•High Def Tivo
•Local OTA HD antenna that installer will integrate with my DTV coax lines
•6 months of free showtime
• the installer will move my old SD tivo to a new location in t he house, diplex and run more lines as needed so I get my old dual tuner Tivo on the upstairs TV.
All for $289. :eek: (199+50 for the OTA antenna + tax + shipping) These Tivo units alone are retailing for $649 right now. Actually I paid $389 out of pocket but a $100 rebate check is on its way. You also must commit to 2 years with DTV but as long as they have the NFL package I’m not going anywhere.
Here’s the links I was given when I heard about it, what you need to say and the #s to call are contained within:
Mods, I’m not a DirecTV or Tivo employee, nor do I have any financial stake in this at all. I was just floored by a great deal and wanted to share with the folks round here who might care about it.
Without your insight, I would have never realized that adding things to your order makes it more expensive, that shipping and sales tax are marketing schemes, and that rebate checks aren’t real money and they’re just a well played joke.
Thanks for your quality post here. Math is hard!
:rolleyes:
I have HDTV and an DVR that records in HDTV, but through cable, and I also have my DSL line with them so the entire package, with Showtime and HBO and Starz costs a nice chunk of change per month…$118.00 to be exact.
I have considered DISH but have heard some good, and some bad. The good is the price, which your deal sounds pretty good. The bad is the extra fees for local programming, the weather factor with reception, customer service, technical support plus a limit of four connections per dish.
Start another thread in a few weeks/months to say how things are going (seriously) as I would be interested in hearing more. Still consider DISH an option, especially when that cable bill arrives every month.
We have DirecTV with DVR. I don’t remember what it cost to set up, but it must have been a bargain or we wouldn’t have done it. Local programming is an extra $10 a month, and we’ve had good response with customer service.
The weather factor is a minor problem. We lose the signal when it starts to rain, which I can understand, except that the signal returns while it’s still raining – that’s puzzling to me.
So far I haven’t lost the signal during a program I care about. Weird.
We might have stayed with cable, except that the cable company serving our area offered less than 20 channels, and only one premium channel (HBO, and only one HBO). It felt like I was back in the 60’s.
Once you’ve had DirecTV with HD Tivo, you can never go back!
The price you are paying for the HD Tivo unit is impressive. We paid a lot more than that less than six months ago. The prospect of watching Deadwood in HD made me fling money at Best Buy. It’s been grand.
… though Dish TV sounds nice… especially since Comcast gouges you. I mean I got a dual tuner DVR and they charge me twice for DVR service because of the dual tuners?! WTF?
I have been with DTV for about 4 years now and the weather issue is not a problem. It may flicker for a few minutes here and there with a storm but you never get any of the outages for hours that I remember with cable. I think I pay an extra $6 a month for local channels. The HD package is another $11 a month. For now, DTV’s local package does not include the HD channels (hence the need for the OTA antenna) but in the near future they are going to start broadcasting them so you soon (don’t know exactly when) need the OTA HD antenna.
more here on the new satellite that’s giving them this capability:
And, I’m horrible about starting threads in the future about what I am thinking about now. It’s just cause I’m forgetful, so shoot me a email if you are thinking about it and have any questions for me.
that sucks!