REMINDER: HBO Special Price Ending 9/20
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Yeh, but a lot of the crossover shows are "pay for" or if you get the channels through Netflix. My HBO subscription will not work in Netflix. They're are getting to be just like a cable provider. And the Netflix app on the H3 sucks. I get HDR only after a "pull-the-plug" reboot and only for a short time. Plus it's far easier to get it through the apps on my TV's and devices and content direct has much better PQ.
I have Amazon Prime that has thousands of TV shows and movies. Netflix as well as Hulu are good choices too. The days of "needing" HBO or Showtime is coming to and end. Many other streaming choices are available for less money too.
I received my dish bill today for the period off 10/2 to 11/1. It shows HBO at $10 special price even though I had selected discontinue after 9/20 when special price is going bye-bye. I realize the discontinue drop-box has been gone for awhile but shouldn’t my HBO have dropped off of next months bill?
If it is still $10, then what are you complaining about? Wait until the price actually increases, and then drop it.
Didn’t think I was complaining. Just trying to make sense of bill. In the past when I’ve selected drop at end of special offer, it did.
In this case, evidently the special offer has not ended yet.
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Everything that HBO or Showtime is not on other sources. But much of it is, especially the movies. Unfortunately HBO is $15 a month via streaming too, even though the cost on getting it to the viewer is a lot less as there is no satellite service. I only picked up HBO for the $10 a month and there are a very few programs I watch. I will drop it when mine deal runs out in October.
The only thing I watch is Westworld. I'll sub to HBO NOW when the next season comes out. The movies on HBO seem to circulate among the other premium providers, so I don't think I'm missing much there. Will be interesting to see if the HBO free previews on Dish come to an end as well of it they will continue a few times a year.
I only have HBO for the series tv shows. The movies are interchangeable with other premium services.
I went ahead and canceled my HBO and Cinemax today. I was only paying $5 a month for the two combined but quite frankly I did not see that they were even worth that.
I think back when the drop box went away, they sent out an email stating sometime around October or November the “special price,” originally sold as the for life price, will go away.
So, the special price is still on life support. It is not dead yet.
Either that or the special price applies to any billing after 9/20. It makes me wonder if Dish May have had hard numbers of how many subscribers HBO was about to lose.
They typically will continue all the way up until the date. So if you got a billing statement prior to 9/20, then it usually would not reflect the change yet. If you requested for it to fall off at the end of the period, it should drop off after today... should being the optimal word. Who knows what they are doing in the back offices.
