New to dishnetwork, should i get a multi-room receiver or 1 receiver per room?

i was given this choice with no good reason for one or the other. the salesman just said the multi-room receiver only counts as 1 receiver, so it's only 1 extra $5 charge a month, while the 1 receiver per TV counts for $5 per room. is there a disadvantage with going with 1 receiver for 2 TVs?

Dont get yer-self snowballed now...

An extra TV is only $5 no matter how you get it hooked up. I get the idea from your wording that you think if you get 2 seperate receivers it will cost you a $10 surcharge instead of just $5.

I currently have 1 dual tuner receiver running 2 TV's and would rather have two seperate boxes. The bedroom TV is controlled with the RF remote and sometimes you have to wave your hand around to get the signal to reach the living room where the box is located. Also, I am stuck using a coax input on the bedroom TV because I refuse to run 60 feet of RCA cable from the living room.

If you had 2 seperate boxes, you could hook them up any way you like (RCA, S-Video, Coax, whatever), and you wont have to hassle with an RF remote.

This is just me, but dual tuner boxes are only good for two things...

You can have dish picture in picture on one TV.

You can record and watch seperately on the same TV. You can still do this using 2 TV's if noone wants to watch someting else on the other TV.

Just my 2 cents.

The dual receiver will save you $5 / month if you connect your phone line to the receiver. Examples are 322, 522, 625 and 942 however the units with hard drives may cost $5 more for the TIVO like feature.

Like everything it has Pros and Cons because the 2nd TV in dual mode is sent as a RF signal (assuming it's at a distance) while separate receivers allow direct video connect. However separate receivers require separate connections from the dish to receiver.