The method that allows Charlie to continue making more $$$$$$$$$$. In this case the 921 method which makes you sub to Dish locals pack. That's my bet. He has spent a lot of money to add all those local channels across the country. IF all you have to do is plug into an ota antenna to your sat receiver and you get free guide information from the psip data provide free, where is Dish going to recoup their money on the locals?
I never understood why Dish and Directv for that matter , didn't just add an analog tuner that their dvrs could record from like Tivo did . Then they wouldn't have had to add all those locals on the satellites in space. They could do the same with the digital locals- use a digital ota tuner that can be recorded. They could have worked with congress to allow distant networks in true white areas and areas where ota signal was unusable via a waiver and everyone could have had their locals via the sat receiver and an ota antenna years ago. If they could have done this in all sd dvr receivers say 5 years ago , they could have saved a lot of money and the satellite picture quality could have stayed excellent. It could have remained dvd quality or better. Instead they went the local into local route and we still don't have all the sd locals done in the country yet.
But in the end I say Dish will not provide FREE psip data like the 811 in the newer hd dvr receivers since they need to recoup their investment for local into locals. Dish has gone the cable route with fee after fees. Mind you these are not advertised fees, but hidden fees , you find out when you actually try using their company as a provider. The dvr fee per dvr receiver rather than a whole account fee, like Directv does, the phone outlet fee, the lease fee, the requirement to sub to locals in order to receive guide information for your digital locals, are all newer cable like fees that Dish has implemented in the last few years. Charlie wants to make more money and he is working everyday to create opportunities to make more money for his company , sometimes at the expense of his own customers.
Why do you think that Dish has made a profit all these years and Directv hasn't? Not counting the accounting scandal that Charlie is facing right now.