I live in Orange Springs FL, about 40 miles from Gainesville. I watch their TV channels so I hang out in the Gainesville Local Reception forum at AVS. Cox only feeds the town of Gainesville so I can't get their service. I use DirecTV as a back up to OTA which I mainly watch. I get Orlando locals on DirecTV because I actually live in the Orlando FL DMA, just 2 miles south of the Jacksonville FL DMA and 8 miles east of the Gainesville DMA. I am in the middle, but DirecTV goes by address so I get Orlando locals which pleases me fine as I get Gainesville locals on OTA.

So I am going what the guys and girls in the AVS Gainesville thread tell me. That thread is Cox, OTA, Satellite, since it's a small market we didn't separate the threads per provider, so I read all their posts. In the last several month, there was a lot of conversation about DirecTV vs Dish vs COX. DirecTV is out of the game because they don't carry Gainesville DMA locals. Dish just added locals in HD this month there. Cox has had them HD for about a year. So since now Dish has their locals they are truly in direct competition with Cox for customers. After following their threads, Dish was a little cheaper on their 2nd tier which included HD and HD locals than Cox, with a better picture and more channels. Hence that is my source.