Although you might get away with it, it's not quite legitimate. Are you under contract on your cell phone? I get Netflix (2 screens) free of additional cost from T-Mobil.
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My cell phone is TracFone. Only $19.99 for 90 days of service at a time. I have a feeling it would be cheaper to just pay for Netflix.
Watch HBO return to Dish on Friday and go into Free Preview mode for a week. That would be a good joke. But I don't think HBO will return until after GoT is finished, if ever.
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My prediction would be the week after that. Why? Because I am assuming that there will be a rebroadcast of the season premiere of Game of Thrones before the second episode airs. So, by waiting a week, Dish would have an exclusive free preview at a time when none of the other providers have HBO in free preview, that would cover the first two episodes of this season of Game of Thrones instead of just the first one. This would also give Dish time to gauge the customer reaction / backlash for not having Game of Thrones before deciding whether it is worth it to agree to a deal to bring back HBO, and deciding how much Dish is willing to pay for HBO. This would be similar to the timing of when AMC returned near the beginning of The Walking Dead season that year. However, if HBO is not back in time for this season's second episode of Game of Thrones, then I agree that HBO is likely never coming back.
Well, it looks like there may very well be a free preview of the Info channel about HBO, if I am judging by this uplink report correctly:
Uplink Activity Updates » Blog Archive » 4/10/19 at 3:07am ET (v25) – 4 changes seen
Uplink Activity Updates » Blog Archive » 4/10/19 at 3:07am ET (v25) – 4 changes seen
That channel just tells you how to subscribe to HBO thru streaming options. Doubt that it is coming back to dish if dish is showing how to do that.
My thought was that most of the channels in the HBO/Cinemax range were already in free preview because of the HDNet Movies preview. (A preview that now seems to have been extended indefinitely, despite the mydish free preview page showing it expiring at the end of March. Perhaps Dish did not want to guarantee another entire month of HDNet Movies, because that preview will end as soon as HBO and Cinemax return?) However, the Info channels about the dispute were probably only available to subscribers of those channels. So, by adding tags (adding more packages) to the HBO Info channel (presumably putting that channel in free preview) it could be early preparation for putting that channel number in free preview as part of the HBO free preview if/when HBO does return.
Dare to dream! But these days anything is possible. Donald Trump got elected and Hillary isn’t in prison. I know, I know. That belongs in the pit. Just saying stranger thing have happened, recently.
So why would DISH promote a channel's streaming service if they don't carry that channel? That's strange to me.
Customer service. That is the meaning to customer service.
I’ve done that a handful of times with Netflix. Signed up for a free trial once just to see what it was all about, wasn’t impressed and canceled. Signed up again a few years later to see if it was any better, less impressed then before, canceled before my 30 days was up. Free trial #3 was in 2016 for Fuller House, watched and then canceled. Nothing else I cared to see. The fourth and final time was in the summer of 2017 to catch up on Fuller House and watch Stranger Things.
Fall of 2018 I became a T-Mobile subscriber and get it included in my subscription. Haven’t watched anything on it since Bird Box premiered around Christmastime. I would literally never ever pay for a Netflix subscription, I would just the few original series I care about on blu ray.
I have four non work email addresses, Road Runner, HughesNet, Gmail and Outlook.com just signed up each time with a different email address and created a virtual credit card number from BofA. I’m not defending or bragging about gaming the system, just saying it’s incredibly easy.
So people will continue to get HBO so they will want it again when Dish brings it back? But that means they would have to honor other subscription sources like is done with on line providers.
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Dish probably get a small commission from HBO for anybody that signs up through the Dish Link.
More like a short-cut. Instead of many many people calling into Dish to order HBO, and then being disappointed when they can't, Dish is trying to proactively tell them where they can get HBO because it won't be on Dish. This reduces call volumes and, ideally, unhappy customers. As for what Dish would or wouldn't honor should HBO come back to Dish, that is probably a bargaining chip on the table between AT&T and Dish.
I get that but HBO has been off DISH since Nov. 1.....that's over 5 months ago. Everyone on DISH who had it left weeks ago and knows that HBO is gone.
If people were just adding it for Game of Thrones I could see that but with the amount of time that has passed, those people would have made other arrangements to get their fix.
It's still strange that DISH cares now. Maybe as someone else said that DISH is getting something in a kickback for this from HBO?
Have you been on the Dish or HBO Facebook page? People still think it will be back sunday afternoon. Some people didn’t even know it was missing. Some people have no idea what the situation is. This is just Dish offering customer service.
Dish would rather you keep dish and stream it directly than to cancel Dish and go get it through Directv.
Haven't posted since last Nov when the takedown was only a few weeks old. Gotta say I don't miss HBO/Cinemax at all. I do miss Real Time with Bill Maher, but since then I've just watched youtube rips which are usually uploaded an hour after it airs. Never watched GoT or any HBO specials aside from Westworld. That said Im amazed the blackout has lasted this long. Even if HBO comes back I probly won't resubscribe.
Ahem...I am still here, and I am not going anywhere!
This does raise a good point about Dish subscribers who already had HBO and are getting it credited back on their bill, who are now paying for HBO from an alternative source, likely directly from AT&T. So now, when HBO returns (assuming for a second that it will return) that credit will end, and the subscriber will start being charged by Dish again. However, the subscriber has also already paid a non-refundable fee in advance for a month of streaming HBO, thus paying for the exact same content twice. So, who bears the responsibility for refunding the overcharge? Ideally, since both sides (Dish and AT&T) caused the dispute in the first place, both sides would take partial responsibility for refunding the double payment to the subscriber. However, the subscriber is probably not going to want the hassle of calling both companies to get a refund. So perhaps, as a measure of good will to existing subscribers who have been patient, and in order to avoid the situation described above, Dish should give all existing HBO subscribers a free month of HBO when it returns. This would give these subscribers time to use up the streaming subscription that has already been paid for, and then cancel it before any charge for HBO appears on their Dish bill. Otherwise, their only other alternative would be to immediately cancel their Dish HBO subscription as soon as HBO returns, in order to avoid being overcharged. I would think that Dish would want to avoid that latter scenario, as it would defeat the purpose of bringing HBO back to Dish in the first place.
I assumed if HBO ever came back, I might end up in this situation. I assumed neither Dish nor HBO (via Amazon in my case) would be willing to refund me any partial months (although I'd be happy to be wrong about this) so I cancelled HBO as soon as mydish.com would let me. Now, I can time my re-subscription to HBO on Dish with the end of my pre-paid month, should that ever come to pass.
