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1 edit | Just got my letter today Yeah got my letter today. Two months early. Last two years it was a January increase, this year the increase starts November 5th.
Here's some of the pricing scheme in my area:
Standard Cable $56.00
Digital Starter $58.00
Digital Preferred $71.95
Digital Preferred with 1 premium $86.50
Digital Preferred with 2 premiums $98.35
Digital Preferred Plus (HBO, Showtime, Starz) $107.45
Digital Premier (5 premium's) $117.90
The Movie channel is no longer bundled with Showtime at $18.95 a month. Now for a whopping $19.95 a month you can get 2 (count em') 2 SD channels by The Movie Channel! What a deal!  (Ok Borat, here is where you say NOT)
If you want Showtime and the Movie channel, it's gonna cost you $39.90! If you already subscribe to both you pay $28.95! Better cancel before November 5th, unless you really adore that package!
Additional SD Digital Boxes are $8.90 per outlet.
Additional HD Digital Boxes are $13.90 per outlet.
The first DVR is now $13.95. with each additional costing you $18.90.
Looks like if you have any Digital Preferred service with no DVR, you get 1 SD box free, or 1 HD box for $5.00. After that go by the additional box price I listed above.
No mention of CDV Voice pricing, but HSI is listed and that is unchanged. Most of the installation, troubleshooting, administrative, FCC User fee, franchise fee, etc.. are all increasing by some pocket change.
Luckily I'm in the $159.95 gets you everything promo package. Voice, 8mbps HSI, all 5 premiums and the $5 Sports Tier. I'll see an increase in my DVR fee and the FCC and tax crap.
When my promo pricing is done, I'll have to drop to just HBO and the standard HSI package. There's just no value at the regular price point. Our area is behind in terms of HD, and the on screen guide software plain ol stinks. |
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | DTV 72 HDTV channels you say... |
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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | reply to cypherstream
They'll most likely renegotiate that 159.00 promo with you when your time is up. When you're taking everything they've got is when they can be the most flexible it appears.
Heck, even the brochure here in Ct. says that at the end of it...call them and they'll give you a "loyalty discount" rather than have it revert to regular pricing.
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The Coyote captured the RR! Roadrunner Rick is now Comcastic! |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | reply to Mike
said by Mike:DTV 72 HDTV channels you say... ehrmmm HD-LITE. *yawn*
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You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much Bandwidth |
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MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | mpeg4 with directv 10 online now.
hd-lite no more |
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| reply to cypherstream
And to think, when Comcrap took over ATTB in my service area the top tier premium package was $72. By the time Comcast got done with me just 3 years later, the price jumped to $105 and we got less channels. NOw looking at your list it's at nearly $120.
Insane. But in my neck of the woods (now Time Warner) Verizon took increases with both video and HSI.
Even E* has been raising prices and I keep dropping programming and whenever I think about switching to cable I'm shocked by how much they've hiked prices.
Bring on a la carte and force these channels like ESPN to actually COMPETE for business instead of being forced on customers. |
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Sure doesn't appear to be hd-lite to me. Perhaps you should have the service before talking about it. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to Rick
That, like many other services won't come into play until you threaten to leave.
It was nice with DirecTv... I didn't even call them or anything.. they just offered a $10/month discount for 6 months (bringing my 3 tuners of the 'plus' package to $51/month after taxes.
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Its funny... when I left Crapcast in April my bill was $167.90 a month (Digital Prefered Plus, 2 DVR's, 1 STB and HSI). And I had Verizon phone service for $40 a month. Then Crapcast tried to hit me with there invisible cap BS and jack my internet up to almost $500 saying I used 1200GB in the month of December when the modem and computer was not turned on while I was out of town.
It was actually a sad thing that Crapcast had to try to pull this on me. At the same time they were doing this Verizon was putting the finishing touches on the Fiber cables on my street and the county i am in had just approved the TV franchise agreement. Now I know at least 30 people in my area who have told Comcrap where they can shove there service and I know there is more people that I do not know who have made the switch. I constantly see Verizon employees installing FiOS around my area (At least Verizon hires employees to do there installs and not half-assed contractors).
Since Verizon FiOS came into my area in April my bill has gone from $167.90 (Comcast TV, HSI) and $40 (Verizon Phone Service) to $170 a month for FiOS TV with the basic programing package that includes MORE channels then Crapcast did, the movie package (Stars, Encore, TMC) as well as HBO along with 1 Multi Room DVR (Hay Comcast have you ever heard of this product), 1 HD DVR and 4 STB's along with FiOS phone service and of course 15M/2M no cap internet.
I don't know how Comcast can think that jacking up their prices even more can be good for their business. Perhapses if they would concentrate on just providing TV, Internet and Phone and got out of the other crap they are in (Comcast Sportsnet? Who the hell needs that) they could stop wasting money and provide a decent product and customer service at a reasonable price. |
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 Toropop
join:2001-11-11
Vancouver, WA
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I'm usually not a complainer, but I had to laugh after getting my letter today...
"We're pleased to announce our enhanced services available to you on October 31, 2007."
They are adding:
The NFL Network HD
Golf Channel HD
History Channel HD
Food TV HD
Taking away:
HBO Comedy
HBO Family
HBO Latino
Starz! Edge
Sho Too
Sho Too East
More Max
Universal HD
HDNet
Comcast Northwest
Comcast Portland
More Max East
Increasing:
HD DVR from $11.99 to $13.99
HD Package Access from $9.99 to $13.99
Offering HD Plus (to get the new NFL Network HD, etc.) by tacking on $4.99
TiVo Cable Card Package from $0.00 to $6.99 per card (you need two for Series3 or TiVoHD since they don't offer the new M Cards here yet).
Oh, and did I mention that Digital Platinum Plus is going from $129.99 to $149.99.
Am I missing something here? Adding bullshit HD channels, taking away a buttload of premium and HD channels, and having two TiVo cards is REALLY that much of a financial burden for them to jackup my cable bill almost $50.00 a month?
The Comcastic feeling I'm supposed be having needs a little more lube to make it easier to take.
Gosh, I hope I won't be too much of a burden to DirecTV when I call later today to switch. |
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