Hello there I just got Dish installed 2 days ago. I used to have dish years ago when you had to buy everything but I kinda thought things might have changed. I thought the satellite companies wanted to compete with cable? I just stopped my service with Comcast and turned in my 3 DUAL TUNER HD DVRs!! that I only had to pay $6 a month for. But Dish wants me to pay $250 for a 942 or now $299 for a 622?! what is that!!! And I can only have 1? I guess I just don't get why they make it so hard to get the equipment you want and then say they are better than cable! I would agree that overall the picture quality is better than cable on SD but HD is harder to tell the difference. Anyway I am so glad that I did not sign a contract!!! That keeps the ball in my court and we will see what deals come up on Feb 1st, if its not good then back to cable I go and they can come pickup all this crap!!