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 ·Verizon FiOS
| Hey... how many of you have Fios HDTV service?
I just noticed (as of last month) a bunch of new channels in HD and ... I have to subscribe? WTF? This the big "addition" of HD channels they sold us on? (I'm not talking HD channels like Starz or HBO...I'm talking crappy HD channels like The Green HD channel or...)
So I look up the latest FIOS TV listing (11/2008) and whatch know, they changed their packages! F-cktards! And sneaky with their little ** and *** :
**Subscription to corresponding
Essentials, Extreme HD, Movie or Premium
package required.
***Exclusive to FiOS TV Extreme HD package.
Time to call and give them a rant or two!
(sugar low...) |
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| I have all the HD channels and I'm not paying extra for my package other than the $9.99 HD box rental, not sure if the HD channels are aligned differently in certain areas. |
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JPLPremium
join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1 | said by waiting4fios:I have all the HD channels and I'm not paying extra for my package other than the $9.99 HD box rental, not sure if the HD channels are aligned differently in certain areas. Yeah, it is. Here's the deal. Verizon got rid of Premier, and instead created two new programming packages - Essentials and Extreme. If you're a new subscriber, you have to pick from one of those two. If you were a Premier customer when all this happened, then you were grandfathered in to most of the new HD and SD channels that were being added. If you want the rest then you need to upgrade to Extreme.
The one exception to all this is for folks in your neck of the woods. People in Northern NJ and in NY get all the new HD and SD channels under Premier, if they're grandfathered in. Verizon is trying to grab as many subscribers from NYC as possible, which is why they did this.
All that being said, signing up for Extreme isn't a big deal - I was originally paying $105/month for my triple play with Premier. I upgraded to the new triple play with Extreme which is extra $5/month. But as part of that price I now get all the sports pack channels (the sports pack has been done away with in most of the country - except in NNJ and NY) and the channels rolled into Extreme. And I also doubled my internet speed - I went from 10/2 to 20/5. |
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