After my D* CSR fiasco, I checked out Dish.

mercury

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Just to help my blood pressure return to normal, after my CSR fiasco documented in a post last week on the DirecTV forum, I got on the web and the phone with DISH to see what it would cost me to exactly replace my D* hardware and services with DISH. I have one HD receiver and 2 DS receivers, subscribe to Total Choice +, HBO, HD package, all the locals in SD, waiting on locals in HD, and NFL Sunday ticket.

So for DISH the cost for install is $49, but they waived that.
Cost for one new HD receiver and 2 SD receivers $0.
Cost for 120 channels, plus HBO $76.
Cost for HD is $9.

So bottom line, Dish makes a switch nearly cost free. What is missing?

Well no Sunday Ticket.
Got to get waivers AGAIN for DISH.

The Sunday ticket isn't a great loss since I will never pay the $99 for HD NFL on top of the $200+ I pay for SD. May cancel it anyway since all I'll get is SD.

Waivers is a pain, pure and simple.

Has anyone made the switch to Dish from D*, if so was it just as irritating as D* has become? Better than D*? Worse?
 
Does DISH offer local channels or is it strictly get it youself using an antenna?
 

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