Comments on: Suggested new movement: “Cord Trimming”

By: Luke H

Luke H — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:24:10 +0000

I think it’s great when people do that but different people value different things.

By: Nicolai

Nicolai — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:46:17 +0000

How about just cancelling your dish/cable service? Most of it is useless junk anyway with commercials every ten minutes. Must be more to life than that…

By: idkidd

idkidd — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:00:21 +0000

I thought this was a really great post; I had no idea about the Dish Welcome Package. I intend to FINALLY completely cut the cord in the next couple months if all goes according to plan and I’m really excited. Having bare bones options like this available make me even more confident that there’s going to be a huge growing shift toward cheaper options. I’m paying $21.95 to Time Warner for local, Cspan, WGN, QVC, ABC Family, and HSN and they just yanked TV Guide channel yesterday. If id know of this Dish option, I’d have been much better off with that. Now though, I just want to be completely done and go OTA.

By: sriram r

sriram r — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:08:50 +0000

have successfully ‘cut-the-cord’ last week.. cannot be more happier.. dish said that it would charge me $17 to ship back the ‘leased’ set top box that is with me for last 6+ years..

By: Lasse

Lasse — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:52:48 +0000

Wow this sounds awfully complicated… Everything needs to be available on demand and on all devices. Everything else is just compromising to accommodate dinosaurs who’re trying to protect their business through scarcity.

By: Daniel Frankel

Daniel Frankel — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:51:43 +0000

No, it’s very clear that you can’t authenticate channels that you don’t subscribe to. Should have said it would offset “some of the” $240 you’d pay for an ultra-basic subscription.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:52:22 +0000

Daniel,
You will only be able stream HBO as long as you have it in your programming package. As soon as that 3mo free trial with DISH runs out, if you dont start paying for HBO you wont have streaming access. Sounds like that may not have been made clear when you spoke with them.

By: Dail Whiteley

Dail Whiteley — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:30:23 +0000

even though comcast is thought of as the big bad guy , whenever i drop a package like hbo or expanded , they have either gave it to me free for a certian time or reduced the price for a few months. saving me 30$ a month.

By: Alan Wolk

Alan Wolk — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:58:02 +0000

In the famous words of Emily Litella “well that’s very different.”

That’s a major piece of news that I’m surprised Dish hasn’t done a major push around – plenty of people would dump their Titanium Platinum package just to be able to get basic + HBO.

Though wondering what the ultimate savings is once you factor internet into the equation: Dish resells FIOS, Earthlink and a bunch of other services. One of the biggest issues right now – which is why the DOJ investigation announced yesterday is such huge news- is the degree to which the major pay-TV providers control access to the internet and how easy it is for them to squash any competitors with things like bandwidth caps and much higher rates for internet-only subscribers.

By: Alan Wolk

Alan Wolk — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:57:09 +0000

In the famous words of Emily Litella “well that’s very different.”

That’s a major piece of news that I’m surprised Dish hasn’t done a major push around – plenty of people would dump their Titanium Platinum package just to be able to get basic + HBO.