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LOCODUDE
08-11-09, 02:38 PM
Free Preview Begins: September 1, 2009 (Tuesday), and

Free Preview Ends: September 7, 2009 (Monday).
hshendon
08-13-09, 08:40 AM
What is in that package? (I know - I am lazy. :-) )
dcowboy7
08-13-09, 12:20 PM
What is in that package? (I know - I am lazy. :-) )

I dont know of a specific list anywhere showing just the XTRA channels.

But what u could in this link just keep doing a find on 'Choice XTRA' & it will show all those XTRA channels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DirecTV_channels
dcowboy7
08-31-09, 03:32 PM
Tomorrow.

(which is now TODAY)
ceevee
09-01-09, 01:29 PM
Thanks. I thought there was a mixup with my channels when I checked them today :lol:
smoelheim
09-01-09, 06:08 PM
Bummer... I thought that DirecTV had FINALLY moved NHL Network to the basic (Choice) package. :(
ronsanjim
09-01-09, 06:23 PM
No Free Preview for International customers. Thats what the CSR told me when I called to see why no Free Preview for me. They stated only for "general" customers, which was the term she used. My "Preferred Choice @$35.99" and $25.99 Filipino packages disqualified me.
NickFluth
09-01-09, 07:34 PM
I was wondering why I was not getting this... thanks for the info... to bad for us preferred choice customers.
ronsanjim
09-02-09, 08:17 AM
I was wondering why I was not getting this... thanks for the info... to bad for us preferred choice customers.

At least this won't affect us when the Premium Movie Channels are in Free Preview. They are available to all, in Free Preview weeks.
whitepelican
09-02-09, 08:33 AM
No Free Preview for International customers. Thats what the CSR told me when I called to see why no Free Preview for me. They stated only for "general" customers, which was the term she used. My "Preferred Choice @$35.99" and $25.99 Filipino packages disqualified me.

I have Preferred Choice, and I'm getting the free preview. It's just a convoluted collection of extra channels that are being received. I believe it's only the channels that are different between the Choice and Choice Xtra packages. For example, my kids have been watching Boomerang for the past couple of days, and that isn't normally included in the Preferred Choice package. I'm also getting Sprout, ESPN Classic, WGN, and a few others I don't normally get.
wipeout
09-03-09, 08:40 AM
I was told that I can not get all of the channels in the freeview because I am a lowly Family Package customer, so no NFL Network which I was looking forward to this week. Oh well.
whitepelican
09-03-09, 10:16 AM
I was told that I can not get all of the channels in the freeview because I am a lowly Family Package customer, so no NFL Network which I was looking forward to this week. Oh well.

Just out of curiosity, have you checked to see if you are getting any channels that you normally wouldn't get? Like I said in the last post, I suspect that the channels that are on the free preview are the ones that are different between the Choice and Choice Xtra packages. What all of those channels are, I don't exactly know, but I've found several channels that I am now getting that I normally wouldn't.
ceevee
09-03-09, 11:18 PM
No Free Preview for International customers. Thats what the CSR told me when I called to see why no Free Preview for me. They stated only for "general" customers, which was the term she used. My "Preferred Choice @$35.99" and $25.99 Filipino packages disqualified me.I have an international package with preferred choice and get the free preview as well.
wipeout
09-04-09, 06:38 AM
Just out of curiosity, have you checked to see if you are getting any channels that you normally wouldn't get? Like I said in the last post, I suspect that the channels that are on the free preview are the ones that are different between the Choice and Choice Xtra packages. What all of those channels are, I don't exactly know, but I've found several channels that I am now getting that I normally wouldn't.

I am getting some that are not part of my normal package but just about every one I would have been interested in seeing during the freeview I am blocked from. If they are offering a freeview to promote the package why not let us all enjoy them.
whitepelican
09-04-09, 07:55 AM
I am getting some that are not part of my normal package but just about every one I would have been interested in seeing during the freeview I am blocked from. If they are offering a freeview to promote the package why not let us all enjoy them.

I believe the idea of the preview is to entice Choice package customers (who, I'm sure, make up a huge percentage of DirecTV's customers) to upgrade to Choice Xtra. I'm sure international and Family package customers are just an afterthought at best.
ronsanjim
09-04-09, 08:51 AM
I'm sure international and Family package customers are just an afterthought at best.

The purpose of a Free Preview is to get the lower packages to upgrade from a lower priced package. Money is money with Direct, not an afterthought.
whitepelican
09-04-09, 09:03 AM
The purpose of a Free Preview is to get the lower packages to upgrade from a lower priced package. Money is money with Direct, not an afterthought.

True, but I doubt if international and Family package customers make up enough of a percentage of their customers to have to re-work the free preview for their advantage. And I suppose DirecTV might consider that people have those packages for a specific reason already, whereas Choice package customers probably just have that as a default situation.