Free HBO preview on now

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plasmacat

Discussion Starter · May 14, 2012

There is a free HBO preview on now thru Wed.

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P Smith

· #2 · May 14, 2012

James missed it ...

Skeeterman

· #3 · May 14, 2012

Amazing, what I can view without a receiver activated. I have a TV and Dish 500 and #508 receiver in my shop/garage. The 508 was activated till last fall and had it deactivated. I generally don't watch that much TV in the shop during the winter months....too cold. Today, while I was cleaning up the shop I turned on the TV and 508 to see what was on channel 240 (sports), as it is a free channel. I was running through the channels and came across the HBO (free preview) channels. I found that I can watch these HBO channels free without the 508 being activated. Well!, for time being till the free days are gone.

Sunner73

· #4 · May 14, 2012

plasmacat said:
There is a free HBO preview on now thru Wed.

No here, you must have a loyalty offer as I don't have it on any of my DVR's. LOL

My bad, I didn't realize I'm in the Dish forum, ouch!

RasputinAXP

· #5 · May 14, 2012

HBO generally doesn't do free previews until new shows crop up.

P Smith

· #6 · May 14, 2012

James will show you - it has been assigned Preview status to 15 HBO channels.

boba

· #7 · May 14, 2012

Yes it does show up in preview mode on my subscribed receiver I get a picture. On my unsubscribed 811 it shows up as green in the guide but I can't watch it.

SayWhat?

· #8 · May 14, 2012

Also listed on the preview channel 103.

Why Mon-Wed, instead of over a weekend?

John79605

· #9 · May 14, 2012

SayWhat? said:
Also listed on the preview channel 103.

Why Mon-Wed, instead of over a weekend?

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James Long

· #10 · May 14, 2012

P Smith said:
James missed it ...

James has a day job ... and if one can't wait for an evening post one can always watch http://uplink.jameslong.name/updates/ for near immediate updates. There is even an RSS feed available.

P Smith

· #11 · May 14, 2012

James Long said:
James has a day job ... and if one can't wait for an evening post one can always watch http://uplink.jameslong.com/updates/ for near immediate updates. There is even an RSS feed available.

Kidding ?! Nothing there - no RSS, nothing, just 404, hehe ...

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coolman302003

· #12 · May 14, 2012

P Smith said:
Kidding ?! Nothing there - no RSS, nothing, just 404, hehe ...

I use this link for RSS http://uplink.jameslong.name/updates/feed/ in Google Reader

P Smith

· #13 · May 14, 2012

That could be right, he post wrong domain name ".com" instead ".name" ...

James Long

· #14 · May 14, 2012

Can't spell my own website ... oh well, something to laugh about.

Jhon69

· #15 · May 15, 2012

This is a very good reason to keep your guide list on "My Channels".I saw the Free HBO Preview Monday morning when I ran through my "My Channels" guide

MrDave

· #16 · May 16, 2012

I find this website to be very handy for monitoring free previews:

http://www.freepreview.tv/

James Long

· #17 · May 16, 2012

Dish has their own link:
http://www.dish.com/preview/

Marlin Guy

· #18 · May 16, 2012

Jhon69 said:
This is a very good reason to keep your guide list on "My Channels".I saw the Free HBO Preview Monday morning when I ran through my "My Channels" guide

Another thing that Dish does right, and the other one has yet to figure out.

mark722

· #19 · May 17, 2012

I was wondering if there was a special promotion going on related to this free preview so I logged on to Dish customer service chat. I just asked the question and was offered HBO for 1/2 price for the next 6 months! I really wanted to see Game of Thrones and catch up on True Blood so I took the offer. It's still $8 a month, but I also get access to HBO on demand which makes it worth it for me.

Bill Van

· #20 · May 18, 2012

MrDave said:
I find this website to be very handy for monitoring free previews:

http://www.freepreview.tv/

The Freepreview website was mentioned on today's HTGuys home theater podcast. For years I have been sending the HTGuys a lot of information to use on their podcasts. So if anyone is interested in hearing their comments it's 4:45 into their podcast. Thanks Dave for posting this here and I'm sure many will find this website useful.

http://www.htguys.com/podcasts/2012/5/18/podcast-531-quantum-dot-display-technology.html

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