As has been reported by others, including myself, these days the HD feeds do not even seem to require HD Free For Life. They are available in Welcome Pack, Smart Pack, and the Dish America packages whether you have HD Free For Life or not. My guess would be that Dish is doing away with the HD Free For Life requirements and will simply include the HD feed automatically with a subscription to the standard-def feed in every base package.Some tried to say if you have HD for life those channels should be in HD, and that would be incorrect.