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DTV to Dish and ?'s.

Dermako
10-21-2008, 09:49 AM
I will set the background so it all makes sense.
We live in the states and have a vacation home in the eastern caribbean. TV there (caribbean) is via "cable" that is obviously pirated with the "Pay your bill" insert that pops up numerous times throughout the day not to mention expensive, $50 a month for 23 channels about half of which are in spanish. It does have the local networks, ABC, CBS, ect., but in NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta and sometimes they rotate to another city.
There are a few individuals that have Dish network via Dreambox and a few other questionable methods on a 4' dish and I was told you cannot get a DTV signal there.
As a DTV subscriber I thought I had the quick and easy answer to this problem. Spent some time in research and found that the DTV signal actually extends further east than the Dish signal. So I sent a 6' dish down (figuring the 6' dish would reach out and touch that DTV sat.) and installed it. Sent down a receiver I had set up for RV use (to get the locals). Then spent the better part of a morning looking for the 101 and/or 119 DTV sat.. The locals were right, you can't get a DTV signal there, even with a 6' dish. But I did find and lock on to 118/119 Dish network sat. and have a 100% signal and this is verified with a Birdog sat. meter. I locked the Dish down at that point and am now attempting Plan B.

I have never had Dish network and have a few questions.

What channels will the 118/119 sat. produce? The top 100, 200, 250 or Everything programming packages.

Will I need to tag the 110 sat for HD programming? Or add another dish.

With the Dish network programming package "Everything", it appears to include HD programming. Am I correct on this?

Can I get US locals (east coast preferred) via RV setup as with DTV? Or is there another way to do this with Dish network?

All your help is greatly appreciated.

garys
10-21-2008, 01:14 PM
I will set the background so it all makes sense.
We live in the states and have a vacation home in the eastern caribbean. TV there (caribbean) is via "cable" that is obviously pirated with the "Pay your bill" insert that pops up numerous times throughout the day not to mention expensive, $50 a month for 23 channels about half of which are in spanish. It does have the local networks, ABC, CBS, ect., but in NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta and sometimes they rotate to another city.
There are a few individuals that have Dish network via Dreambox and a few other questionable methods on a 4' dish and I was told you cannot get a DTV signal there.
As a DTV subscriber I thought I had the quick and easy answer to this problem. Spent some time in research and found that the DTV signal actually extends further east than the Dish signal. So I sent a 6' dish down (figuring the 6' dish would reach out and touch that DTV sat.) and installed it. Sent down a receiver I had set up for RV use (to get the locals). Then spent the better part of a morning looking for the 101 and/or 119 DTV sat.. The locals were right, you can't get a DTV signal there, even with a 6' dish. But I did find and lock on to 118/119 Dish network sat. and have a 100% signal and this is verified with a Birdog sat. meter. I locked the Dish down at that point and am now attempting Plan B.

I have never had Dish network and have a few questions.

What channels will the 118/119 sat. produce? The top 100, 200, 250 or Everything programming packages.

Will I need to tag the 110 sat for HD programming? Or add another dish.

With the Dish network programming package "Everything", it appears to include HD programming. Am I correct on this?

Can I get US locals (east coast preferred) via RV setup as with DTV? Or is there another way to do this with Dish network?

All your help is greatly appreciated.

118 is mostly international and some locals, 119 will get you most (if not all) for AT100.
You will need 110 along with either 129 or 61.5 to get HD.
Everything is AT250 and premium packages for HBO, Cinemax, Showtime (which has the Movie Channel) and Starz (which includes Encore). HD is a separate add on, or you can subscribe to HD only without any of the AT or Everything packages.
Most of Dish's locals are either on spotbeam or going to spotbeam, sd locals on conus are NY, LA and Denver, HD is most of what is on 129. Dish cannot offer DNS as DTV does, you would have to search the site dealing with the subject of "Moving".