I think DirecTV works like the health care industry. Really, they are only dissapointing maybe 1% of their customer base. MAYBE 1%. Probably much less. The rest of their subs have no idea. Remember the recent data that came out showing that less than half of ps3 and 360 owners even know their devices do HD? Much less even know what HD is? Ok, equate that with DTV. I know people who have HR-20's and H-20's in their house, and an HDTV, and they are using composite because that's what the "satellite guy" installed. I believe them. Ive seen installers who could care less and want to run to the next call.
So...give DTV a break. They don't care about us. They care about the 99.8% of their customer base who has no idea this is coming, and probably doesn't care that much.
That being said, I'm one of those that watches only HD stuff, and this is annoying to me to have to wait and keep waiting. But, I don't expect better from DTV. I expect to have to wait. They've never shown me in the past they care about their customers...so...why the expectation?