Hi, I just stumbled onto this forum today as I was doing some research. I'm finding some very useful information for sure, but also becoming a little confused. Please forgive me if this should be posted elsewhere, but I think I'm in the right spot. We just moved into a house a month ago, and since I just wanted to have tv service quickly upon moving in, we just transferred our Comcast to the new address. I've grown tired of them and their customer service and a lot of other things. So, with the decision of switching to dish, I did the comparisons of which company I'd want to go with, and it looked like for the channels I'm looking for, and being a sports fan, Directv is the way to go. With that said, I'm pretty sure I know which channel package I'd like as well. I've read that it's better to have more equipment when you sign up, because it'll cost more if you add on later, so instead of just the 2 rooms I was going to have covered, I was thinking of adding an additional receiver to my cart. I was going to go for the whole house dvr also. I've read that some people have had issues with the whole home not working great and wanted to get an opinion on if that's a way I want to go. Basically I really don't want to feel like I'm getting screwed once I sign up and they come out to install my equipment. So if anyone can give me any other pointers on what I should consider before signing up, I'd appreciate it. Also, the previous owner of our home has an old dish network dish on the roof, and the installer ran the cable all crazy through the garage and it looks like a mess. I'm wondering if when I get this new dish installed if they would clean that up and make it look nice, or do I have to watch everything they do to insure it doesn't look like crap. I apologize for this long post and hope it's not too convoluted, but I'm currently a stay at home dad and the moments I have to do research on this aren't as many as I feel I need. I hope I can get some helpful pointers. Thank you much!