RonBoyd
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It was a black Friday deal.
Oh! I have always ignored "Black Friday" (and such). I may have to rethink that policy.
It was a black Friday deal.
Oh! I have always ignored "Black Friday" (and such). I may have to rethink that policy.
How did you work this deal?
Yeah it's a good deal but the commercials make it painful, using it with Playon makes it worthwhile.
I agree. I signed up for it and cancelled two months later. The commericals very annoying, and I could not find one thing they offered that was good enough to make me want to watch the commercials.
I guess I am spoiled by Netflix, Amazon Prime, and the Tivo skip mode.
I didn't know Tivo worked with streaming services..... I'll have to look into this.
I finally got my Playon app working right and I really like it, is anyone using Playon with Philo?
I received my Dish bill yesterday it went from $78 to $108 without notice.... I called to cancel but they asked me to try the Flex pack with DVR & 2 tv's for $37, I'm giving that a shot.
I currently have hulu ($1 per month) with playon but I'm thinking of going with Prime, Netflix & maybe Philo and dropping Dish.
Here is my per month bill breakdown:
Flex Pack, $37.99
Local Channels (I don't get good OTA), 12.00
Joey receiver (for DW TV, I use Dish anywhere for my TV) $7:00
Regional action pack, $12:00 (for Rockies baseball..I had MLB single team last year and it came out to the same price, except I also needed a VPN with the MLB)
FCC, $0.04
State/Local Tax, $5.87
You don't pay a monthly charge for the Hopper/DVR?
SmallCityDave said:I didn't know Tivo worked with streaming services..... I'll have to look into this.
Dish satellite notified us our rate was increasing from $81/mo to $86, and we had 7 year old equipment. New equipment would have cost $96/mo and a 2 year contract, with no 12 month teaser rate. I threatened to switch to streaming and they found a way to bring us down to $43.85/mo ($42/mo discount) for 6 months, then another 6 months. But then they said they could only offer a $20/mo discount, or $25/mo with a 2 year contract. So they finally refused to compete with streaming for us.They gave me a $25 per month credit for a year so it should be $37.
Yeah it's a good deal but the commercials make it painful, using it with Playon makes it worthwhile.
I agree. I signed up for it and cancelled two months later. The commericals very annoying, and I could not find one thing they offered that was good enough to make me want to watch the commercials.
Pluto TV is a nice surprise as well, and is totally free. Lots of techie stuff here like the NASA livestream channel, etc.
Dish satellite notified us our rate was increasing from $81/mo to $86, and we had 7 year old equipment. New equipment would have cost $96/mo and a 2 year contract, with no 12 month teaser rate. I threatened to switch to streaming and they found a way to bring us down to $43.85/mo ($42/mo discount) for 6 months, then another 6 months. But then they said they could only offer a $20/mo discount, or $25/mo with a 2 year contract. So they finally refused to compete with streaming for us.
We’ve used PS Vue (was $45/mo, now $50) and Roku’s for over a year now, best TV decision we’ve ever made.
Continually lowering prices isn't a viable business plan. This approach keeps several options open. We're already seeing the early adopter advantaged pricing models for streaming begin to evaporate, with programming beginning to segregate itself into separate "channels", each with its own fee, on top of the fee for broadband. Keeping cable television package pricing high avoids the commodity service putting downward pressure on streaming service pricing offered by the same company. In addition, eventually the commodity service will become unprofitable, thereby serving as justification for whatever relief the providers may seek from rules imposed on MVPDs.Like the article in the WSJ said, they are going to compensate for losing customers by raising the prices on their remaining customers. I guess that might work in the short run, but.... Really!!!?!? Is that a viable business plan?
I have the flex pack. I'm happy with it, although DW likes it more than I do. The things I like about Dish is the Hopper, as in my setup it provides Netflix and YouTube at a better sound quality than my 4K roku (video is similar). Plus DW likes that the DVR and the program guide are easy to use. The basic Flex package has all the channels DW likes to watch with very little channel bloat compared to the other packages. Here is my per month bill breakdown:
Flex Pack, $37.99
Local Channels (I don't get good OTA), 12.00
Joey receiver (for DW TV, I use Dish anywhere for my TV) $7:00
Regional action pack, $12:00 (for Rockies baseball..I had MLB single team last year and it came out to the same price, except I also needed a VPN with the MLB)
FCC, $0.04
State/Local Tax, $5.87
One caveat here, during NFL season we have to change to a package that gets the NFL 'Red Zone' for DW. She's a big football fan. Then after the NFL season is over, we change back to the Flex package.