Change 1000.2 EA from 2 LNB to 3 LNB

[goofy_american]

Approximately two years ago, Dish installed a black 1000.2 antenna at my house. It's pointed to the eastern arc.
It only has 2 LNB's - 61.5 and 72.
I questioned the loss of the 77 satellite but the tech stated all the programming was on the other satellites.
Dish has now removed a large number of the standard definition (SD) channels from these two satellites. Many of them have been moved to 77...which I don't have.
We have a 722 receiver and quickly run out of recording space when the programming is only available in HD.
Can I simply change the LNB to a 3 LNB model which will pick up all three satellites? Is the antenna and feed arm compatible? The antenna is already tuned for 61.5 and 72. Would I need to retune it for the new LNB?
Here's the LNB I was thinking about - http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=157092
Advice is appreciated - thanks!

 

[JSheridan]

Approximately two years ago, Dish installed a black 1000.2 antenna at my house. It's pointed to the eastern arc.
It only has 2 LNB's - 61.5 and 72.
I questioned the loss of the 77 satellite but the tech stated all the programming was on the other satellites.
Dish has now removed a large number of the standard definition (SD) channels from these two satellites. Many of them have been moved to 77...which I don't have.
We have a 722 receiver and quickly run out of recording space when the programming is only available in HD.
Can I simply change the LNB to a 3 LNB model which will pick up all three satellites? Is the antenna and feed arm compatible? The antenna is already tuned for 61.5 and 72. Would I need to retune it for the new LNB?
Here's the LNB I was thinking about - http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=157092
Advice is appreciated - thanks!

No, you can't just change the LNB. You would need a 1000.4 EA dish and LNB to get 61.5, 72 and 77 using one dish.

 

[Bobby]

The best advice I can give is to buy an External Hard Drive and move some of that programming off of the 722 and that will leave you lots of space for HD recording. It will only cost you the price of the EHD, there is no monthly charge to use it.

 

[pattykay]

I have the full Eastern Arc including 77, and I am still missing some standard-def channels, so it might not even be worth it to upgrade your dish.

 

[bobvick]

This is probably one of the few posts I have ever seen where someone is wanting SD channels.
Seriously, archiving to an EHD would be a much simpler and easier solution.


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[pattykay]

This is probably one of the few posts I have ever seen where someone is wanting SD channels.
Seriously, archiving to an EHD would be a much simpler and easier solution.

That depends on whether or not you can afford to keep buying hard drives. As I suggested in another thread by someone with the same problem as the OP, upgrading to a receiver with a larger built-in hard drive might be the best solution.

 

[n0qcu]

The BEST solution is to actually watch the shows you record so you can then delete them.

 

[pattykay]

The BEST solution is to actually watch the shows you record so you can then delete them.

Actually, I came up with another solution that might work for the OP: switch the LNB on the 1000.2 to the Western Arc LNB and re-aim the dish for Western Arc. The Western Arc 1000.2 LNB has an input that can be used to add a second dish, so the OP can still get the local channels from Eastern Arc, in addition to the full Western Arc. This will solve the problem as long as the standard-def feeds remain available on Western Arc.

 

[bobvick]

Actually, I came up with another solution that might work for the OP: switch the LNB on the 1000.2 to the Western Arc LNB and re-aim the dish for Western Arc. The Western Arc 1000.2 LNB has an input that can be used to add a second dish, so the OP can still get the local channels from Eastern Arc, in addition to the full Western Arc. This will solve the problem as long as the standard-def feeds remain available on Western Arc.

That is true, but SD on WA is in MPEG2, which will take up more space than the SD on EA which is MPEG4. Unless the OP is proficient in dish pointing, I would just get a 1 or 2 TB EHD, that you can probably get as cheap or cheaper now than a 1000.2 WA LNBF costs.

 

[pattykay]

That is true, but SD on WA is in MPEG2, which will take up more space than the SD on EA which is MPEG4.

I thought of that, but MPEG2 SD should still take up less space than MPEG4 HD.

 

[bobvick]

I thought of that, but MPEG2 SD should still take up less space than MPEG4 HD.

Yeah, probably does. I am sure that there is someone here that knows about how much space it would take vs MPEG4 SD

 

[pattykay]

Yeah, probably does. I am sure that there is someone here that knows about how much space it would take vs MPEG4 SD

For what it's worth, since both the MPEG4 SD and MPEG2 SD are 8PSK now, the difference in hard drive space is probably less than it used to be.

 

[Dish Sub 2015]

I questioned the loss of the 77 satellite but the tech stated all the programming was on the other satellites.

The last time i checked (long time ago) not to many channels had left on 77 any way.

 

[pattykay]

Actually, I came up with another solution that might work for the OP: switch the LNB on the 1000.2 to the Western Arc LNB and re-aim the dish for Western Arc. The Western Arc 1000.2 LNB has an input that can be used to add a second dish, so the OP can still get the local channels from Eastern Arc, in addition to the full Western Arc. This will solve the problem as long as the standard-def feeds remain available on Western Arc.

One other possible solution would be to leave the 1000.2 aimed for Eastern Arc, and add a Dish 500 and a DPP44 switch. This would give the OP 110/119/61.5/72.7

 

[Troch77]

The BEST solution is to actually watch the shows you record so you can then delete them.

Or Better yet, Buy DVDs or Blu ray disks.
Thats the safest way I know how to archive.

 

[Troch77]

The last time i checked (long time ago) not to many channels had left on 77 any way.

There are quite a few more now.
They moved most of the SD off the 61.5 to the 77 that had an HD version.
Check the list.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/thelist/index.php