We looked into DNS (east coast or west coast affiliate feeds) and found that it's $15.00 per month plus additional package, or about $100 more dollars a month. That was too rich for us when we had our stick house. Now that we full time, we found we don't need them. We are usually near a metro area and get digital "over air" channels with a Winegard converter box for our old analog TV's. If you are going to boondock you might find the local channels via DirecTV useful. We haven't so far. The DNS rule is FCC regulated, not a Directv policy.