DirecTV HD Charge

DutchmenSport wrote:
Dump it all and just use over-the-air television. You'll be much richer, and won't have to fret over that $10.00 at all.

So, what OTA channel can I tune to in order to watch "Outlander"? How about "The Curse of Oak Island"? Or SJ Sharks games?

A few months ago they raised my bill, it was $135. They lowered it to $72. Give e’m a call. I have a pic of the bill for the naysayers but I don’t use URLs for pics.

DutchmenSport wrote:
Dump it all and just use over-the-air television. You'll be much richer, and won't have to fret over that $10.00 at all.

This is exactly what we did about 3 or 4 years ago. Haven't missed it a single moment since.

garyemunson wrote:
Dutchman must not camp in the places we do. For us, sat is usually the only game in town unless we want to watch DVDs....

DVDs are our solution for rainy days when we can't get outside. We don't even bother with OTA television when camping.

In direct response to the OP's question: no one knows.

DutchmenSport wrote:
Dump it all and just use over-the-air television. You'll be much richer, and won't have to fret over that $10.00 at all.

I did and you know what my problem is... There is so much good OTA TV these days what with the "Tier 2" (or 3.4. N) networks that I do not have time to watch it all. I have about 300 hours of DVR and the drives are fast filling up. the 40 Gig drive has only 15 hours of free space and I just dumped like 12 hours of unwatched movies (Ok so they were not that good) the 250 Gig drive still has room but it too is filling.

OH and you know those ads "Only our over priced subscription service lets you pause. back up. fast forward. start watching in one room. finish in another. download to a portable device and watch anywhere and so on and so forth.....

I pay 25 dollars a year for an Electronic program guide. That's all folks. and do all the above.. FREE software works the download magic. and the DVR's are "Chatty" with each other for the rest.

I also read the EPG on my computer (Server serves it up as a web page) and program the recordings with my mouse... Current server is my Windows laptop. the Win-7 Desktop having a problem I need to get around to fixing (Yes I will fix it myself).

DutchmenSport wrote:

garyemunson wrote:
Dutchman must not camp in the places we do. For us, sat is usually the only game in town unless we want to watch DVDs....

Sometimes, that's really not a bad thing to be electronic free. We do keep a variety of DVD's in the camper. We gave up DishTV and DirectTV a few years ago when they jacked prices so high it insane. We were down to bare bones service and still being charged a fortune. The nickle and diming has to stop somewhere. Maybe for you, this last $10.00 will be it.

$10 will not make any difference and even you can't go electronic free as your DVD player counts as well.
The OP asked a question and, of course, no one knows the answer. The following humor is a nice distraction but we all know things go up in price and so will this.

It will be just like when Dish started charging for local channels. I said I could get them OTA so I don't need them. They told me they have to be included.
These companies only give free and cheap stuff to "new" customers.

garyemunson wrote:
Dutchman must not camp in the places we do. For us, sat is usually the only game in town unless we want to watch DVDs....

Sometimes, that's really not a bad thing to be electronic free. We do keep a variety of DVD's in the camper. We gave up DishTV and DirectTV a few years ago when they jacked prices so high it insane. We were down to bare bones service and still being charged a fortune. The nickle and diming has to stop somewhere. Maybe for you, this last $10.00 will be it.

Dutchman must not camp in the places we do. For us, sat is usually the only game in town unless we want to watch DVDs....

Dump it all and just use over-the-air television. You'll be much richer, and won't have to fret over that $10.00 at all.

haydoracin wrote:
Do you suppose when DirecTV does away with SD channels they will do away with the $10.00 charge for HD? Since you won't have the option there shouldn't be an additional charge.

Now why would they do that???? Well they might on paper. but up the cost of a subscription 15 bucks to make up for the 10 dollar loss. (or 25).