New Directv Prices
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You don't KNOW if they will even have a HD FEE after this ... after most peoples 24 month free deal is done.
I was wallowing around on the Comcast site today and they offer some manner of self-install kit for $30. The mind verily boggles.even better is when you pick how many TV's you need even if you hook it directly to the HDTV (lifeline is QAM..the rest needs a box) if you select 1 TV like that they will charge you $14 for install
I remember when I wanted a DVR with an S-video output. They told me I had to have it delivered ($50 charge) to get one.
My $10 off for 12 months was just a discount they gave me because I called and asked if they could give me RZ for free. I still ended up getting RZ for free anyway.
The free HD for 24 months will expire in about a year. So next year I am looking at paying $20 more per month without the price increase. And the price increase for me will be $5.50 more per month because I am under the old Total Choice Plus plan which they are getting rid of. In one year from now I will be paying at least $25.50 more per month and that does not include following year's price increase.
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True. But they will have to make up for the costs somewhere. I have a feeling that if they do get rid of the additional HD fee that the cost will be added to HD equipment, like many cable companies do.
Good point. Perhaps an SD equipment fee as long as you use your HD equipment as SD only?
I think the promo pricing (29.99/34.99/39.99) is good for one year. Then month 13 the promos change (I know it was like $16 off a month then)
even better is their 29.99 teaser rate but $10 for HD and 16.95 per EACH HD DVR and its sexy 20 hour HD capacity
I don't see this happening ... at least I hope, if they did they better GF those and make it effective for NEW subs as they come aboard.
If you think about it, DirecTV is pretty much the only provider that does not have different rates for different types of equipment. They are the only one to charge one flat additional receiver fee regardless of which receiver you have. DirecTV also has a history of being one of the last provider to change pricing and packaging options to line up with what other providers have already been doing. I hate to say it, but I do see them doing something like this in the future.
This right now is what is putting them at a price advantage (for me at least) over comcast-though I have never been impressed with there service, and with Dish as we know if you have more then one reciever its a bit higher. It will be intresting to see if they continue the Free "HD" that many of us have.
The sad things in my area, prices are pretty much the same. I live in a part of Michigan where my choices are Comcast, Dish, or Direct, I have been with Direct for about 12/13 years minus almost two years as I was curious to see how the water was on the Dish side.
Overall happy with Direct, I am intrested to see what the "entertainment" package is and if I can keep the "free HD" if I think that package is ok....Might be my own version of "el la carte"
My personal experience with Direct is they do seem to soften the blow a bit with some credits, though maybe those may be few in the future as I have read Direct wants to tighten the belt in programming and such
They had a deal earlier this year where OTA customers only paid $9.99, and the deal is expected to come back again in 2012. That said, you'd probably be better off getting a used HD and paying $12.95 as the OTA tuner is supposed to work better.
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yeah I'm wondering about that package tooOverall happy with Direct, I am intrested to see what the "entertainment" package is and if I can keep the "free HD" if I think that package is ok....Might be my own version of "el la carte"
good to know. I know I can't stream anything with my badass 1.5MB DSL so the streaming is kinda out of the question
good to know. I know I can't stream anything with my badass 1.5MB DSL so the streaming is kinda out of the question
I have a 30Mb Road Runner connection, and I can't stream things at times. This is one reason I dropped NetFlix. Too many times I could not stream shows or movies during primetime. I couldn't even get my Blu-Ray player to connect to their servers. Packet analysis showed no acks being returned. Ironically, I could stream on my laptop, so they are obviously using different CDNs for different clients. I prefer the iTunes model where items are downloaded personally. Streaming relies too havily on content distribution networks, some of which, are under provisionsed. That said, I do have Amazon Prime for the shipping, and they are adding new content all the time, so I occassionally stream content from them, although not always problem-free.
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