If I lived in the WNY area, I would give up SanJose in HD on VS for the Sabres in HD any day. And for us out of town Buffalo fans, the Bills look great in HD on NFL ST (just wish they would start playing great) and on Dish, the 2 minutes on NFL RZ channel was nice.
So did you ditch Dish?
I did, as I basically had no other choice if I wanted the Sabres in HD and the Yankees. I would have moved over to Directv, but they have problems with Versus now and I do get all the MSG feeds in HD now, so for hockey fan its great to the Sabres, Rangers, Devils and Islanders all in HD now.
I miss Dish's receivers however it will take Dish to get the MSG's in HD and some form of YES, to get me back.