Rumors or not, without Scott's information/input, we wouldn't hear squat from or about Dish.
I agree and I have benefited substantially by being abreast of the rumors, uplink reports, etc. One example is the free installation of a Dish 1000 and DPP44 when I leased my 2nd 622. It was installed the day that the Atlanta HD locals were activated on 129. I already had a wing dish for 61.5 and that is where I, and a lot of other people, assumed that the Atlanta HD locals and HD sports nets would reside. Because of the information from this forum, I conviced the installer to install a Dish 1000 with the required DPP44 for free. I showed him the SatelliteGuys thread and went around with him and the Dish CSR for about an hour, but had them both installed for free with the VIP622 installation.
It was obvious with JohnH's download report yesterday that something was not working as planned and that the new HD would probably be delayed. I think that Dish is planning for the future and I support them in this even though we might have to wait a while longer for some new HD channels. I am happy to have SciFi and USA HD.
Scott and others who post rumors: Keep it up and we should treat them as rumors knowing that there might be a glitz or occassional mis-information put out by the insiders. By the way, DirectTV had to postpone their new HD launches several times until they got the bugs out of their new satellite.