Converting a Traveler from Dish to Direct
Ever since Dish introduced their new interface I've been so annoyed that I have been considering switching to Direct. The biggest problem with making a change is that Winguard will no longer sell the...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
You cannot change a Winegard Trav'ler for Dish (SK-1000) to DirecTV and receive any of the DirecTV HD programming. Unfortunately, the DirecTV/LNB setup is too heavy for the motor in the SK-1000 to lift. You can install the old DirecTV antenna with the old triple LNB but that setup will only get you the 101 satellite (plus 110 and 119 but there is nothing there) and all of the HD programming is on 99 and 103 which are not accessible with this setup.
You CAN change a DirecTV Trav'ler to Dish but you cannot go the opposite direction. Sorry!
Thanks, I appreciate the info....did not know this.
As to my dissatisfaction with the new UI, It got sprung on me as a completer surprise when I had to replace the Hopper in the house and it came with the new interface. Spent a fair amount of time trying to figure it out and slowly realized that i had lost a fair amount of functionality. Than I spent a lot of time with the Dish tech people trying get it to work with our viewing patterns. Although there were very helpful and even sent a tech out twice to try to help, so I have not complaints on that score. I was reassured that they are elevating all the complaints and working hard on resolving some of the most serious issues.
I figured, OK, the Hopper in the MH would still be fine so it won't affect us while traveling for the summer. Surprise, surprise, when I pulled the MY out of the garage and fired up the sat system it downloaded the new UI so back to square one.
My two biggest complaints is that the search function is really poor in that the search and record function has been totally deleted. Than the recorded programs are now all grouped in bullets but you can not sort them in order of recorded date which make is impossible to find the oldest recording which is how we watch programs.
Just as an icing on the cake, I have lost the auto hop capability and Dish has no idea why.
So, with all that in mind I started to consider voting with my checkbook but the sat system on the MH makes that tough which is what prompted the question of converting it to Direct.
Anyway, sorry for the rant and your responses were all appreciated.
