Help me catch up...HD and 6 tv's

[Homebrew]

Hi all,
I finally decided to try and catch up on all that's been happening with Dish Network and found this site. I thought it would be better to try and educate myself before I call Dish to get an upgrade.

Currently, we have Dish and four receivers: three 301's and one 501. I'm doing some basement remodeling, etc. The bottom line is that I want to ugrade to HD and have the potential for six tv's:

Master bedroom: HD + DVR - want to be able to watch one channel and tape another in HD

Office: HD - want to be able to watch HD tv, DVR would be nice, but not critical

Living Room - Currently, have SD tv here, but may upgrade later

Den - Currently have SD tv here

Home Theatre - This will be an HD projection tv, would be nice to be able to DVR movies

Basement area - This area is near the Home Theatre and someday I may put a smaller HD tv in this area.

I have a central wiring closet were all the cable runs and the satellite feed(s) come in. Most rooms have one cable run, but it wouldn't be super hard to run more cables to most places (although they may be fairly long runs).

From browsing the net, I'm assuming I will have to get a new dish, and possibly do a lease/buy combo on the receivers? Anyone have any suggestions as to what dish/receiver/wiring combo I should be thinking about? Thanks!

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

My likely you will get a dish 1000.2 unless you are in a EA area. Having 6 tvs hooked up is not too easy without some costs. Mostly likely you would want 3 HD dual tuner receivers and run the TV2 outputs to your SD sets. Note that none of the HD dual tuners outputs HD on tv2. As for the rules from dish I am not sure other than they only allow 4 leased tuners normally. Some have claimed to get around this but most end up buying the 3rd receiver. Use the online chat to get a good answer from Dish.

 

[Homebrew]

Thanks for the reply...can u explain what dish 1000.2 and EA are? Is there a good place to read the basics? Also, if you run an SD tv that's located in another room off the tv2 tuner, does this mean you have to go to the other room to change channels? Thanks again....

 

[garys]

Tv 2 has it's own uhf remote, unless you are running tv2 to more than one secondary room, you would then need additional tv2 remote for each additional room or carry remote with you.

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

A dish 1000.2 looks at 110, 119, and 129 and also can add a wingdish, usually for 61.5. Eastern Arc is a new all MPEG 4 service that looks at 61.5,72,77 on the dish 1000.4. It has a more eastern look for customers that can not see the western birds but EA is only avialable in select areas at this time. The dish 1000.2 can support 3 receivers or 6 tuners. I believe the 1000.4 is the same.

Both a Dish Pro Plus so they can be used with DPP seperators so that only 1 line is needed to run a dual tuner receiver.