DishTV - Multiple TV sets in home (cable, satellite, TVs)

[Stripes17]

I cannot find a clear answer. I'm looking to replace our current cable tv service (my town decided to go into the cable business and they shouldn't have).

In our home we have 7 tv sets. Two have HBO. The rest have standard digital channels as provided by the local cable service. We have a TIVO on one set.

Although we have several tv's they are not all used at the same time. One is in a guest room, three are in bedrooms.

Can someone tell me if the dish providers can handle this many tv's and what kind of service would I need to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

[NHDave]

I believe one of them has a 4 TV package, it's likely they can do 7 but it'll probably cost extra as you need a sat receiver on each TV, just plugging the cable into the TV without a tuner will get you nothing at all, unlike cable.

[kygman]

We have Dish and have 3 TVs. We pay $5/month for the box on the 3rd TV. I'm like Dave, I think they have a deal for multiple TVs, but I couldn't tell you what it is. Right now we have the package with the Top 250 channels, which includes Encore, and we're paying $73/month. But here in Kentucky we have to pay sales tax on satellite signals. I've had both DirecTv and Dish and prefer Dish. I know others will disagree with me but that's why they have more than one satellite TV company, isn't it? lol

[South Range Family]

They can do it by cascading DPP-44 switches together. That switch connects four different satellites together allowing four different receivers. Cascading them together allows eight different receivers. The big question is, are you willing to pay the monthly rental fee on 7 different receivers?

DISH Network DPP-44 VideoPath Dish Pro Plus 4x4 Cascadable Multiswitch (DPP44) 129349 | DPP44 (129349) [DISH Network] | DishPro DP-44 DPP DPP 44 DP44 Dp-44 DP 44 dp pro + 44 switch multiplexer Dish doesn't charge for these switches, but it shows what they look like, and how much they cost to buy. That's why the package price is so high.

[KevK]

Dish will only do up to 6 boxes on a residential account. Anything over 6 requires a commercial account. You will pay $5 for each box over 1 box so add $25 to your bill for 5 more recievers. If you do not use all them at the same time, you can either move the boxes around as you need them (the cards are married to the box so you cannot just swap out cards) OR you can get complicated and build a central system where all the recievers are in one place and run by cable all over the house with remote control extenders. That means anybody in the house can watch any channel in any room up to 6 different channels. But that takes alot of work and technical know how.
As for your channels, they will all be the same on every reciever. Oh, and BTW, they will require that you plug all your recievers into a landline phone line or they may charge you extra for not doing so because people sometimes "cheat" and share accounts at different addresses (I know a guy here that has 2 recievers at his house and another at his mom's house in Tennessee).
But, yes, it can be done. BTW cable TV is going to go digital in a year or so and when they do you will have to pay them for digital boxes in all rooms too.

[NHDave]

Originally Posted by KevK

BTW cable TV is going to go digital in a year or so and when they do you will have to pay them for digital boxes in all rooms too.

There is no timeline for cable providers to stop using analog, it is entirely up to them, I haven't seen anything that said "a year or so".
Cable companies are doing this to free up bandwidth, an analog signal uses the same bandwidth as 3 or 4 digital channles. Thus they can provide more channels, and charge more money.
As a note, this transition has nothing to do with the current DTV transition.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by NHDave

There is no timeline for cable providers to stop using analog, it is entirely up to them, I haven't seen anything that said "a year or so".
Cable companies are doing this to free up bandwidth, an analog signal uses the same bandwidth as 3 or 4 digital channles. Thus they can provide more channels, and charge more money.
As a note, this transition has nothing to do with the current DTV transition.

I stand corrected. I thought the FCC mandated analogue cable until a certain date.

[NHDave]

Originally Posted by KevK

I stand corrected. I thought the FCC mandated analogue cable until a certain date.

Nope, it's only analog on their system, no relation at all to analog OTA, so the cablo co's can keep analog as long as they want.

[albertwhite]

It is possible with any of the dish network but if you use LNB switch with it.With the help of it ,you can share your single dish to multiple tv.
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[southgeorgia]

dish network's dual tuner receivers can be used for two tv's, so your equipment lease would be less. The set currently w/ tivo would get its own DVR receiver, and the other 6 could share receivers bringing the total to 4.