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The whole ESPN/ABC network is the worst of any for HD sports picture quality, to the point where it's noticeably bad. You don't even have to do an A/B side-by-side. When you see a little cloud of pixels following fast moving players around, when you see blurry images, you know someone's not...

But you have to be a AAA member? I don't need that.

Well, that sucks for me. I was actually considering getting D* even though it's more expensive. But... HBO, ESPN, TNT, and HDNet are the HD channels I watch most! agggg... any plans to convert these to MPEG4?

I think this one is a lot firmer than the previous dates, since they are now auctioning off the to-be-freed-up bandwidth. I think this will be a difficult, expensive, and contentious process for them. There's the "grandma factor" to consider. By that I mean people who just can't deal with...

I have never been a sat customer and the thing that turns me off to DirecTV is the up-front costs. They seem to want like 5-600 bucks just to set up a simple two-HDTV DVR install. Why is that and is there any way around it?

I think this whole discussion of "nyah nyah you're going to raise your prices we told you so" is kind of silly. Each company will make pricing decisions as they see fit to run their business, and what they said in some press release or PR comment won't really matter. Currently E* seems to...

Well so is Dish Network, of course. it's the way it's done. Cable has to maintain analog channels because they support users with no STB and only NTSC tuners to decode the signal. Right now, "digital cable" is a mix of digital and analog channels. Cable systems are moving towards an...

Actually, Uverse ("AT&T's IPTV product") is only deploying in areas where they are NOT under the cable franchise regulations. And if some local authority tries to put them under cable franchise regulations, they go to the courts, and pull out as a last resort. Their business model appears to...

I actually prefer Urine Flakes over Pee Cheerios. Each to his own taste, I guess.

Another thought.... if you could get together with the other apartments, maybe you could persuade the landlord to install DTV for the whole building. There's a new offering coming up that makes this easier technically (see the thread on FTM - Frequency Translation).

Repeating my question since it seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. Is it true that if I get the Premier package + HD the total cost per month is $111/month after taxes? Or are there additional fees/costs?

Not true... you can install a Dish 1000 dish with a DP Plus LNB and run a single cable to the DP Plus receiver via a separator (which comes with the receiver). You only need to DPP 44 switch for more complex installs with multiple receivers. Note also that one ViP622 DVR/receiver can...

Question from someone considering switching from cable to D*: if I get the Premier package for $100 and the $11 HD access fee, I get: all basic channels all premium movie channels locals HD versions of all the above (where available) an HD DVR for $111/month before tax? That's not...