I have dish Network .......... AT&T is buying Directv I'm billed by AT&T so pretty sure at some point they are going to make me switch to Directv. So my question for you is are you allowed three of these Genie things and as many joey type gismo thingamobobs as you want. (sorry didn't know what they were called.) Because I have Three hoppers and 4 joeys. I Don't know anything at all about directv!!
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you only get one genie and up to three mini's, but you can have regular dvr's i don't see AT&T making you switch from Dish
They can't make you switch.
You're allowed one Genie, and up to eight Minis. You can also add more DVRs until your home is fill with 'em.
You're allowed one Genie, and up to eight Minis. You can also add more DVRs until your home is fill with 'em.
Someone who prefers a little better picture, or someone with specific channels needs, like any sports fan in the metro NYC area.
Fair enough. It is interesting that someone would need 15 tuners, but to each their own. As the commercials say, Dish auto records the networks, so there's some space you're gaining.
Directv has what's called Whole Home DVR system,that means that you can have 1 5-tuner Genie(preferably the HR44) & as many 2-tuner HD DVR's(HR-24's) as you can handle(you'd need a SWM-16 multi-switch if your combination of Genie/DVR's exceeds the 8 tuner limit that the single cable SWM LNB alone allows. Solid Signal even sells this if you go above 16 tuners http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.as...WM32-(SWM32KIT)&c=Multiswitches&sku=&more=yes . This is essentially 2 SWM 16 multi-switched connected together). Directv allows you to have both the Genie & regular HD DVR's on your account unlike Dish who does not allow you to have a Hopper set up with the ViP 722k(it's either the Hopper with Joeys or ViP 722k's WITHOUT the ability to see each other 722k's recordings).
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