I've seen the Dish Network DVR in action, and (at least as of about 9 months ago, the last time I got a chance to use it), it's PITIFUL compared to TiVo. No season passes, no wishlists by keyword (you had to search from scratch every time), and that means certainly no autorecord by keywords, no way to see how much time is remaining in a program you're watching and VERY crude FF/rewind controls, and if you happen to hit Stop while a show is recording (and you're watching it while recording), WITHOUT WARNING (or even an alert right afterwards) it cancels the recording. Yuch, even if Dish's DVR were free, I would want to pay extra myself for using a TiVo with it if I could, the Dish DVR seems that useless to me (after being spoiled by a TiVo for a couple years).