & difficult to let it go and as I looked at a list of over 600 channels that once could be gotten, not to mention hundreds more in the form of feeds, it's kind of sad to see what it's become.
I remember in 2005 I had subscribed to 29 HBO feeds, 19 Showtimes & 24 Starz for a fraction of what cable or the small dish charged for just a couple feeds of each. Plus 2 HBO HD & 1 Discovery HD that had a truly amazing & breathtaking picture.
There were even subscription channels not offered by the others.
But it's a new era I guess.
I'm not sure what we'll go with yet, whether it's the small dish or cable. Or maybe we'll go with FTA for now.
For me, the only way my BUD is going to live on is thru FTA, which I am fairly pleased with.
As my monthly subscription nears it's end, I thought I would try alacarte since we watch only a few channels but alacarte only carries like 3 of the channels we watch regularly & we would be paying about half of what we pay now. Ala Carte is nothing to what it once was. Very disappointing.
So we looked at the pick ten and found a couple more channels we watch. So between the two choices, it would cost us about the same amount as what we're paying now & still not get all we want off of H2H. To get what we want, we have to get the "Get It All" pack, which in reality is still only a small part of what you can really get in the real world.
There has been a lot of promises of good things to come to H2H but none of them have materialized. So the Discovery channels stayed, so what, not really that big a deal in the overall scheme of things.
It's Retro TV at it's best. Or worst?
I paid $2,700.00 in 1992 for my BUD system & spent a week putting it all together myself, an additional $695.00 for my 922 receiver & $400.00 for a used HD Decoder that is all but useless now.
But overall, during the past 16 years I subscribed to C-Band, I can say the money I saved on subscriptions has paid for my BUD and then some. But those savings have stopped as I pay $34.00/mo for mostly crappy channels.
I still plan to keep my BUD for FTA & will probably get a separate Satellite dish mover in the future.
I have been a Big Dish subscriber exclusively since 1992 and it's sad & difficult to let it go and as I looked at a list of over 600 channels that once could be gotten, not to mention hundreds more in the form of feeds, it's kind of sad to see what it's become.
I remember in 2005 I had subscribed to 29 HBO feeds, 19 Showtimes & 24 Starz for a fraction of what cable or the small dish charged for just a couple feeds of each. Plus 2 HBO HD & 1 Discovery HD that had a truly amazing & breathtaking picture.
There were even subscription channels not offered by the others.
But it's a new era I guess.
I'm not sure what we'll go with yet, whether it's the small dish or cable. Or maybe we'll go with FTA for now.
For me, the only way my BUD is going to live on is thru FTA, which I am fairly pleased with.
