Dish Network

[SHines-IT]

We are dropping Comcast in a couple of weeks and jumping onto Dish Network. We are going to get the Turbo HD Silver with local. For sure going to have HD DVR in the living and my room (Excited I am the oldest and don't have cable, the little ones do ). But we also have 3 other TV's in the house. I was wondering, like with Comcrap... Can we run those TV's with out a box , to save on money or is Satellite different? Now, I am going to have an standard box that will run two of those TV's since it's at no extra charge. But that leaves one of the kids out of commission. My stepdad said his kids have to have cable, if I am getting cable (They had it all along, why couldn't I, blah ). Oh well, glad we are dropping Comcast at least... I am also check for a new ISP, may try and drop them for my ISP if possible... Not looking so good...

[GoYanks]

So what's the question?

With a box in each room, the kids or whomever can change the channel to whatever station they want.

However, if you want what's being played on the living room tv on one or two of those tv's, then you can connect a cable to those televisions that will echo the same television show.

[SHines-IT]

Originally Posted by GoYanks

So what's the question?

With a box in each room, the kids or whomever can change the channel to whatever station they want.

However, if you want what's being played on the living room tv on one or two of those tv's, then you can connect a cable to those televisions that will echo the same television show.

Actually we have 5 TV's.

Living Room: Toshiba 65" DLP 1080P (Plain to hook up with HD-DVR)
Guest House/My Room: Sylvania 26" 720p LCD Cheapy. Will be replaced with an 1080P LCD/PLASMA in a few months (HD-DVR)
Parents Room: RCA 55" Standard (Standard Box)
Kids Room 1: Samsung 20?" 1080i LCD (Connected to that same Standard Box)
Kids Room 2: Some standard CRT, that IDK how to get a connection for yet?

[Uniquely]

I have DirecTV and it is MUCH better than the Mediacom cable I used to have. The PQ and AQ is better. You do need a box for each tv, unless you want to split the AV outputs from one box and run it to multiple tv's...... but then those tv's would have to watch the same shows.

[Zvi]

I have Dish VIP 722 box and that I'm pretty sure can do 2 TVs

[NJ_RAMS_FAN]

Originally Posted by Zvi

I have Dish VIP 722 box and that I'm pretty sure can do 2 TVs

yea, you can do this but you definetely need a box in each tv. The box guides the dish where to point to a different satellite for the channel requested. <-- My understanding. unlike cable that all the channels run through the cable at once.

and in some places, HD channels aren't available because the HD satellite is on a orbital location that the Dish can't read or point to.