Directv with your home receiver.
This will be my first winter in Fla. I have Directv (Genie)at home and wanted to take my receiver along with a portable dish and use it. I just purchased a Directv slimline dish with the proper LNB. ...
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Jim,
Local channels in the DTV sense refer to a spot beam transmission from a satellite and the local channels are generally limited to a few hundred miles and then you get no locals unless you call DTV. Over the air (OTA) that you referred to (as locals) are available if you are within about 50 miles of the towers.
Digital video recording (DVR) is our choice and we rarely watch live TV rather watch recordings and skip the commercials.
SWM is the latest technology which allows 8 channels to be transmitted (and recorded/viewed) to the equipment on a single coax. A SWM splitter is required for multiple equipment.
This thread got more involved with connecting 2 DVRs (2 channels each and 2 coax each) along with a Genie receiver (5 channels and 1 coax) with a SWM 8 splitter. And the 9 channels exceeded the 8 available.
None of this applies to your setup but perhaps a future update?
Local channels in the DTV sense refer to a spot beam transmission from a satellite and the local channels are generally limited to a few hundred miles and then you get no locals unless you call DTV. Over the air (OTA) that you referred to (as locals) are available if you are within about 50 miles of the towers.
Digital video recording (DVR) is our choice and we rarely watch live TV rather watch recordings and skip the commercials.
SWM is the latest technology which allows 8 channels to be transmitted (and recorded/viewed) to the equipment on a single coax. A SWM splitter is required for multiple equipment.
This thread got more involved with connecting 2 DVRs (2 channels each and 2 coax each) along with a Genie receiver (5 channels and 1 coax) with a SWM 8 splitter. And the 9 channels exceeded the 8 available.
None of this applies to your setup but perhaps a future update?
