New to the site...I've sure this has been asked a million times and I apologize right away, I have SD D* TV service at our home in Mn with only 1 TV, I installed the same d* tv dish at our farm/Hunting place years ago and bring the receiver back and forth(only watching it at one location at a time obviously with only 1 receiver) and it has worked great. Here is My question I am going to upgrade My Home D* TV to HD, still only 1 TV(so i would assume i'll get a new Slimline or something outside and a new receiver inside) which would be fine. When I go to the "Farm" would I be able to get SD with the old round Dish but new "HD Box" I bring from home? One more question...when they install the setup at my Home if I buy the same slimline or whatever dish they install can i bring the HD receiver down there and get HD there than(if I upgrade that tv also). Or if You have other suggestions they are Welcome Too.
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as kitty said, you can request an h24.. that way you can change the dish configuration to get the standard definition at the farm house as well.
the biggest part of this is the tedious changing of the configuration when you go back and forth. you don't have to have a slimline dish at the second place to get programming, but it'd be in sd. (if you don't have a hd tv, I would recommend this). If you have an HD tv, you can get a slimline dish with a SWM LNB and align it so you get HD.
It's completely preferential at that point.
the biggest part of this is the tedious changing of the configuration when you go back and forth. you don't have to have a slimline dish at the second place to get programming, but it'd be in sd. (if you don't have a hd tv, I would recommend this). If you have an HD tv, you can get a slimline dish with a SWM LNB and align it so you get HD.
It's completely preferential at that point.
Another option:
If you OWN the sd receiver you have (unlikely, but depending on when you started as a D* customer, it's possible), then you can keep that one, leave it at the farm house and call D* customer service to deactivate/reactivate the receivers.
i.e. deactivate the receiver at your home, reactivate the sd at the farm house, that way you won't get charged for the second receiver.. but it depends on how long you're going to be there. the tedious part here is constantly calling customer service.
If you OWN the sd receiver you have (unlikely, but depending on when you started as a D* customer, it's possible), then you can keep that one, leave it at the farm house and call D* customer service to deactivate/reactivate the receivers.
i.e. deactivate the receiver at your home, reactivate the sd at the farm house, that way you won't get charged for the second receiver.. but it depends on how long you're going to be there. the tedious part here is constantly calling customer service.
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