I'm in the Little Rock area, but thought I'd chime in on this thread, since we're all kind of in the same boat.
I called Dish this afternoon, and spent probably 30 minutes on the phone with "someone" who finally told me it would cost $99.00 to get the dish installed that I needed to get the new HD local channels.
I was willing to pay this (anything to FINALLY get HD locals), but did question her in regards to the comments on this thread. She again put me on hold, and finally came back and said she could do nothing further for me, but could put me in touch with another department that might be able to help me.
The next guy told me no problem.....that I should be able to get the channels, and it was a technical issue, and he'd have someone come out and correct it for me....that it didn't require a new dish.
I told him that I didn't fully understand the ins and outs of sat TV, but I did know my current dish was pointed to satellites 110, 119, and 129 (think thats the ones), and asked him if he could explain how I could get programming off of satellite 77.
He put me on hold a while longer and came back and told me that I would indeed need a new dish. Said they'd take down the current one and install one that could get all 3 of the current satellite's I'm pointed too, as well as the 77 satellite.
Hmmmm....does this sound right????
He assured me that I would be pointed to all 4 with the one dish.
The one kicker, that I can live with, is they had to turn off the local channels (although, they're still on at this point) before he could schedule the new install that will include HD locals.
