Starz/Encore soon to not be available in the AT250?
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An additional reason why I don't see streaming coming into full flower over sat or cable is not just reliability, but rather data caps. Where I live, Comcast presently has a 1TB/month data cap. Now, if I streamed 100% of everything I watched, in HD, I'd hit that data cap probably in the first 2 weeks of the month. Then, Comcast hits $10 more for each 50GB block of data used after the 1TB cap is exceeded. Bessides satellite, Comcast is the only game in town for this area.
I'd rather have Dish out here and have a fixed rate that I can budget for rather than stream everything and not know what my bill is going to be if I might watch too much TV.
Or I can go to their "Unlimited" plan, I can just pay $50 extra over my already high monthly rate and not be concerned about a data cap (just read that). So my Comcast bill would be $35ish more/month than my Dish bill is presently.
Think I'll stick with Dish...
I'd rather have Dish out here and have a fixed rate that I can budget for rather than stream everything and not know what my bill is going to be if I might watch too much TV.
Or I can go to their "Unlimited" plan, I can just pay $50 extra over my already high monthly rate and not be concerned about a data cap (just read that). So my Comcast bill would be $35ish more/month than my Dish bill is presently.
Think I'll stick with Dish...
When streaming can do MultiView and feed multiple TV's via component or HDMI and have a reliable DVR and skip commercials on all shows and have a common interface and on and on then maybe it might be an alternative.
I dropped both Starz and Showtime when my six month promo pricing ended in February because of the of the mediocre PQ: intermittent compression judder and overall image softness.
Why they won't reallocate some of that bandwidth is beyond me, but my wallet does have 10 bucks more in it each month.
I would rather have a channel in HD, but if that channel is now available in HD for one reason or another, I would rather have the channel than not. At least we have access to it. If you go through the list of the diginets, and other misc available Dish channels most are N/A in HD.
STARZ and Encore is $8.99 a month for streaming and everything is in HD, even the old classic Western movies.
Bzzzzz wrong...only the starz and the main encore channel are in HD...the encore subchannels are sd only
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I am talking about online, Juan. AKA the Internet. No SD there.
I pay Cox $83 per month for internet alone. I pay Dish $40 per month for the Welcome pack. You lose, you lose. Then add in the cost of Netflix and Amazon Prime, who is saving money and who is making the money, not me.
Long time lurker, never bothered signing up, finally broke just to post this.
Is anyone else seeing this? Searching multiple ways, I see the Starz/Encore channels in AT250, with the exception of the base Starz/Encore. The other ones all show as still being in AT250. Apologies for the formatting, AEP is the left check, AT250 is the right check.
Station AEP AT250
Starz Encore Action (EACTN)
Starz Encore Black (EBLCK)
Starz Encore Classic (ECLAS)
Starz Encore Family (EFAM)
Starz Encore (ENCOR) HD
Starz Encore - West (ENCRW)
Because if they got HBO back they would decrease the picture quality and more people would have something to complain about.
Besides, HBO is not a totally dead issue yet.
I never cared for Starz and Encore in a basic pack. I really don’t care for any of the movie channels at all, but only get them because I want the larger selection of basic channels.
Touche'! Or is that touchy??
MY thoughts, exactly, and while streaming is a tempting option, it's just not there yet, for me
How is the issue not a dead horse? They're not going to give them a guaranteed minimum subscriber base (that would be nuts). They're advertising HBO NOW as an option. The merger is a done deal, no further additional court challenge is anticipated. AT&T/DirecTV wants Dish dead - that's part of market competition; you either put out a much better product to attract customers or you choke-out the competition via mergers and arm-twisting.
If HBO/Cinemax ever returns to Dish, I'll be stunned...
I took something Charlie said... ATT is heavily indebted, so they may come back to the table before it is too late. Let’s see the impact the mandatory hBo has on DTVNow numbers.
