You can subscribe to the lowest HD add on pack for a few dollars more than the HD enabling fee. You'll get the HD feeds, but you'll just be viewing them in SD since you don't have an HDTV. Dish will either add a wing dish or replace with another dish, depending on what you have now.can i use an hd receiver with my existing sd dish setup? I'm not looking for hd but ti seems all new dvrs are hd. does this mean i have to have an hd system or can i use the dvr for sd?