May I ask why you prefer DirecTV's inferior picture quality to Fios, especially for SD programming? If I could get Fios, I'd go all in. Plus, with a cable card tuner on Fios, you avoid a ton of charges you'd otherwise pay on DirecTV. In my 5 TV household, using cable card tuners and my own boxes is essentially free. With DirecTV it would cost $25 for the main TV and $7 each for the 4 others, for a total of over $50 in fees alone. And with my own system, I have unlimited storage, unlimited streaming options, unlimited tuners, the list goes on. And Fios has 20 more HD channels than DirecTV. My own cable company has 80 more HD channels than DirecTV. As long as cable card exists, I don't ever see myself going back to satellite.