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New DirecTV Pricing Starts 2/6
NEW: FAMILY $29.99/mo. plus tax approximately 40 channels
OLD: FAMILY (package name changes on existing customer bills. No change to price or channel lineup)
NEW: CHOICE $49.99/mo. plus tax over 140 channels
OLD: TOTAL CHOICE $44.99/mo. plus tax over 155 channels
NEW: CHOICE XTRA $54.99/mo. plus tax same channels as PLUS (below) but without DVR service
OLD: TOTAL CHOICE PLUS $49.99/mo. plus tax over 185 channels
NEW: PLUS $59.99/mo. plus tax DVR service included over 185 channels
OLD: NONE
NEW: PLUS HD $69.99/mo. plus tax HD Access and DVR service included over 185 channels
OLD: NONE
NEW: PREMIER $99.99/mo. plus tax over 250 channels including all premium channels
OLD: TOTAL CHOICE PREMIER (package name changes to PREMIER on existing customer bills. No change to price or channel lineup)
NEW: Price of HBO is going up by $1 for current and existing customers.
NEW PROMO: Get PLUS for $49.99/mo. for your first 12 months, plus 3 free months of HBO and Cinemax. (Requires mail-in redemption for $10/mo. bill credit for 12 months. After promo period, customers will be charged at then-prevailing rate.
NEW PROMO: Get PLUS HD for $59.99/mo. for your first 12 months, plus 3 free months of HBO and Cinemax and 12 free Pay Per View coupons (one per month). (Requires mail-in redemption for $10/mo. bill credit for 12 months. After promo period, customers will be charged at then-prevailing rates. For High Risk and No hit, the premium channels will not appear in the 4th month unless customer calls to continue those channels).
PACKAGE DESCRIPTIONS
CHOICE: Featuring over 140 top networks including movies, sports, family favorites and 50 XM Satellite Radio channels as well as local programming*. A great value in television entertainment all in 100% digital-quality picture and sound.
CHOICE XTRA: Our most popular television choices, including the best in movies, sports, music, documentary, educational, specialty and family programming. This package includes everything in our CHOICE package plus hard-to-find channels you won’t find everywhere else such as Biography, PBS Sprout, History International Channel, E!, The Golf Channel, Nicktoons and Boomerang. Over 185 top networks including 78 XM Satellite Radio channels, as well as local programming all in 100% digital- quality picture and sound.
PLUS: All the programming of CHOICE XTRA, AND with a DVR, this service lets you enjoy TV on your terms with DVR service to pause and rewind live TV, record a season of your favorite show with the touch of a button and save up to 100 hours of programming – no discs or tapes needed. Watch the best of television whenever you want.
PLUS HD: All of the above, AND this package features access to the best HD channels, including ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD, TNT HD, Discovery HD Theater, Universal HD, HD Net, HD Net Movies, local HD channels and more sports in HD than any other cable or satellite provider. All our HD channels bring you a picture clarity that’s 7 to 10 times sharper than ordinary TV.
PREMIER: Our very best entertainment package with the convenience of DVR service that offers a world of premium entertainment including movies, sports, music, special events and local channels. Over 250 top networks in 100% digital quality, 31 premium movie channels featuring 7 channels of HBO, 12 channels of Starz, 9 channels of Showtime, and 3 channels of Cinemax, plus more than 30 sports networks with Sports Pack. This package also lets you enjoy TV on your terms with DVR service to pause and rewind live TV, record a season of your favorite show with the touch of a button and save up to 100 hours of programming – no discs or tapes needed. Enjoy the best of television with premium movie and sports channels on your time with the addition of DVR service in your home.
HIGH-DEFINITION SERVICES: Besides introducing the base package options listed above, we are changing the way we offer high-definition service. Formerly, customers were able to purchase the DIRECTV® HD Package for $9.99/mo. We are expiring the current DIRECTV HD Package on February 5, 2007. Now, to simplify delivery of our expanding lineup of HD service options, we are bundling related HD channels into our base, premium and sports subscription packages.
New customers activating HD equipment on or after February 6, regardless of the programming they choose, will pay for access to DIRECTV® HD technology at a flat fee of $10.99 per month (i.e., the “HD Access Fee”). This fee will be required anytime an HD receiver is activated on a customer’s account. The customer receives access to our HD technology so they can enjoy HD transmissions of programming within their programming packages -- for example, if a customer has the NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ SuperFan™ package, he/she will get the HD games included in that package; or, if a customer has HBO®, he/she will get HBO® HD. Similarly, if a customer has local channels in their programming package and DIRECTV offers local HD programming in their area, the customer will receive the HD local channels.
There are no changes to our existing 1-year and 2-year programming commitment requirements and policies based on the type of hardware purchased and the programming offers accepted by customers.
• There are no changes to mirroring fees, nor to the fees for programming on additional owned receivers; both remain at $4.99 per month.
• There is no change to the price of DVR service; it remains $5.99 per month in all cases, except for those customers taking the PREMIER package, which includes the DVR service.
• There are no price changes to a la carte packages and services, such as DIRECTV PROTECTION PLAN and BabyFirstTV™.
• Effective February 6, 2007, we will be strictly enforcing our requirement that customers who reside where DIRECTV offers local channels will have their local channels included with their packages. They will not be able to opt out. Of course, if there are technical issues (such as line-of-sight, etc.), we will continue to handle them on a case-by-case basis.
Channels being removed from the former "TOTAL CHOICE" package and moved to "EXTRA":
E!
G4
OLN=VERSUS
Golf
Discovery Health
ESPN Classic
National Geographic
Fuel TV
Speed
Fox Reality
Sleuth
WGN
Oxygen
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01-18-2007, 08:19 AM
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Almost a ten percent increase? As of five minutes ago, I couldn't picture myself saying this, but, Hello Cablevision.
Are they nuts?
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01-18-2007, 08:35 AM
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Ugh - Based on the increase and the moves on those channels to "EXTRA"
I'm out after hockey season...
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01-18-2007, 08:39 AM
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Yipes! I would have considered dropping back from Total Choice Plus but if they're moving NGC to Plus, I guess I stay with it for now. And a buck more for HBO?  That's make my bill at least $6 more. 
Or is it that I'll get shifted to the $59.99 PLUS package since I have a DirecTivo? I do have Lifetime on my account so I'm not worried about the DVR fee.
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01-18-2007, 08:50 AM
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They say "if you subscribe to HBO, you will automatically get HBO HD", the same for local channels. But that's the way it always was, at least in my experience. What they are doing is making you take the HD package and paying for it even if you don't want their HD package channels.
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01-18-2007, 09:00 AM
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Father of Sam.
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So, to get what I have now (TC+, HD & DVR: $64.99), I'll have to pay $5 MORE??? Damn D*...this really blows...
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01-18-2007, 09:05 AM
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Fortuitous timing. Comcast is supposed to be here today between 9 and 11.
Not that I'd necessarily have a problem with a price increase alone. But if it's gonna be an annual thing, and they're gonna keep restructuring it to offer fewer options, and they still can't admit their HD offerings are resolution-reduced and compressed more than other delivery systems... and they no longer offer functional DVRs... I might as well be a cable customer nowadays.
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01-18-2007, 09:09 AM
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disco, I'm in the same situation as you (TC+, HD & DVR: $64.99). I wonder if they will automatically roll us into PLUS HD? Since I also have HBO, Premier is looking better at $17/mo net more.
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01-18-2007, 09:12 AM
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This is ridiculous. I have to go from Total Choice to the Plus option if I want to get ESPN Classic and WGN?!? Does DirecTV consider its subscribers to be annoying little bugs to just be swatted at when they see fit?
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01-18-2007, 09:14 AM
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There will be grandfathering for existing customers but not sure what the deal will be on that yet.
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01-18-2007, 09:17 AM
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So, they are keeping people committed for their term, yet raising the prices? OR are they going to keep pricing the same until the commitment is up?
Good thing I have TC Premeir or whatever it is called now. It looks like our bill will not change.
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01-18-2007, 09:19 AM
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disco, I'm in the same situation as you (TC+, HD & DVR: $64.99). I wonder if they will automatically roll us into PLUS HD? Since I also have HBO, Premier is looking better at $17/mo net more.
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Premier doesn't include HD, so add $10.99...now you're $28 more...still a great deal??
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01-18-2007, 09:24 AM
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Did the Titanium package price go up?
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01-18-2007, 09:34 AM
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Tivo is the only thing keeping me with DTV. Once I have to switch to a DTV DVR I might as well switch to FIOS.
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01-18-2007, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by lew
Tivo is the only thing keeping me with DTV. Once I have to switch to a DTV DVR I might as well switch to FIOS.
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If FIOS is available to you, what the heck is your problem? Switch now!
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01-18-2007, 09:42 AM
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FIOS is not available to me, yet. As you probably know, D, FIOS is available to a limited number of NJ towns. But they have aggressive plans to be in 300 towns by the end of the year. If it gets to my area it will look very tempting.
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01-18-2007, 09:42 AM
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Ok so I have total choice plus with locals and HBO. Is my bill increasing 10 bucks a month?
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01-18-2007, 09:45 AM
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Currently on Total Choice, so for $5 more a month I get fewer channels.
Or I could bump up to the, what was it, Choice Plus to get back a few channels I had before for ANOTHER $5/month. Granted, that should also add channels above that as well.
And since I have an HR10 there exists the possibility that I'll be forced to pay the extra $11/mo.
So, somewhere between $5 and $26 more per month, to simply MAINTAIN the level of service I have now...
Put this together with the complete frak up with 6.3/a/b and the guide data, and I'm looking around. Anyone have any experience with the new Dish 942 or 924 (can't remember the number) HD DVR? Or someplace to get a really great deal on an S3?
If only Brighthouse would get on board with that cable Tivo deal...
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01-18-2007, 09:46 AM
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If FIOS is available to you, what the heck is your problem? Switch now!
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FIOS isn't available to me, but if I could switch, I would...damn contract... 
As mad as I am at DirecTV, I'm madder at the networks for demanding more money. Obviously those carriage price increases have manifested in our bills.
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01-18-2007, 09:46 AM
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Premier doesn't include HD, so add $10.99...now you're $28 more...still a great deal??
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Not sure if HD is included or not. This seems to say that HD is included:
"Now, to simplify delivery of our expanding lineup of HD service options, we are bundling related HD channels into our base, premium and sports subscription packages." I don't see a "Premier HD" bundle so I assume HD is included in "Premier". But I could be wrong.
And right after that is this:
"New customers activating HD equipment on or after February 6, regardless of the programming they choose, will pay for access to DIRECTV® HD technology at a flat fee of $10.99 per month (i.e., the “HD Access Fee”). "
So will Premier subs have to pay the $10.99/mo if they have HD receiver?
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01-18-2007, 09:50 AM
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Father of Sam.
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All I know is that the HD channels are not currently in the Premier package. I'd be surprised if it was suddenly included (happily, for once).
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01-18-2007, 09:52 AM
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How about some posts that tell how much the various cable companies charge for similar packages? I'm curious to know the price difference. I don't want to know promotional prices, just the regular price that kicks in after the promo price.
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01-18-2007, 10:00 AM
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How about some posts that tell how much the various cable companies charge for similar packages? I'm curious to know the price difference.
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FIOS and digital cable are offering bundled pricing that includes internet and phone (voice). $99/month is a common promotional pricing for all three services. Many of them offer HD programming without an extra charge.
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01-18-2007, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by hiker
Not sure if HD is included or not. This seems to say that HD is included:
"Now, to simplify delivery of our expanding lineup of HD service options, we are bundling related HD channels into our base, premium and sports subscription packages." I don't see a "Premier HD" bundle so I assume HD is included in "Premier". But I could be wrong.
And right after that is this:
"New customers activating HD equipment on or after February 6, regardless of the programming they choose, will pay for access to DIRECTV® HD technology at a flat fee of $10.99 per month (i.e., the “HD Access Fee”). "
So will Premier subs have to pay the $10.99/mo if they have HD receiver?
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I don't under stand this. It says regardless of package. So if you get the Plus HD package you still have to pay $10.99 a month ?
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01-18-2007, 10:07 AM
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I called Comcast and asked what it would cost for my current setup, 4 D*tivos and total choice plus with hbo which I currently pay $64 with all my discounts from D* and Comcast quoted me the same setup at $109 a month.
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01-18-2007, 10:09 AM
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I don't under stand this. It says regardless of package. So if you get the Plus HD package you still have to pay $10.99 a month ?
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I don't think you have to pay $10.99/mo if the package has "HD" after the name like "PLUS HD". But no "PREMIER HD"? If "PREMIER" includes HD Access then I will jump on that.
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01-18-2007, 10:11 AM
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my current conundrum:
Charter Cable VS Dish Nework.
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01-18-2007, 10:20 AM
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After checking out the packages and numbers, it looks like my bill will go up $6. Or just under 7% a month.
I'll go to Plus HD, keep HBO and Sports pack. HBO is 17% of the increase. Wow.
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01-18-2007, 10:25 AM
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Father of Sam.
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What's the source of this info, btw??
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01-18-2007, 10:31 AM
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So, what's their cancellation fee again?
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