I'm gonna miss this promotion with the Sunday Ticket deal. Hopefully they'll keep something there to sweeten the pot. The wife's not a huge sports fan, but she did watch several Sabres games with me last year as did my kids. It's more the money, a single dish set-up, stuff like that. The programming as far as HD is not a huge factor for her (it is for me) and she wants stuff to "just work". For myself, I'd like to give D* a try, but it's going to boil down to money in the end here as I have 2 mortgage payments until house #1 sells and we haven't even put it on the market yet.