Dish Customer Contemplating a Switch...A Few Questions

[kpeercy]

I'm currently a Dish customer. I have a 411 running on a living room TV and a two tuner 622 (TV1 HD, TV2 SD) on an LCD in another room with TV2 being my SD bedroom set. Does DirecTV offer such a setup? Do they even have a two tuner HD receiver or do you have to have 3 receivers for 3 TV's?

Also, I get all of the HD channels that Dish offers (minus the premiums like HBO). How does DirecTV stack up as far as channel lineup?

 

[Ronnie-]

Better on sports, fewer premiums (which you dont get anyway).

HD PQ seems to be a little better on D*, equipment a little fast on E*.

Most everything else is the same.

D* does have two tuner DVRs, but no tv 2 output. All outputs are active, so you can run a second tv off of it, but you cant watch two things at the same time, both would be watching the same thing.

To some that is a big deal. To others it is not. For me, I have no SD sets left, so tv2 output would do nothing for me in SD. I see you have a SD set in the bedroom. It probably means more to you. You shouldnt have much of a problem getting another SD reciever for free though

 

[kovach]

Just posted this on the Dish site, maybe it'll help:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-network-forum/192662-switched-dish-directv-first-impressions.html