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fact275
09-14-07, 12:13 PM
I moved into an apartment complex with AT&T Home Entertainment and Directv. I was already a Directv customer. My roommate was paying for AT&T Home Entertainment. Using a destacker, I hooked up my own box and got all of my channels (AT&T only offer a limited selection of DTV channels).

Okay so now the complex is fixing what isn't broke by switching to AT&T/Dish Network. If I get a Dish network box and use my destacker, can I get the full channel selection if I have my own account but use the complex's signal? Since my roommate is paying for AT&T and I'm paying for Directv or Dish, I don't see anything being under the table here.
boba
09-14-07, 12:18 PM
DISH and Directv signals aren't interchangable, if your complex goes to DISH your D* won't work.
fact275
09-14-07, 12:59 PM
No my question is can I get a regular Dish box, with a regular account (and thus all the channels and not the 50 that AT&T offer), and use the unstacked signal that the complex pipes in to all the apartments to make it work?
boba
09-14-07, 01:31 PM
No my question is can I get a regular Dish box, with a regular account (and thus all the channels and not the 50 that AT&T offer), and use the unstacked signal that the complex pipes in to all the apartments to make it work?
Wait until the system is installed and find out what AT&T DISH uses it will probably be a QAM system that won't work with all DISH receivers. See what programming is offered and what satellites you will have access to.:)
fact275
09-14-07, 01:45 PM
What is a QAM system?
CoriBright
09-14-07, 04:42 PM
What is a QAM system?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM
sgip2000
09-14-07, 04:45 PM
What is a QAM system?

QAM is the signal standard that most cable companies use for digital cable. The basics of how it is done is the complex would set up a mini head end and send the signal out as a QAM(digital cable) signal. You would need different equipment to receive this signal.
Michael P
09-15-07, 07:23 AM
So AT&T only offers 50 channels? I can't believe they would go through all the trouble to get the dishes installed and not allow their subs to get the full Dish packages.