hd tivo with oval dish

[Nanookz]

I just moved to a new house. My previous house had the 3lnb dish. They came out yesterday and told me that I couldn't get the 3lnb dish but I could get the regular oval dish.

Question is can I still use my hdtivo with a regular oval dish and separate hd antenna?

thanks
Mike

[wmschultz]

You can USE it, but you won't get the Sat B & C channels...

Why can't you get a Triple LNB Dish?

[Nanookz]

My new place has some strategically places trees. What would the sat b&c channels be. I'm assuming that I would loose the d* hd channels. Would I loss any regular channels?

[litzdog911]

You can see which channels are beamed from which satellites here ...
http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/america.html

Most likely you'll just miss out on the HiDef channels, provided that your local channels are not beamed from SatB at 119-deg.

[Lije Baley]

Many installers are unduly pessismistic. They opine that dishes cannot receive a signal, when, with a little work, they can.

[Nanookz]

If sat b is 119 what would sat c be? I checked the listing for 119 and my locals are not listed on there. And I would be okay with losing the channels associated with 119.

As far as the installers go, the first guy that came out said.. Nope you can't get D*. Then the next day his supervisor comes out and tells me that I can get D*, just not HD. Figuring that I record 95% of my HD content from the antenna I figure that I don't need d* for HD.

thanks

[JimSpence]

Sat C is at the 110 location.
http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/directvusa110.html
No locals from it.

[vikingguy]

I am in the same situation. The whole property has the neighbors trees one after another. I have to use 3 round dishes to get all 3 sats. I get 101 through a small hole in the tree line where a storm broke off one of the trees in half. I get 119 from another location I just got a HD-tivo so went to put another dish where the 119 is to get 110 and get a poor signal. I will have to spend next week trying to find a good place to shoot the 110 sat so I do not miss monday night football in hd. The neighbor hates all the dishes I have set up I can't wait till next year when I will need to add 2 more dishes to get all 5 sats. I am hoping when that happens he will agree to let me cut the tops of some of the trees if I agree to only use one dish:).

[JimSpence]

Remember the dish used for 110 needs to use the Sat C LNB. Then its outputs are combined and connected to the 18v/22khz input on the 4x8 or 5x8 multiswitch.

Maybe a 50' tower would work better for you. :)