Dish or Directv - Best satellite to purchase

Bill.Satellite wrote:

LVJ58 wrote:
If I'm not mistaken Direct TV receives their signal from a single satellite whereas I believe Dish Net receives their signals from 2 different satellites depending on the channel you select.

We use Dish Net on our coach with a stationary automatic satellite antenna and sometimes when we change channels there's a slight delay while the antenna automatically seeks out the proper satellite for the channel we selected.

Good luck with your choice and safe travels...:)

Actually, you are mistaken. Both DirecTV and Dish use 3 satellites to receive all of their programming if you wan to receive all of the programming. With DirecTV you can point to the 101 satellite and receive the majority of their programming but none of this is in HD. With Dish you can also point to only 1 satellite and receive most of their programming and it is in HD (129) or 72.7 on the East Coast. Dish uses 2 separate sets of satellites for East Coast and West Coast to complicate things a bit more. If you are using a dome style antenna you will not be able to receive ANY of the DirecTV HD programming as the 101 satellite is the only signal it is capable of receiving.

Thanks for the clarification Bill, insofar as the sat antenna on our coach goes into seek mode sometimes when I changed channels I was under the impression that signals were coming from 2 different satellites. We live in the West, NV.

The sat antenna on our house picks up all channels.

Thanks again for the clarification and safe travels....:)