Direct Tv Auto Sat Ant & Rcvr recomendations?

docj wrote:

AAFD wrote:
From what you said you need a portable unit.

Pros, you can move it anywhere that you have a clear view of the sky.

Cons, if you what DirectTV and HD you need a expensive roof top unit.

KC

This simple comparison is highly misleading because it overlooks the fact that the portable systems can only receive one channel at a time unless both happen to coming from the same satellite. Therefore, they are fairly useless if you have a DVR and like to record one or more channels while watching another. This is true regardless of whether or not you have DirecTV or Dish.

With the "expensive roof top unit" you are locked onto all three satellites at the same time (regardless if they are from DirecTV or Dish) and, therefore, you can receive all available channels simultaneously. Our Genie DVR has 5 tuners available for recording so we rarely have programming conflicts.

It is a true statement that DirecTV HD cannot be received by a portable dish system, but it can be received by an inexpensive manually pointed dish on a tripod. You don't have to have an expensive automatic system.

Furthermore, since DirecTV SD is broadcast from a single satellite (with the exception of some smaller market local channels), you can easily use a automatic portable dish if you are willing to settle for SD.

Yes Joel but original question said simple automatic system under 700, that leaves out Trav'ler HD dishes. Automatic leaves out Tripod manual units. We used a portable automatic direct TV dish and watched one show at a time in SD in our MH.

KC