My local wal-mart has these at $59 right now. I bought 2 for my kids this weekend, probably will pick one up for myself during the black friday sale, even though I really won't use it much (love my DS)
ive had dish for 2 years but I have never had direct-tv... I don't have a good impression of it from what people have told me, plus the contect provided on Dish seems to be overall better... they are even getting On Demand programming working!