OTA HDTV w/o sat service?

[tom1217]

If I stop my satellite service, will my Direct TV receiver still feed OTA HDTV?

[Mark Lamutt]

What, you have both Dish and Direct? If so, great. If not, I'm going to delete one of your duplicate posts.

[tom1217]

No - I'm gathering info to decide which to get.

[LOBO2999]

The answer is yes .

[Aliens]

The answer is yes .

Well I’m exactly sure about this. Interesting that this is being brought up, because just this morning I hooked up my Dish 6000 to see if I can get a better signal than the D* Samsung 360, and while it scanned and found 6 digital stations, it didn’t register anything in the station list. I also manually selected a station, but it didn’t save it to the list. This makes me think the 6000 needs to be activated for it to work. I’d be interested in hearing how I can make this work if anyone has any ideas.

[LOBO2999]

I am not sure about Dish products , but I have a friend who got the 360 and before activating it he hooked up the OTA and got the channels in I don't remember if he had info in the guide or not but the channels did come in.

[LOBO2999]

I also have a Voom box that is dead and I can still get OTA channels on it. There is no info for the program when I bring up the guide.

[bonscott87]

Depending on model you should still be able to tune your OTA stations. However without DirecTV service you would have no guide data or anything like that.

Also, if you don't want sat at all, there are OTA only HD tuners out there. All depends on what you are looking for.

[boba]

Well I’m exactly sure about this. Interesting that this is being brought up, because just this morning I hooked up my Dish 6000 to see if I can get a better signal than the D* Samsung 360, and while it scanned and found 6 digital stations, it didn’t register anything in the station list. I also manually selected a station, but it didn’t save it to the list. This makes me think the 6000 needs to be activated for it to work. I’d be interested in hearing how I can make this work if anyone has any ideas.My 6000 is working as an OTA tuner but I am still sending a DISH satellite signal to it even though it isn't authorized for any programming. :)

[Aliens]

My 6000 is working as an OTA tuner but I am still sending a DISH satellite signal to it

I tried again and I think that is a must with this receiver. All I get is, acquiring satellite signal. I even tried removing the 8VSB/PSK module and that didn't work, so I've given up. The 6000 picked up 15 analog and 7 digital stations, while the 360 pulled in 16 analogs and 6 digital. I suspect the one I’m not getting (CBS digital) via the 360 is the one the 6000 picked up. I’m changing antennas next Tuesday and going up another 15’ or so, so that might enable me to get CBS.