bpasker8 said:
Stupid question here from someone that is new to satellite tv... What is a Dish Pro Quad or Dual or whatever else is out there? I'm assuming its the number of coax cables that come out of your dish, but what would you need more than one coax?
I think I have two cables coming out of mine into my home, but then can't I just use a splitter on one of them once inside my home and run them to both of my receivers? I'm all set up so I don't have to worry about it now, however we have been thinking of adding a DVR to our two room setup and if I can't run a splitter or diplexer to split my upstairs signal into my 311 (or whatever I have for my non HD TV) and the new DVR we are thinking about getting then I'm hosed yo....
Any help I can get is appreciated...
Here's an abbrivated lesson on how Dishpro works.
Dishpro Twin - 2 satellites, 110, 119 (Dish 500) output to two tuners.
Dishpro Quad - 2 satellites, 110, 119 output to four tuners
Dishpro Single - 1 satellite (whatever you point it at), output to 1 tuner
Dishpro Dual - 1 satellite (wherever), output to two tuners
DP34 switch - combines three satelites (3 singles or twin and a single), and creates the output to 4 recievers.
DP21 switch - combines 2 satellites into one signal for one tuner output. This allows two DP Duals, two DP21's to equal what a DPTwin can do.
Your reciever sends signals to your LNBF (where it's a Twin, Quad, Dual, whatever..). Dishpro send two levels of frequencies (called "stacking") whereas legacy only sends one frequency. Dishpro recievers are backwards compatable, but Legacy recievers (any model with 4 digits, 4000, 6000, 2700, etc.) are not and need legacy switches and LNBF's.
Because of the stacking of the signals, splitters rarely work. Usually, if you go through a retailer or Dish Network to get your add'l rcvr, they'll send a tech who will just swap out the twin with a quad.