DirecTV and Genie

Bill.Satellite wrote:
$25/month for what? Each receiver cost $6 or $7/month, not $25. The technical problem is that DTV does not think you can have a 5 tuner Genie plus 2-2 tuner DVR's as that is 9 tuners and a standard antenna can only handle 8.

I am sure that you understand that a mini-Genie will not get any programming at all unless connect to a Genie (wired or wireless).
Not 100 percent sure what you are hoping to do.

In our stick house we have a Genie (records 5 channels) and two older recorders that each record 2 channels for a total of 9 that can record at the same time.

The antenna (SL3 for us) sees all the available channels from the satellites. Just like an over the air TV antenna, each channel is separate because they are on a different frequency. The cable from the antenna has a wide enough bandwidth to carry all the channels at the same time. This is how it has to work, because when you change channels, your DTV box tunes to a different frequency for each channel.

Your DTV configuration probably has one antenna cable coming (through a SWM power inserter) into an eight way splitter. Any signal coming out of that splitter can also be split again with a two-way or four-way splitter or whatever. Anyway, all of the channels the antenna can see are available on any cable split off from the cable coming down from the antenna. Of course you cannot split the signal too many times because each split lowers the signal strength available to the box on the end. This can be overcome by inserting high bandwidth high fidelity amplifiers although there are eventual limitations with this approach (to say nothing of cost implications).

Think about a cable TV network servicing an entire community. They manage to capture the television signals and split them out to hundreds or thousands of homes spreading over miles of distance.