Given that I own an HDTV with the DirecTV receiver built in, I'm biased towards the DirecTV hardware winning out, BUT there is also the question of the number of boxes that would be swapped out.
According to Dish's website they serve 6 million homes and DirecTV serves 10 million. It would seem (assuming hardware is comparable) that the economics would lie in siding with the DirecTV hardware by a factor of 4 million units.
First question... Is the Dish hardware essentially better?
Honestly, I don't see how they would replace all the built-in components and Dish is (as far as I know) all easily swapped set top boxes. Nothing that I know of has built-in Dish hardware so I'd think that they could avoid the whole kettle of fish by going with the more intrenched DirecTV equipment.
I'd be willing to buy a replacement for what is in essence a DTC-100 built-in to my F38310, but I fear that that will not be an option and I'll have to settle for a cheezy outboard Dish unit as will every other HDTV owner with the DirecTV unit built in.
Honestly I don't care which hardware wins, so long as my TV isn't bas+ardized in the process because of a silly corporate culture decision.
Unless there is something I'm missing (like MPG vs MPG2 or ability to prevent piracy), it would seem that the logic would be to go with the DirecTV hardware.
According to Dish's website they serve 6 million homes and DirecTV serves 10 million. It would seem (assuming hardware is comparable) that the economics would lie in siding with the DirecTV hardware by a factor of 4 million units.
First question... Is the Dish hardware essentially better?
Honestly, I don't see how they would replace all the built-in components and Dish is (as far as I know) all easily swapped set top boxes. Nothing that I know of has built-in Dish hardware so I'd think that they could avoid the whole kettle of fish by going with the more intrenched DirecTV equipment.
I'd be willing to buy a replacement for what is in essence a DTC-100 built-in to my F38310, but I fear that that will not be an option and I'll have to settle for a cheezy outboard Dish unit as will every other HDTV owner with the DirecTV unit built in.
Honestly I don't care which hardware wins, so long as my TV isn't bas+ardized in the process because of a silly corporate culture decision.
Unless there is something I'm missing (like MPG vs MPG2 or ability to prevent piracy), it would seem that the logic would be to go with the DirecTV hardware.