Direct TV Receiver

wa8yxm wrote:


An RV account qualifies.. Here is another suggestion,, IF you have a DVR of any kind subscribe to the DNS city on the OTHER side of the country.. That way you get two shots at Prime Time,, In eastern time that is 8-11 pm and 11p to 2am

In Pacific it's 5-8 and 8-11 PM. You can double your pleasure when at or close to home.

What I did by the way (But then I did not have Sat in house).

It's my understanding that your billing address (not service address) determines the DNS feed you receive (east or west); that's true for the folks I know who have it.

Until we got our Genie DVR (HR44) I used to have to juggle recording "slots" and would have liked to have had both DNS feeds. However, with the ability to record and/or watch 5 channels at the same time, we have yet to encounter that problem since installing it.

You SHOULD not get DTV for your home.. Get it for your RV, then put the spare receiver(s) in the house (you will need to either obtain your own antenna (Dish) for the house or use the portable one for the RV and you will need to do your own cabling...

Why is this: Home accounts do not qualify for Distant network Service (DNS) and thus since locals are usually spot beamed, if you move too far from home you can't get those all important daytime drama shows (Or evening action and mystery shows).

An RV account qualifies.. Here is another suggestion,, IF you have a DVR of any kind subscribe to the DNS city on the OTHER side of the country.. That way you get two shots at Prime Time,, In eastern time that is 8-11 pm and 11p to 2am

In Pacific it's 5-8 and 8-11 PM. You can double your pleasure when at or close to home.

What I did by the way (But then I did not have Sat in house).

What I do now.. I have so much over the air TV I can't watch it all, Had to haul about 200 hours of movies off the one DVR and store 'em on this laptop (Which has the space for now) and try to find time to watch 'em when in the land of no good TV later.

Like Bill.Satellite referenced tangentially, the first decision is what antenna will you use? The choice of antenna can significantly impact the choice of receiver. Only a few portable antennae support a Directv HD receiver.

Way to many options to answer your question. 1-4 receivers, HD or not, DVR or not, genie or not ?????? I take my basic receiver D12-100 and my THR22-10 HD/DVR/Tivo from the house to the MH. I run two cables to the DVR so no need for SWM.

That could be troublesome since the new DirecTV hardware requires SWM hardware. The SWM hardware is not built into any of the dome style portable antennas or a roof top manually pointed antenna (but can be added). You could use an open faced antenna that you manually setup and point which has the SWM hardware or an automatic roof top antenna like the Winegard Trav'ler without issue.
Do you know what kind of antenna you are planning to use in the RV? Do you want to be able to watch DirecTV HD programming while in the RV?

Old guy,

Thank you!

Dennis

just get the latest upgrade for HD available. and get a dvr model in case you want to record something you might miss. don't they have the Olympics on two different channels.?