I have had Dish before, and recently (4 months ago) put them back in after having awful Mediacom cable. I a very happy with the service, customer service, quality, great 622 dvr, and number of channels. I don't consider the number of channels to be of much use, many of them right now are mostly stretched sd tv and some offer nothing but junk. I do like some of the Voom very much, Monsters HD is awesome, and I really like Film Festival. But I hope to see Dish sat go up so they can add more, I would love to have MGM HD and some of the Starz HD channels besides the one, and the other HBO, Cinemax, ect.
I won't migrate over to Direct just because they have a few more channels now. Dish will catch up, they have too. Not sure why people seem to be at war here on who has more HD, they both have a good selection...man, it's getting just as bad as the high def hd-dvd/blu-ray wars going on at High Def Digest and Home Theater Forum. Relax. Enjoy.