We had Dish (and were happy with them aside from bad customer phone service) and then moved to a new house so we took advantage of this offer about a year ago from Direct. This is a great/easy way to get miles. At the time they were offering 30k in United miles. I think I have seen Dish with milage offers too (I don't recall with which airline or how many miles) so once this two year period is up we will switch back but only if there is a milage offer. I think DTV is a few more dollars a month for about the same thing but really these two services are pretty much the identical. IMO anything is better than Comast! One piece of advice with DTV-watch your bill! We had several issues with over billing from them.