My husband and I have a DishNetwork satellite connection.?

We only get the basics, no Showtime, Court TV, HBO, etc. because he says he doesn't like movies. I noticed several months after we got the service a warning type message would appear on the tv screen saying that the phone line needed to be connected or we'd get charged. I asked him how that happened, and he gave me his usual vague techno babble about why the phone line was unconnected to begin with. Well, I'm discovering that he watches adult pay-per-view, but I didn't say too much about it. Our computer and TV seem to have an awful lot of cables and wires, way more than other homes I've seen. Anyone have an idea what the heck is going on? There is a tv tuner in the main computer (we network with our daughter's computer), but my husband swears there isn't. I found receipts for video hardware including nvidia stuff, something called a "remote wonder", and there seems to be a tremendous amount of hardware, applications, programs, software, wires, and cables hooked up everywhere. Explain?