If you had actually read you would see that I am having some issues with Mediacom. But they have said they are taking the system down tonight to change a 'node', which they assure me will fix those issues. If that indeed fixes things, then the decision will be to sit tight. If it doesn't, then the decision gets harder because there are solid reasons to pick either D* or E*. Money's the same either way;
D* has more HD Premiums but worse equipment
E* is missing one HD Premium (showtime extreme) that is important to me, but has great equipment.
Possibly this will end up being a coin toss.
But other things have been discussed in this thread. Such as oft repeated "who has best HD PQ"