Well woodman, sadly I must report that you are wrong. Maybe it's you who should do your homework. Noone is giving away HD recievers. At least not in my area. I called Dish Net directly and they don't even sell recievers. They said that I would have to go to either Sears or Radio Shack and buy one. But I didn't stop there. There is a Dish Net store in town so I stopped in and talked with them. The way it works if you go with one of the local shop using one of thier's it kinda like cable. You rent the box from them. After a couple of years you could have just spent the couple hundred dollars and been done with it. I think i'll just wait till 2006 when the networks will be forced to change thier format by the FCC.

~C.C.~