Benefit of getting "Premium Package"???

[ChloeP]

I got an email last night from Direct TV saying that today through Sunday is their BIG free preview weekend for their premium package...aaaaaalllllllllll the movie channels woohoooo! So I sit down with my DVR remote all ready to load up lots of movies for watching because we hardly ever get to see movies so even those that are not so new are pretty new to us. I'm scanning through and sheesh...there is nothing anywhere near new-ish on! I mean....6 days 7 nights I watched on Oxygen or Lifetime or something a few weeks ago, it's on one of the special pay channels...Hairspray, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Robin Hood Men In Tights, Meet the Parents.....What the....where is the hook? Aren't they supposed to be trying to suck me in with all this wonderful programming so I can't wait to pay money to get their channel???? I can't even find anything I want to dvr!!!

[ChloeP]

Let me add to that...Edward Scissorhands, Weekend at Bernies and Stargate.....omg! Yes, some of my favorites but from forever ago!!!!

[ThrowCop]

I used to have the whole shebang with DirecTV. Every channel & I still ended up putting in a DVD. There are only so many times you can watch, The American President & Independence Day & Fools Rush In.

[Buffalo]

What time is the Breakfast Club on?

[ALBOB2]

I have DirectTV for the football and hockey packages. If I want to see a movie I go rent one.

[super cool ski instructor]

I used to have the whole shebang with DirecTV. Every channel & I still ended up putting in a DVD. There are only so many times you can watch, The American President & Independence Day & Fools Rush In.

Dude....Fools Rush In? :confused:

[pattyk]

is anyone else getting this offer this weekend?

I looked online and saw nothing about it.

[LouC]

I got an email last night from Direct TV saying that today through Sunday is their BIG free preview weekend for their premium package...aaaaaalllllllllll the movie channels woohoooo! So I sit down with my DVR remote all ready to load up lots of movies for watching because we hardly ever get to see movies so even those that are not so new are pretty new to us. I'm scanning through and sheesh...there is nothing anywhere near new-ish on! I mean....6 days 7 nights I watched on Oxygen or Lifetime or something a few weeks ago, it's on one of the special pay channels...Hairspray, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Robin Hood Men In Tights, Meet the Parents.....What the....where is the hook? Aren't they supposed to be trying to suck me in with all this wonderful programming so I can't wait to pay money to get their channel???? I can't even find anything I want to dvr!!!

Yes you are completely right in what you are thinking.

It is the main reason I discontinued all the premium channels I had with them.

I never really watched them because most of it was garbage, and replayed over and over.

Just not worth it.

I have the option of PPV if I just can't wait for a movie to hit one of the non premium movie channels or I can go rent it for about the same price.

Heck I still have a coupon I got in January for being a good customer that is for Three Free PPV movies that I haven't used yet.

That sounds like a really lousy line up for a preview weekend though?

[LouC]

I have DirectTV for the football and hockey packages. If I want to see a movie I go rent one.

I don't do sports watching and they freak when they can't get me, a male, interested in the sports packages. :))

[LouC]

What time is the Breakfast Club on?

I still like that movie.

But I don't need to see it again for a long while yet.

Love the song at the end and can listen to that any time.

[LouC]

Let me add to that...Edward Scissorhands, Weekend at Bernies and Stargate.....omg! Yes, some of my favorites but from forever ago!!!!

The Stargate movie I will watch any time it is on, (I am addicted).

[CaptPops]

Dude....Fools Rush In? :confused:

It is better than' Safe At Home', with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.

[ChloeP]

The Stargate movie I will watch any time it is on, (I am addicted).


Absolutely, I will too, but it doesn't exactly entice me to purchase their package.

[ChloeP]

is anyone else getting this offer this weekend?

I looked online and saw nothing about it.


I don't know if it's just a direct TV thing or not...maybe that could be the problem the movie channels didn't know they were supposed to kick it up a notch...

[ChloeP]

What time is the Breakfast Club on?


Haven't come across it yet, but Sixteen Candles is on tonight at 7

[pattyk]

I don't know if it's just a direct TV thing or not...maybe that could be the problem the movie channels didn't know they were supposed to kick it up a notch...

my co-worker found it somewhere that we're getting that thing this weekend too.

Directv had this promotion a month or so ago and I found no movie I wanted to watch then either.

not a good promotion IMO

[SFC(R)L]

2 words

D I S H

N E T W O R K

[WhiteHatBobby]

Satellite is a waste. When you're here in a territory that rains all the time, the satellite goes out every rain storm. You couldn't even get NFL games unless you paid for the Sunday Ticket package (the retransmission consent fees are the reason, even the Super Bowl was part of this package), the television blew out in March and we switched from the 15-year old tube television to a new Vizio HDTV. When the Vizio was installed, DirecTV would want us to switch to a new satellite and all of that mess that would cost too much, so we called the cable company and decided to go back to the local cable company, get local community information, and get the most important information of all -- weather and the digital channels. Ironically, the first weekend of cable installation, we got a deluge, and it stayed on.

Also, the local access channel used in cable is a necessity for the SEC market; the local ESPN Broadcast Network affiliate airs syndicated ACC basketball when ESPN has the SEC Tournament on the ESPN Broadcast Network; this is crucial now since the 2010 SEC Tournament moves from Raycom to Disney Television Distribution for the first two rounds, moving to the ESPN Broadcast Network for the final two rounds; our local ESPN Broadcast Network blocks out all ESPN to air the ACC Tournament, and this SEC market has the school pleading to the cable company to help them escape this mess. This affiliate's notorious problem is well-known; as an ABC affiliate, when ABC had the Cup race in Atlanta in March from 1987-2000, they'd start blocking the race for ACC basketball, holding the race until midnight, so people would just try the antenna to get another market's ABC station to get the race; the 2008 Nationwide race at Bristol on ESPN Broadcast was also blocked for ACC semifinals; on cable, the local access showed the race, but on satellite, you couldn't get the race until it was over, as the rain delay showered the race into ESPN Classic, and only at that time did we get coverage.

One thing you learn in an SEC market is when the local ESPN Broadcast affiliate is an ACC affiliate, you need the local cable company to save you from the blackouts.

[ChloeP]

Satellite is a waste. When you're here in a territory that rains all the time, the satellite goes out every rain storm. You couldn't even get NFL games unless you paid for the Sunday Ticket package (the retransmission consent fees are the reason, even the Super Bowl was part of this package), the television blew out in March and we switched from the 15-year old tube television to a new Vizio HDTV. When the Vizio was installed, DirecTV would want us to switch to a new satellite and all of that mess that would cost too much, so we called the cable company and decided to go back to the local cable company, get local community information, and get the most important information of all -- weather and the digital channels. Ironically, the first weekend of cable installation, we got a deluge, and it stayed on.

Also, the local access channel used in cable is a necessity for the SEC market; the local ESPN Broadcast Network affiliate airs syndicated ACC basketball when ESPN has the SEC Tournament on the ESPN Broadcast Network; this is crucial now since the 2010 SEC Tournament moves from Raycom to Disney Television Distribution for the first two rounds, moving to the ESPN Broadcast Network for the final two rounds; our local ESPN Broadcast Network blocks out all ESPN to air the ACC Tournament, and this SEC market has the school pleading to the cable company to help them escape this mess. This affiliate's notorious problem is well-known; as an ABC affiliate, when ABC had the Cup race in Atlanta in March from 1987-2000, they'd start blocking the race for ACC basketball, holding the race until midnight, so people would just try the antenna to get another market's ABC station to get the race; the 2008 Nationwide race at Bristol on ESPN Broadcast was also blocked for ACC semifinals; on cable, the local access showed the race, but on satellite, you couldn't get the race until it was over, as the rain delay showered the race into ESPN Classic, and only at that time did we get coverage.

One thing you learn in an SEC market is when the local ESPN Broadcast affiliate is an ACC affiliate, you need the local cable company to save you from the blackouts.


Cable isn't an option for me, I do not live where it is available.... so if I'm going to have TV satellite is the only way.

We get all our local sports stuff including Sports Time Ohio and Big Ten Network, and like 4 ESPNs I've never had an issue with a game I wanted to watch being blacked out. I'm not a fan of the SEC, so in most cases if there is an SEC game that I want to watch it's going to be on ESPN or ABC.

[ChloeP]

2 words

D I S H

N E T W O R K


I have had Dish Network, we dropped them because they didn't initially pick up the Big Ten Network (they have now, but I like the music channels Direct offers better, so we're sticking with them) But I don't think the movies played on the movie channels changes so much between carriers.

[LouC]

Cable isn't an option for me, I do not live where it is available.... so if I'm going to have TV satellite is the only way....

Cable is not an option for me, and an old TV antenna to get a handful of broadcast stations is not a hell I am willing to live with again and makes the high cost of DTV worth it to me.

The only real problem besides the cost that I have with DTV is the loss of signal during rainstorms, which they swear doesn't happen :)), but they lie through their teeth about that.

One would think if they were trying to entice upgrades during these free preview weekends they would fill the basket with the most smoking movies they could?