How much money do you have?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 19, 2006, 4:51 pm

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DirecTV Titanuim: $7,500 per year/$625 a month

Posted Jun 18th 2006 11:19PM by Matt Burns

Filed under: Deals, Programming, Satellite TV

If you have money and want every channel, every movie, every pay-per-view event, every adult channel and every HDTV station, you might want to check out DirecTV Titanium. If you don't have the cash to drop down $7,500 a year, which works out to be $625 a month, you can still read on to see how the elite lives. DirecTV is launching their Titanium service that will give subscribers literally everything they they have to offer including 10 HD DVRs and a 24/7 concierge service. The service isn't currently available but if you fill out the form on the website, someone will contact you when it is.

I used to get this for about five years (back in the access card hack days!) ...sad thing is that the local sporting games would still be blacked out with this "Titanium Package" (if no local sell out so the hacked version was still better!)

200-250.00/month for that would be interesting and tempting...not a chance for 625.00/month

Trek · Post by **Trek** » June 19, 2006, 8:09 pm

Excluding a few sports games here and there that would cost me about 26 dollars an hour

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » June 19, 2006, 10:44 pm

Ill be sure to post when my first client signs up for that.... I could put together a kickass distributed video HDTIVO based system where virtually every event was timeshifted and distributed up to an unlimited # of TV's within 1000' of the rack... maybe two or four boxes for just recomendations when you dont know what to watch....20 HD Tuners in the system... possibilities!!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 20, 2006, 12:20 am

The "card hack days" are still alive and well.

My co-worker knows a guy that sells pot out of his car and that stupid piece of poor white trash can get you all those channels for 50$. However, it will cost an additional 10$ everytime DirectTV zaps the area and your card needs a new ID. This happens about twice a year, if that.

Anyone who can afford $7,500 a year for TV dosen't watch $7,500 worth of TV, that's for goddamn sure

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » June 20, 2006, 3:04 am

I'de imagine hotels would be interested in something like this. This seems like something more of a service industry package

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » June 20, 2006, 3:12 am

I assure you that this is personal use only and doesnt apply to commercial clients... Ive seen the billing they do for bars and such.... its like $300-400 a month for basic packages and they really fuck you for HD and premium channels.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 20, 2006, 4:31 am

Fairweather Pure wrote:The "card hack days" are still alive and well.

My co-worker knows a guy that sells pot out of his car and that stupid piece of poor white trash can get you all those channels for 50$. However, it will cost an additional 10$ everytime DirectTV zaps the area and your card needs a new ID. This happens about twice a year, if that.

hmmm, haven't looked into it for quite some time but they were down for a long time after the H card updates.

With the old cards, I had my own programmer and if D* zapped it, I could reprogram it within hours. I also used the programmer itself (MK-11) as an emulator before that (where there was nothing to zap because software was emulating the card on a PC) That was a pain because I had to use an old PC with wires sticking out of it near my home theater with the emulator plugged into the DTV receiver.

I've never paid for a pr0n channel in my life but I sure watched a lot of them when it was free! I guess that supports the theory of some that if it's there you'll watch it, but no loss if it's not. (re: movies people download that they'd never watch in a theater).

Back then, it was fun cat and mouse games with the cards needing programming enough that serious watchers couldnt rely on them but after awhile, the fixes were too good and it became more of a business.

Thanks to Canada for all the hacks. Bunch of deviants up there!

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » June 22, 2006, 10:37 am

Fairweather Pure wrote:Anyone who can afford $7,500 a year for TV dosen't watch $7,500 worth of TV, that's for goddamn sure

Heh, that's exactly what I was thinking. They are probably too busy with their careers to even bother with tv.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » June 22, 2006, 12:40 pm

Chidoro wrote:
Fairweather Pure wrote:Anyone who can afford $7,500 a year for TV dosen't watch $7,500 worth of TV, that's for goddamn sure
Heh, that's exactly what I was thinking. They are probably too busy with their careers to even bother with tv.

Yeah, but they can watch whatever they want whenever they want and not fuck around with paying for it...it's just there. If ultra rich, you'd want to spend your time as efficiently as possible (even if not ultra rich, maximizing leisure time is a good focus) and that would rule out clicking around a pay menu. Billionaires and Millionaires still like pr0n and movies even if they don't watch it as much.

Rich people with 20 sports cars or homes don't drive or live in all of those cars or homes all of the time either!

I think the main issue here is that the internet consumes more time than television for many these days and with the internet, you can usually tailor your time looking for and enjoying the topic you feel like learning about.

You've also got downloadable episodes becoming popular...and, while a wealthy person my not want to take the time to mess with that, they could easily tell someone to load up their portable player with the shows they choose for viewing while travelling, etc.