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I can now see why HD is such a big deal.

Yep. As you saw from my Voom thread, I too really appreciated it. And nearly openly wept when I lost it. (Ok, thats probably an exaggeration, but I was very disappointed to see my huge Voom receiver turn the satelite icon red. It still sits in my entertainment center as a reminder, since noone has asked for it back. It also works well as an off air HDTV decoder.)

My HDTV in the front room now only sees the native resolution being used when I play a computer game on it. While I love the quality of HD, I'm not quite convinced I need to blindly fork over a ton of money to get less then what I had before. Thankfully it is summer where TV slows down, so I can wait patiently for DirecTV to stop showing animated dishes looking to the sky and transition more to a more useful informational phase about their future HD plans. It's now a waiting game to see if Dish keeps my business, or if DirecTV earns it.