I've said it before, but I'll echo Peggy (and, apparently, myself). The new provider is Rovi and while MAYBE timers not recording might get fixed, the quality of the data will not. If you think the movie descriptions are bad today, they will be bad tomorrow, they will be bad next week, they will be bad next month, they will be bad until the source changes. We don't know the details of the contract with Rovi and how much Dish 'thinks' they might be saving, but we also won't know for up to two years what the impact of this change will be. How many people saying they will leave over this will really do so, and out of that number, how many are under contract until, for example, May of NEXT year? Since the chickens won't come home to roost until contracts start expiring (assuming they come home to roost at all), Dish IS saving money in the short term. Companies no longer think in the long term, it's "bottom line, this quarter's numbers". Period.
So to sum it up, are you having a problem with timers not recording? That might get fixed at some point. Are you having a problem with the quality of the tv/movie descriptions? Get used it, it's not changing.