Simply being able to sign up the morning of college football season and drop it after BYU’s last game with no additional fees is huge.
The dishes themselves are the problem here. Directv/Dish have to adapt to the new reality, kind of like Blockbuster and Netflix. Directv needs to go all in on streaming and at a price point that competes with YTTV. They can still offer dishes to that dwindling market, but they’ve got to accept that that business model is dying.