Yes, great news indeed. I was surprised when I got home Wednesday evening and my wife said she noticed Tulsa locals in HD on the guide (722 and 622 receivers). Wednesday evening we had both SD and HD locals via satellite (two separate channels) plus the OTA channel(s). Thursday morning I only see one "-00" channel and it's in HD. Which is fine with me, but it does screw up any timers that pointed to the "-00" channels which will need to be deleted and added back.
I was right on the edge of dropping Dish altogether in favor of OTA only with either an HD Tivo or a DIY Media Center PC. Our problem is that we typically only record shows off the major networks and therefore were limited to only 1 HD (OTA) at a time. We literally had to flip a coin to see who would get the HD timer for each time slot and who would have to record SD off sat. By adding HD locals we can now record up to 3 HD feeds (2 sat and 1 OTA) of ABC, CBS, or NBC if we need to. All I ask is that Fox23 HD be made available before American Idol starts back up or I won't hear the end of it from my wife and daughter.
Now, if Dish would start allowing me to stream/transfer recorded content between DVRs on a home network I'd be in heaven. For now I have to record the same content in two different rooms AND remember to delete the shows off "receiver 2" after watching it on "receiver 1".