Wow looks like you did your research their facts are Directv has 94 hd channels full time in the top package and unless you want 95 music channels out of your 250 channel package directv only has 48 audio channels and b.s. filler channels like starfish, free speech tv and horseracing tv with 15 hsn channels. Why do you think dish is cheaper and as of november it wont even be cheaper they just had their winter offer rollout wich makes each package 15 to 20 dollars more. Dish network is for people who dont care what they get in a channel lineup just to say it has a lot of channels if you want to watch angel one and angel two and starfish be my guest. but where is the biography channel, cbs college sports, discovery kids, mlb network, national geographic in your smaller packages for the people on a budget? you have to pay more to have less with dish if you compare channels period. and no I do not support either company to be honest I prefer internet tv, my schedule all the time for no additional charges but I have compared providers and been really upset at dish network and the channels and pixely picture that they provide I have an antenna that works better after the digital transition. look at the channel comparison on dish’s website for the packages they claim are similiar and all the things it lacks. poor channel showing if you ask me.