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DirecTV may be evil, but none of their (surviving) competition appear to be any better.


Sadly true. Though from a new Dish customer position, you can lease their HD PVR equipment, and most cable companies also lease (usually lease only) their HD PVR. DirecTV you get stuck with the $1000 price tag on a box that I still have no confirmation can or can't support MPEG4.

It looks like I am going to go from the best HD provider (but no PVR) to none at all for a while. Really a shame noone else is willing to adopt some ancient TV standard called HD in any serious way.