I had DTV for 9 years.
Living in a rural area,cable is not an option.
I wanted to replace a failing DVR and they insisted on a 2 year contract even though I had to pay for the DVR.

I thought about it for a few days,called to cancel my service and they were reluctant to let me do that!

After 20 minutes on the phone,I finally told them that I was moving to a town home that didn't allow a dish on the property and they gave in!

Dish came out a couple days later and installed a Hopper 3 and four Joey 3's for free AND I got a $200 cash card to boot!
Monthly service is also about $80 cheaper per month.

That was about 12 months ago.
So far so good.
The equipment alone blows away my old DTV equipments performance.

The Joey's act just like a DVR so I no longer have to pay for 3 DVR's with two sources with limited FF-RW functions on live TV!