Dish Network customers will be able to see movies from seven different Encore channels for free until July 24, 2012. Encore has a huge collection of movies of different genres, with 33.6 million ...

While Dish Network's proposed offering would definitely be cheaper at $20-$30 a month than a traditional cable or satellite package, it will also likely include fewer channels.

DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling for $1 and the assumption of nearly $10 billion in debt, marking one of the biggest pay-TV mergers ever.