Thanks everyone for all the responses. The receiver was activated by the directv tech when he brought it to the house. The sat dish is an older one (around 2008~09) and will only get SD. I knew this and wasn't expecting HD channels but it seemed like I wasn't getting any channels, SD included. I chose 18" round in the sat setup page, and changed the switch setting from swm to multiswitch. After I got it to show the channel guide page, I went to the menu, display, preferences page and set the "show all channels" setting to "hide HD". I tried to go back and change it back to show all channels again and could not, it was grayed out after I had set it to hide HD. Not sure why it wouldn't let me switch it back. I also had the receiver setup as a single tuner receiver in the setup page, thinking that if I'm not running two coax cables to it (only needed for recording), then I will only be using one tuner. The receiver does have two coax inputs, I wasn't sure if it mattered which one I used, I used the number 1 input. Maybe I should try input number 2? And maybe reset the tuner to a dual tuner receiver?
Thanks again for all the help.
