Dude, relax man. I think we have a right to be a little adjetated. He did say we'd get all new HD through the end of the year and did promise 150 HD by the end of the year as well which means this package is supposed to have 150 HD channels. It does not.
I still like the price and am not ready to jump ship over it or anything but we were lied to.
I WAS ready to jump ship last Sept (was that when turbo was started) when they started Turbo which allowed RSN and wouldn't let us into it at that time. I wanted it for local college football so saying I could have it Feb '09 was worthless... and NO it wouldn't have needed a repoint or equipment change or anything. I would have been paying around $10 more per month but dish didn't want my money then. Part of the salt in the wound was being told for months that we couldn't get RSNs because it was a contractual issue that was still being worked out. When they finally 'worked it out', it wasn't available to us.
Unfortunately, Direct and Cable here is FAR more expensive so I stayed. And I'll continue to stay here as well. I'm not complaining all that loudly about the lying bastards because I know the deal is still good. I still don't like being lied to.
As to those of you not in Absolute, go badger someone else!