Pure FWIW. We had satellite since 1995, either Directv or Dish. When the Hopper 3 system came out I switched to Dish from the Genie system (we have 3 TVs) and never looked back, the Dish interface and Hopper 3 system was so superior it was a no brainer. We really liked the PQ and sound and overall interface a lot. Price was a bit high but we were always able to negotiate a decent deal every two years.
Had a forced move cross country and had to be in an apartment until we bought a new house and moved in, so I canceled Dish (total tangent, but the online chat person for Dish was surprisingly poor, I usually get good service that way but when I tried to discuss options for pausing my service this person basically cut and pasted some things some of which had nothing to do with what I was asking, so I gave up and just cancelled.) We got Youtube TV and Philo to fill our interim needs. Covered all of the channels we want and month to month and instant-on. The idea was that this would be interim.
Well, we've moved into a new house. I still really miss the Dish/Hopper 3 interface, I think the YTTV interface is a train wreck. But I was hoping Dish would have the RSNs back by now. They don't and it sounds like these are another set of channels that Charlie has decided I don't need. That's fine, his business decisions, but since it appears his mode is finding channels to get rid of, we're just not real interested in signing another 2 year contract. I never saw my bills go down when he got rid of other channels and frankly, that's not the issue: I'm willing to pay to watch the TV I want to watch, but not pay $130+ a month and "learn to live without" channels as he decides they aren't needed and he can make more money without them. I don't mean that as a personal attack on him, as Don Corleone would say, it's just business. I think it just means I am probably not the type of customer he's interested in keeping.
