The installer cometh

Arlene offered to buy me a gadget for my birthday (which isn’t actually until November). No fool I, I immediately took her up on it. On Tuesday, the Dish installer should arrive with a new Dish 6000u receiver that can receive over-the-air and satellite HDTV broadcasts. Dish has a promo: if you sign up for 12 months of their HD package ($9.99 for ESPN-HD, HDNet, HDNet Movies, and Discovery HD, plus HBO and Showtime HD if you get the SD versions), you can get the 6000u for $199. That’s less than half of what a new DirecTV receiver would cost– the best price I’ve seen is around $370 from one of the Google ads appearing on this very page 🙂 Best Buy had an open-box Samsung TS160 that was tempting me until I found out that a) it was $460 with no install and b) I’d lose the “superstation” package that Dish has.
So, by Tuesday night I should be all set to watch Alias, 24, et al in glorious HD.