One issue that I've yet to see addressed in this thread is compression. Dish and DirecTV may not, in some cases, look as good as a CATV signal if the level of compression is high for the digital signal and the analog/CATV signal is of high quality and you're close to the source. I recently upgraded to a high-def RPTV and I use Dish network. The signal is nowhere near "DVD quality" as many of the DSS salesman will pitch. You may not have the interference and ghosting issues w/ a digital signal like w/ CATV, but the compression makes for a poor signal when the image is viewed on high resolutions TVs (and more so if the set is large -- kind of like zooming/blowing up a compressed digital camera picture). Just my 2 cents. Many others in other home theater forums say the same. I didn't know this when I got Dish. I fell for the DSS "all digital" rhetoric. The issues here are similar to the old "analog vs. digital" audio debates (trade off lack of noise vs. compression issues).
