DirecTV 101 satellite

C20 wrote:
Good luck dealing with Direct on any issue, i've spent 8 months trying to get one receiver replaced with local channels. Had to dump them and go to Dish, so far so good.

Not sure what you mean here. There is no such thing as a receiver with local channels. I have never had any issues getting DTV to replace or upgrade any of my receivers.

Have not received one single word from DTV concerning this issue.. Does your location matter?

If you don't have any of the really old standard def. receivers you will not hear from DTV.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you don't have any of the really old standard def. receivers you will not hear from DTV.

We currently use a D-12 receiver and a g3 dome. What receiver will be plug and play as a replacement?

I was just on Facebook on one of my RV Topic's and someone posted something to the effect that March 1st was now a deadline. It had 75+ comments but as I was loading those comments, I lost it.


Anyways, I know SD is doomed and I do have older SD only receivers in the MH and one I use in the house on a separate single LNA dish. I also have the HD Dish, Rec/DVR and wireless client in home. My question if Sat 101 will be used still and my Domed (KD) will still work with an upgraded receiver, what entry level HD receiver would be the one that works or will that be determined later. I'm also wondering if my older Datron System being a single LNA dish utilizing only the 101 Sat will still work. It always been kind of hard to find compatible receiver for that system.


Finally, with an upgraded receiver, will that work on both the old Dish and the newer dish?(multi LNB). I suppose many of these questions will be answered sooner than later.

Retired JSO wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you don't have any of the really old standard def. receivers you will not hear from DTV.

We currently use a D-12 receiver and a g3 dome. What receiver will be plug and play as a replacement?

H24 but I don't what a g3 dome is.

The H24 would be the HD replacement if you can get one. If you can't the H25 is the next best but every receiver numbered higher than H24 will require SWM and that's some wiring and a SWM8 switch between the receiver and the dome. I doubt your Datron will work with a newer receiver.

A question that hasn't been addressed yet: many people are still using SD television sets - with the demise of the SD signal from DirecTV will these TV sets become boat anchors? Is Best Buy going to see a big surge in sales come March?

Not boat anchors (other than I think they have been boat anchors for many years) but they will still work. You just need an adapter to take the receivers HDMI output back to coax and you will have down converted to analog that the TV will be able to see.

One item to be aware of is if you update your home to the “latest version” of Genie you will not be able to have other type receivers on the same account... you will be forced to create a separate account