Yes, I just missed the Protection plan at $8. It is not a higher lease payment. Update from Jessica includes a $25 discount on the upgrade price dropping it from $150 to $125. I appreciate the gesture but the whole situation does present a quandary. I think that the original Hopper offers great benefits over the current Genie even though the Genie is a terrific DVR, just a notch below the HOPPER. Three choices that most of us either have faced or will face. In my specific case, keep the Hopper with programming at $100 mo, move up to the Hopper 3 for $125 plus $8 mo for 3 months and incurring a new 2 year obligation, but gaining the extra tuners and a 2 TB hard drive, or jump to "D" and incurring a 2 year obligation, limited to a 1 TB hard drive , but reducing my monthly bill by about $30 mo with no installation charge and no $125 for equipment and a few freebies for 3 months. Assuming you are not unhappy with Dish, and not anti "D", what would you do?