Obviously the diplexer gets the job done for you, and that's great. But for us, I still prefer a separate satellite input for our portable dish. Having both connections available lets us hook up the dish and the campground cable service at the same time. With that setup plus our batwing OTA antenna aimed for the area locals, by flipping a couple of A/B switches, we can handle scenarios like recording two channels at once on our VIP211K with an external hard drive, while watching a DVR'd program on one TV, and a cable channel on the other TV. That situation doesn't occur often, but it's nice to have the option when we want it.
