When I signed up with E* a few days ago, the CSR specificly told me the receivers I got 811/301 were not required to be hooked to a phone line. My wife and I each have a CDMA/analog phone, analog isn't available where we live(CDMA antenna is a few blocks away). Anyway, spending money for another product just to do pay-per-view directly seems like a waste. Especially when we can do pay-per-view online(cinemanow for example). The D* CSR told me specificly that I must have all recievers hooked to the phone line or I would have to pay for all programming on each reciever, later mentioned the possibility for a wavier. At E* which receivers are absolutely required to be connected, if any?