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- tzmguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+100Bars, adult clubs, hotels, restaurants etc. would gladly pay this to bring business in to watch 10 HDTV's broadcasting every PPV event imagineable.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+99> No sane person would pay that much.
Arrr, matie.... nobody evar sed us pirates were sane! - Xtopherous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75DirecTV Titanium will be in the background on every ($20,000) TV in every MTV Cribs house by the year's end. It's a status symbol to show how superfluously (and frivolously) the wealthy can spend their money.
- anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60$62.50 per DVR per month
i pay more than that for my DVR with basic cable and no movie channels - MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49Thank you Canadian law enforcement for not caring about illegal satellites :D
- aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41If you notice it says you can have up to 10 HD receivers... which mean you can split the bill with 9 other people at different houses. 62 bucks a month for unlimited TV!! can't beat it.
- quakefiend, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44to some, a mercedes benz is a status symbol, to others, its a taxi cab
- Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40Yeah, but if you're filthy rich, you didn't get filthy rich sitting in front of the tv all day.
- JakeWalker, on 10/12/2007, -13/+49Brilliant marketing idea. $625 a month is a little pricey, sure, but it's still a great idea.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -8/+43or a rapper who wants it just to be like "I got the titanium package *****"
- drinkGreen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34how much for just porn and sports?
- nomad111, on 10/12/2007, -12/+39Yeah the way Canadian law enforcement views illegal satellites is how the rest of the world views Canada ; )
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26What if they have 10 people in the house watching Pay Per View all the time? I'd imagine it could make for a nice extra if you ran a hotel. One of these plans for every ten rooms wouldn't be too terribly expensive for an upscale place.
- XaNk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26it would be actually pretty cool except directv bitstarves their bandwidth for HDTV channels and downrezzes it. because of that fact alone, i think this would be a dumb package to buy, unless of course you could get the uncompressed stream from the satalite...
- mendicant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27I was just going to mention that. It might be for other types of applications, like say a Hotel or a Housing complex. Imagine the apartment you just rented coming with a HD DVR for only $60 a month. I don't know about you, but I pay over $50 a month for Cable, and I don't get anywhere near that selection.
- DjJason, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I think its mainly for legal purposes, that way if they need to prosecute someone with an illegal hookup they can actually put a price on their "crime".
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27@nomad
Don't you mean the US? The only hatred we seem to get is from our neighbours :p - nomad111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24how much for porn stars playing sports?
- gavroche, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24gotta love canada
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23unless youre a spoiled rich heir or heiress
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I'll be signing up during a leap year. Only 1.42 cents per minute!
- Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22This obviously isn't meant for normal people. It is for the private island, billionaire type.
- Araya213, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Yeah, they're called germans! It's silly to me that people would pay so much for the German equivalent of a Taurus.
- artofwar420, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Someone that is filthy rich and doesn't have other ways of spending their money will do it.
- quakefiend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I bet even after the $625 a month, you still have to watch advertising, making them even more money.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20"Don't you mean the US? The only hatred we seem to get is from our neighbours :p"
*squint* It's well deserved... *dramatic music!* - rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Yeah - I'm sure they wouldn't suspect a thing when they hookup 10 recievers to a single college dorm room...
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Since when does DirecTV use the Wiimote? It's for the porn channels, right?
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14but the taxi's don't have leather interiors, GPS, super duper stereos, and that 5.7 litre V8. Not to mention the hundred other nicities
- techlinks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@ medicant
I think you've got the best idea yet. Apartment/Residence for college. I'll be going to college in a couple years and if I could get an HDDVR and every channel I could ever want. I mean...HELLO!
:P - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I'd almost be inclined to spend that much just to not see that "Please contact 1-800-DIRECTV for ordering information" box anymore.
- miwunderlich, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Well if you spend every single moment in front of the TV, it is cheaper then it would be from iTunes, only $0.86 an hour.
- aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It's doesn't have to be the same complex. You can have 5 different access cards for one account and plug them in all over the country and get one bill.
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16this is a compulsive masturbators wet reality
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seriously, "every adult program" - sign me up! - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16"or a rapper who wants it just to be like "I got the titanium package *****""
Methinks it will have its own street name in 4 months time: "S'all about da T-Pack, dawg!" - Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12that's definately against the TOS, but hey, what they don't know doesn't hurt them.
- rodbibeau, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Do the math......7500 / 12 / 10 = 62.50 per unit per month.
Now go find 9 of your friends with HDTV and start a pool.
This is actually a good deal if you have a need for that many HDTV boxes. - saleens281, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13no, but they do run for 200k miles without needing a 10k$ tuneup every other year :)
- Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Still, if you are a Billionaire Videophile (like the CEO of Monster Cable, who has a big screen HDTV behind two-way glass, and uses that as his bathroom mirror), you would want, and can afford this stuff."
I would do the same thing if I sold cables for with a 10,000% markup - egbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8From the fine print at the bottom of the page "Sporting events subject to game availability rules"
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17how much for just the money shots?
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Where's the a la carte system already!? Let me just pay for the channels I want instead of offering me thousands of channels I could care less about.
- Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9yeah $625 isn't that bad considering you can spend anywhere between $200-$300 per night on a decent hotel room or resort.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8[quote]Yeah, they're called germans! It's silly to me that people would pay so much for the German equivalent of a Taurus.[/quote]
Not really that much. The low-midrange models cost the same as your average American car. Mercedes has a convenient lease repair/exchange program too.
Although, you'll need it. Your average low-midrange Mercedes isn't all that reliable. Lots of electronics and transmission issues. Little things, but frequent visits needed to fix them. - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9i get hd on the internet...
- JakeWalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This deal is for private home viewing only, not for bars/restaurants. They pay much much more: http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/buy/Business_Bar.jsp
- skellener, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Wow! Spend $7500. for ALL of the garbage instead of only SOME of the garbage! -- PASS...
- vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7hook it up yourself... : P
- datagod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Am I the only one annoyed at how slow it is to switch channels? Don't even get me started on how achingly slow the "show guide" is. Can't it cache the data and let me rip through it as fast as I want, instead of looking like an old C64 hooked up to Compuserve on a 300baud connection??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't know, the DirecTV piracy scene has died down over the past couple of years, being replaced with Free-to-Air and some minor Dish hacking. I havn't seen a real "hack" floating around for the latest generation of smart cards at all. Perhaps there are some hacks underground, but for the most part the once thriving business of satellite piracy is all but dead, limited to a very select few.
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