Like I posted earlier, DISH likes to play hardball with the channels. They dropped OLN as well. That practice only matters when you are affected, unfortunately. I have friends that must have OLN, and they are now switching to Directv.

Well, funny you should ask, since they just finished the installation of my new Dish setup a couple of hours ago . The current dual tuner DVR model is the 942, but that model doesn't support the upcoming Mpeg-4 HD channels that Dish will be offering, so they are going to be replacing it this year with the model 622. As far as I know, the only major additions are home network support and Mpeg-4 support. From what I've read, everything else will be the same. But after playing with the new toy for a couple of hours, all I can say is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I've used my mother's old DirecTivo quite a bit, and her new NDS version (the model that is replacing Tivo for DirecTV), and as far as I am concerned, neither really holds a candle to the latest Dish DVR interface. This thing is sweet. I used to have the old model 501 where I used to live, and while it worked, the architecture was clearly getting long in the tooth (no dual tuner, no name-based recording, no HD, etc, etc). The 942 adds all of that and a whole lot more. I can also share the second tuner with another TV, which also gives it access to any DVR recordings I've made, including OTA HD channels.

Sorry for sounding like a Dish Network commercial, but I am really happy with this new setup. It is so far beyond the crap Cable One was offering it is laughable.

When we were talking to the salesman about switching back to Dish, he told us about the Lifetime situation, and then looked at my wife and said, "is that going to be OK with you?" She smiled and said "I've never watched it anyway, so I really don't care." Gotta love her!