B/c my loving spouse enjoys the Westerns channel on Encore, and it's only available in the "Top 250" or whatever big package, and b/c Westerns is about all he really watches on TV.....we pay almost $125/mo for DishTV. That's about to come to a screeching halt, as we're finally (fingers crossed) getting solid enough internet service that we can stream what we want to watch. Cripes, paying nearly $1,500/yr for the privilege of watching about 12 of the 250 channels is just nuts. We've got other places for that $1,500. I can subscribe to a lot of 'stuff' for that much money!   LOL!