Once the drop SD they will not be able to "offer" anything to make an SD receiver work. DTV has not announced a drop dead date, only their intention to drop SD. It might happen like it happened back in 2001 or 2002 when they activated their spot beams for local Network programming. We all just woke up wondering why you could no longer receive ANY Network programming (FL address, me in CO). Tech support knew nothing and it took a few days before someone figured out what had happened. We have had DNS every since!