My experience: I bought the equipment from Rat Shack and pre-paid for a year's service with Direct in order to get a $100 rebate. Half way through the prepaid-year, Direct demanded additional money to continue 5 or 7 Starz (movie) channels. I declined and they ceased. Direct was class-actioned a year or two later, and "settled." I got a check for a few $ in the mail, long after I had dropped them and went to a DBS, digital service. I subsequently switched to Dish for a major monthly savings. (I just have the minimum basic- SciFi, History, A&E, CNN, etc, and I pay annually which knocks off 1 month's cost.) They pi**ed me off enough that I will never buy a GM/Hughes/Direct product ever again, and I had been driving a Chevy for the previous 17 years! I have been very satisfied with Dish for the last few years! (End /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif )
Larry