How many dishes?

[Coolnate32]

I have never had dishnetwork before and am having it installed soon, with local channels, how many satalitte dishes will I have? 1 i hope. Also, say I just hooked a antenna up to my satalitte box can I still use the DVR to record the shows?

 

[Widescreen]

You didn't give enough info to say for sure but if you aren't getting HD channels, it will be 1 dish for sure. If you're getting HD then there's a possibility you'll have 2 dishes depending on where you are located. As to the antenna issue, only the HD receivers have over-the-air tuners so, again, it depends on what kind of receiver you're getting (SD or HD). On the HD boxes, if you hook up an antenna, you can DVR those channels. Of course you have to subscribe to Dish services to do that (unless you have one of the older HD receivers). I know this is a bit confusing but you'd need to specify exactly what you're getting to be able to fully answer.

 

[Coolnate32]

You didn't give enough info to say for sure but if you aren't getting HD channels, it will be 1 dish for sure. If you're getting HD then there's a possibility you'll have 2 dishes depending on where you are located. As to the antenna issue, only the HD receivers have over-the-air tuners so, again, it depends on what kind of receiver you're getting (SD or HD). On the HD boxes, if you hook up an antenna, you can DVR those channels. Of course you have to subscribe to Dish services to do that (unless you have one of the older HD receivers). I know this is a bit confusing but you'd need to specify exactly what you're getting to be able to fully answer.

Im getting two 625 recievers for 2 rooms.

 

[Coolnate32]

Im getting two 625 recievers for 2 rooms.

And SD

 

[Widescreen]

Then you won't need an over-the-air antenna as the 625 doesn't have an OTA tuner. And you'll only need 1 dish.

 

[Coolnate32]

Today at radio shack they said something about a second dish too. I wonder.... I guess I'l find out on Sunday.

 

[Jordan420]

If you give your location someone may be able to answer your question

 

[Coolnate32]

If you give your location someone may be able to answer your question

chicago area

 

[Widescreen]

Today at radio shack they said something about a second dish too. I wonder.... I guess I'l find out on Sunday.

My understanding is that Dish has moved all locals onto 110/119 due to government 1-dish mandates so if you don't have HD or the need for international programming, you should only have 1 dish.