While most of us who come to this and the other major DBS site know about the leasing/buying I'd venture to guess the average D* customer has no idea. While my installer and I were putting up my new Slimline a month ago two of my neighbors asked what it was for. Since I still had the 3LNB up (the Slimline was going in a new location so the old dish stayed in place until the new dish was installed) they thought I was adding some kind of new service like international or internet. They're both D* customers but had their systems installed years ago. They treat it like cable, you turn it on, you change channel, and you watch TV. It works for them. They're happy. Neither have HDTV's and don't plan on getting one anytime soon. The very mention of leasing receivers made their eyes glass over and I was too busy at the time to explain.