Direct TV portable satellite

mikestock wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:

mikestock wrote:

DickOK wrote:
We are tech. dummies. I see that the portable dome satellites for Direct TV do NOT get HD. It also says they do not get all the satellites as compared to the Slimline roof mount satellite. Does the portables get all the channels but not HD??

Yes. As far as I can tell, mine does.

You can get Nearly all of the DirecTV channels in SD with a dome as Nearly all of them come off the 101 satellite. However, there are some markets that do not broadcast locals on 101 and there are a few HD only channels which are also not on 101. However, in most cases, the 101 satellite (the only DirecTV satellite the dome would be picking up) is all you need.

110 and 119 have no value with my subscription, since all my SD is on 101, however they show up as an option on my King Dome control switch. Am I right to presume they are only work for DISH subscribers?

There was a time when DirecTV had programming on 110 and 119 and you could attempt a locate with one of the other DTV satellites. Now, there is nothing on 110 and 119 only had limited and mostly foreign language programming. The switch was always designed so you could swap between 110 and 119 with Dish as the 129 satellite was not in existence.