Well, that was more pleasant than I thought it would be. The original installation warranty was most likely 90 days. Long gone, no dice there.

But, as it turns out, even though I spent the extra bucks on an oval dish, way back when, to upgrade to HD I'm going to need a third LNB on the dish. I knew that. DirecTV charges the same for installing a third LNB on my existing dish ($49 + "handling" = ~$68) as for shipping out a brand new triple-LNB dish and getting that installed. So, what the heck, I'm going to let them come out, give me a shiny new dish, and I'll insist it be installed and grounded properly. And, when the installer is here, I'll say "I've got this shiny new ChannelMaster antenna. Whadda 'ya want to install that at the same time?"

The house is already wired for cable TV with a distribution box in the attic and taps in three rooms. I'll get the OTA antenna hooked into that, and then I'll just sit back and keep waiting for my HD-DirecTiVo to show up. So, I won't have HD right away, but I will have decent OTA reception for the spare TV in the bedroom (which currently only gets three channels well, plus a bunch of high-numbered Spanish language channels that I think it's picking up somehow from the cable TV wires).