Yes be carefull and fully understand that hobby. Those cards can be looped and made useless anytime then you have nothing. I feel its not the way to go. At lease we always have the true FTA stuff with a FTA receiver and we can watch BEV. I spent the money instead of on the card stuff on a compleate FTA set up and have NEVER EVER NOT had channels. I always have the international channels with my Viewsat.
so read read read that "hobby" cost about $150-$400 a year to play and you ONLY GET DISH and that has to be from STATIC antenna's no motor, no BEV, and NO FTA!