I just upgraded my home to HD. I used to have a 501 DVR with the Standard Definition (SD) Dish which has now been upgraded to the new HD Dish. I used to take my 501 DVR with me when I went to my second home and plugged in in to a 2nd SD dish I had installed there. I read that this new ViP211-HD is backwards compatable. Can I take this ViP211-HD to my second home and will it work with the older SD Dish? I know it won't work in HD mode but will it work in SD mode with the older Dish? Any insight would be great! Thanks.
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It will work with the old dish and you will get HD on the channels that broadcast HD on the 110 and 119 sat. You will not get the 129 sat. I know because I did the same thing went I went to AZ. But I did install the 1000.2 so I could get them all.
It will work but you are violating terms of service. You should either set up a Snowbird account with Dish or get a second account for your second home.
The OP shows the location as "so nh" so I am guessing southern New Hampshire. Wouldn't that be EA country? How hard is it to flip flop between the archs like this? Clearly his old system was a 500 or maybe even a 300. Yeah, I have noticed in my area some people never even went to the 500 when that came out.
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