Dish HD Installation - Need confirmation

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snowburt80

Discussion Starter · Jul 7, 2008

I've currently got a Dish 500 setup with a Dish DVR 501 (single-tuner). I will be moving soon and want to add HD Dish with a dual-tuner HD DVR. I am in the Salt Lake City area in Utah and I was told I would be getting a Dish 1000 satellite setup. Is this correct?

Next I was told I could just hook one line into port 1 on the DPP LNB (will it come with a DPP LNB??), have that line feed into the SAT side of a diplexer, and have the cable line feed into the ANT/Cable side of the diplexer. Then I could hook that into the one line going into the apartment. Then I use the diplexer inside the home to split the satellite and cable lines. Then the satellite lines will go into the separator and then into the HD DVR. That way I could get cable and 2 satellite feeds in one line.

Is all this correct? And does the dual-tuner DVR come with a separator? I just need some confirmation before I pull the trigger on this.

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BattleZone

· #3 · Jul 8, 2008

Also, most of the time, the satellite line will already be diplexed to carry the TV2 signal. The TV2 signal uses some of the same frequencies as a cable signal, so the two cannot coexist on the same line anyway.

Otherwise, what they told you is true: the 1000.2 dish has 3 DPP output ports, enabling it to support 3 receivers, either single or dual-tuner, without an external switch. Dual-tuner receivers come with a DPP Separator.

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