DirecTV HD Charge

[haydoracin]

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.

[moisheh]

If one watches a lot of TV and you want to stream a high end plan is required. Most unlimited plans are not unlimited. They throttle after as little as 20G. Watching in HD will quickly eat up over 100G a month You certainly cannot ( and should not ) use CG WiFi.

Moisheh

[Bill_Satellite]

2oldman wrote:
I want my DTV!

X 1000!

[eflyersteve]

Wife and I dumped satellite years ago when I put together a spreadsheet of our 'must have' shows and found that most can be purchased in complete seasons for less than we were paying for 3 months of sattelite.

I know it doesn't answer the OP's question, but we certainly don't miss satellite at all and you can take your shows with you. Just need to shift your viewing time to coincide with the season releases.

[2oldman]

I want my DTV!

[Bill_Satellite]

CincyGus wrote:
I use my VZ unlimited data plan to stream Playstation VUE on my phone and then cast it to my TV. Rarely due I not have 2 bars which is what I need to keep a stable picture with only occasional buffering. 3 bars and we are buffering free.

If I don't have the required signal, we DVD it or watch movies I've downloaded from Amazon Prime onto my tablet. I'm allowed to have 20 at any given time and I replace them after watching with something new so I always have 20 we haven't seen yet.

Never been anywhere we couldn't get OTA, a decent cell signal OR power to watch TV. If it was raining so bad we couldn't go out and I didn't have any of the above I have Yahtzee, UNO cards, regular playing cards along with a travel backgammon board. Bring on the apocalypse!

Not sure where you stop/camp but I sure have been a lot of places where nothing other than satellite TV would be available.
Enjoy your travels but don't assume that your experiences are what everyone should expect.

[RJsfishin]

DTV letter says they will replace everything I need free of charge for the
April 30 deadline for SD. Nothing was said about me signing a contract. So I expect my monthly bill will stay the same as it is now. If not, they will not be happy when I give them "the dump" after 22 years, especially after giving me the new equipment. 90% of our tv watching is OTA because it is HD, and because the sats don't supply any of the sub channels
which is what we mostly watch. I can't imagine them charging me for less than I get for free.

[CincyGus]

I use my VZ unlimited data plan to stream Playstation VUE on my phone and then cast it to my TV. Rarely due I not have 2 bars which is what I need to keep a stable picture with only occasional buffering. 3 bars and we are buffering free.

If I don't have the required signal, we DVD it or watch movies I've downloaded from Amazon Prime onto my tablet. I'm allowed to have 20 at any given time and I replace them after watching with something new so I always have 20 we haven't seen yet.

Never been anywhere we couldn't get OTA, a decent cell signal OR power to watch TV. If it was raining so bad we couldn't go out and I didn't have any of the above I have Yahtzee, UNO cards, regular playing cards along with a travel backgammon board. Bring on the apocalypse!

[goducks10]

Alan_Hepburn wrote:

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?

And how do you get OTA channels when you out of OTA channel range. We dry camp in the mtns a lot and using a dish is the only way to get stations. Oregons not like living in mass populated areas.

[FlatBroke]

No NASCAR, God forbid!

[Bill_Satellite]

Right! No Food Network and Mama's not happy. When Mama's not happy no one.....Keep DTV!

[Alan_Hepburn]

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?

[FlatBroke]

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.

[Bobbo]

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.

[wa8yxm]

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).