Which premium package should I choose?

Question

I have a chioce between getting HBO/Cinemax package or the movie channel package which includes showtime, starz and encore. There both about the same price. Which would you choose and why?

Answer 1

I have the starz and encore package, and it really isn't worth the money, it shows a bunch of older movies and they play a lot of the movies over and over, the only time I watch the movie channel is Saturday night on Starz bc they show a new movie every Saturday night at 9:00.  We are really thinking about swithching to HBO bc they have better and newer movies.  I would advise you to go with the HBO especially if it is around the same price.

Answer 2

Starz/encore - you get 12 channels/5 in HD, just with that and they have the best selection of movies.  HBO and Max have one or two really good movies a month, but the rest is usually junk and they play the same thing over and over for months (which is a waste in the age of DVRs).  Showtime is as good as cinemax (HBO is junk unless you want the most "family oriented" content - G or PG.)

Starz-Encore is one set of channels btw.