Back in 1995/1996 I used to pay for Cband TV. I remember, i had every channel i wanted in a package except history channel... I had to shell out an extra 60 cents a month (smile) for History and I got multi hbo/cinemax channels all for just shy of 20.00 bucks a month.... There is good and bad... That bad, you cannot buy any channels any more, but it seems to me, there are far more ITC/FTA channels on the ARC then there were in 1996. - Plus, I have no cable bill. When i was a kid, i grew up in Los Angeles, and we had plenty of channels over the AIR. I knew a friend of my parents that owned a Cband dish, and i fell in love with the concept immediately. Most of the pay/scrambled channels are junk today anyway. - I personally love all the diversified free news channels i can get/watch.