If I can give anyone advice about anything, it would be to never get satellite televison.  Take today for example.  It is raining.  Just raining.  Not pouring, not storming, not even snowing.  Just a simple rain, and I can't keep the signal down for more than 10 minutes.  It really blows to try and watch a movie when I lose signal every 10 minutes, and it takes another 10 to get signal back.  I am almost a year into my contract with DISH Network, which I think goes two years so this sucks.  I called them during the first six months of my service when it went out and basically got "reset the box," "wait for the snow to clear," or "we can send a technican out for $100."  So again, never get DISH.