Free Dish for 1 year for Directv customers

[bww]

I saw this offer in the LA Times (full page ad from Dish)
Free TV for 1 year includes:
200 Channels
Free HD Channels
Free HD DVR receiver
Free Installation

Must be a directv customer and sign a 2 year agreement. It was for the first 200 people from 11am to 2pm today.

Here is link at dbstalk dish discussion.
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=175911

[Hoosier205]

No thanks. You'd have to pay me to take the inferior PQ of Dish Network HD.

[spartanstew]

Read about that over at avs. Are they getting desperate? Or is it brilliant marketing?

[syphix]

Someone pointed out in the Dish forums that in the "200 HD channels", 57 of them are PPV. That's a lot of bloat in their count!

Plus, with MRV, combined playlist, SWiM, PBS/CW/MyNetTV HD, ability to stream radio/movies on my HR2x, AND DirecTV2PC, I'm staying put. Especially since I'm out of contract at the moment!

[Grentz]

My phone company (CenturyTel, was Embarq) has been trying to get me on dish for awhile now. It was free for a year, and now is $19 for a year with just about everything. The thing that kills it is the 2yr commitment and the fact that it is Dish :lol:

I so wish that CenturyTel would link up with DirecTV vs. Dish :(

[vthokies1996]

I was a Directv subscriber for 5 yrs then had to move to an apartment for 13 months. The apartment did not face in the right direction for me to still get Directv so I was left with only one option.

The apartment complex only option for renters other than satellite, was Ygnition. Which is Dish Network fed into all of the apartments. I hated it. The PQ was terrible. This was right around the time that Dish Network got rid of the Voom! channels and added a bunch of other HD channels in its place. I made several complaints to get those HD channels added.

The only thing I liked about Dish Network was the ability of their DVR to do picture in picture with both of the DVRs tuners. That is a feature I am hoping Directv adds at some point.

Other than that, Dish Network was terrible. Thankfully I was only there for 13 months and have been back with Directv for 2 yrs.

[trainman]

Read about that over at avs. Are they getting desperate? Or is it brilliant marketing?

Yeah, brilliant marketing to people who have the ability to show up at a certain location in L.A. between 11 AM and 2 PM on a Tuesday. I couldn't take advantage of this offer even if I wanted to, since I have a job with a regular "9 to 5" schedule.

[paulman182]

Someone pointed out in the Dish forums that in the "200 HD channels", 57 of them are PPV. That's a lot of bloat in their count!


Not just PPV, but VOD to the Slingbox-enabled receiver only, which means people with no access to broadband can't even get them!