I used to install them as well, it was a very small portion of my business but I will say it was always a pleasure installing them. Usually when customers called me for an install and they already had their own hardware it was a collection of various ebay junk. The glorystar install's always had very nice equipment, a good quality lnb matched to a good quality dish. The receivers we're definitely geared towards a plug and play setup, they didnt offer alot of control over the nitty gritty little details, but this makes them extremely reliable and easy to use. I actually never once ever got a call back from a glorystar customer asking how todo something, where many of the cheap junk receivers I would get customers calling asking me how todo the simplest of things like scanning etc. Many receivers have an incredibly poor user interface. The glorystar ones are really simple to use and update automatically.
If your looking into FTA because the glorystar programming interests you there honestly is nothing on the market that I would recommend over just getting the glorystar package. Its quality hardware that will last you for many years to come.
UDL