Free HBO for Time Warner Cable this weekend
June 10th, 2009, 8:06 am · 13 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
UPDATE COMING: Time Warner isn’t alone in offering free HBO. Cox users are also in luck. I’m checking with all the TV services and will post an update later today.
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Time Warner Cable is offering free access to HBO and Cinemax channels this weekend during what is an occasional premium-channel preview to lure subscribers to sign up for the extra channels. As the promotion coincides with the nation’s June 12 switch to digital TV broadcasts, the cable company is calling it a free “post-DTV transition” preview.
The irony to the offer is that Time Warner customers must be digital cable subscribers to order the service.
For this four-day offer, which runs from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Tuesday, digital cable customers will be able to watch HBO, HBO On Demand, Cinemax and Cinemax on Demand all they want to during the 4-day period.
Channel numbers that will be open for viewing this weekend are HBO on 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510 and 511; and Cinemax on channels 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530 and 531. HBO On Demand and Cinemax On Demand are on channels 1004 and 1005.
Of course, the idea is that Time Warner customers will like what they see and add the premium channels to their monthly bill. Adding one will cost $15, adding two is $27. Per month!
I say chances are low that this promotion will implode on Time Warner, like its 1 cent-movie fiasco earlier this year. That event overloaded Time Warner’s on-demand servers when more customers than anticipated stayed home to watch a cheap movie.
In other Time Warner customer updates:
The SoCal office is offering free 3D glasses to watch “My Bloody Valentine.” The chance to order them on your TV through Time Warner’s new coupons on demand is over. But you can still head to a local cable store by June 12 to pick up glasses. Cable stores in Orange County are in Anaheim, Brea, Buena Park, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Orange, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, Westminster and Yorba Linda. Or check online HERE.
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Time Warner is the worst. Has anyone ever been to the customer service location in Costa Mesa off of Paularino? Worst service/slowest reps ever.
Time Warner sucks!
Yeah, so? My big issue with TWC, and cable in general is, in regards to channels that are not a part of the base service, and, even better, the entire channel lineup, we need to be able to order ONLY the channels we want to pay for, rather than “blocks” or tiers. With this, there would be one price, say $50 a month or whatnot, and then YOU would choose your own lineup. For example, for my service, I would pick the local broadcast channels and PBS, USA Network, TNT, CNN, Headline News, MSNBC, Discovery, History, National Geographic, True (used to be Court)TV, TBS, Turner Classic Movies, Encore, Bravo, and Prime Ticket (so i can see my Dodgers). I might pick more, of course, those are the ones, that come to mind that i watch most. The point is I DONT want to have to pay for the Golf Channel, MTV, and all those channels I never watch. After that, the “Premium” channels could be maybe another $5 a month each. So say I pick my line up above, for $50, and and, on, HBO and Starz, for another $10. Thats $60 a month, ad $16 for the Digital Receiver/DVR, $76 a month plus tax. Much more reasonable than the ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS OR MORE we pay now in south bay if you want digital plus some “premiums.” Times that by a few million subscribers, and the greedy fools will still make plenty of money. Otherwise, they can keep on like its 1987 and they’re the only choice, and lose more customers and therefore revenue. Which makes more sense, Time Warner? Eh?
A la carte? Ain’t going to happen, at least according to the TV analysts I’ve asked. One reason (but not the only): Cable companies like making money from a whole bunch of little channels, which would probably go out of business if the nation went a la carte. While that may not be a bad thing, what if Discovery or History channel viewers were a tiny minority? They could go out of business if they didn’t get enough viewers to pay the bills. Of course, with Hulu and other online options, viewers can sort of ‘vote’ themselves and create their own TV service. An update on this whole a la carte issue is certainly needed…
Thanks Tamara for the update. Was this in the recent newsletter TW sent ?? If so, I didn’t notice it.
It would be nice if Time Warner sent emails to its customers to let them know about these free premium channel events or promote it on one of those free “on-demand” channels, which I occasionally view.
thanks again.
Not sure if the notice was in the letter, but it was in the e-mail. Time Warner also posts updates on its site, which I check daily so readers don’t have to
I have had Time Warner for 10+ years and have always had my problems easily resolved, on top of that I have had hardly an issues at all. I see my father in law who has U-verse from At&t and it constantly goes down, like 10 times a week, at least, the internet goes down frequently too, he has had it for 2 years and has a thick pile of cards from tech’s that have come to his house. I told him I would stick with Time Warner & ditch U-verse because its crap or go back to DirecTV which was a good company.
Time Warner is great out here in the Antelope Valley
Cox is just as bad and they don’t offer any free HBO…that sucks!!!
Cox actually will have the free HBO preview this weekend (Friday, June 12- Monday, June 15) , see the other article by Gadgetress about Cox’s carriage.
I’ve used Time Warner Cable forever..Used to live in HB, now in Costa Mesa…..No problems with TV or service or internet…
I’ve had Time Warner for 11 years, seriously I dont think i’ve ever had a problem. WAY better than Directv, i know that. My mom has direct and it’s always scrambling and going out. Their customer service is only available Mon-Fri 8-5. WHAT?!
I switched to DirecTV in 2007 in order to get the NFL Ticket. After less than 3 months, having gone through two defective (parts rattling) DVR’s, several outages and constant artifacts/pixelation, I choose to pay a $234 penalty to “escape” back to TWC.
And then, two months after returning (on time) the non-DVR receiver I was leasing, I was hit with a $59 “penalty on my credit card for a late return of the box. This was then reversed the next day on my DirecTV bill, but no credit issued to my CC. When I called and asked, they told me I would get a check in 6-8 weeks. Of course, DirecTV would collect interest on my $59 for that time period. I had to threaten a call to the OC District Attorney’s Consumer Fraud Unit to get them to reverse my credit card charge.
DirecTV is an unethical company with the worst customer service I have EVER encountered.