DishMover question / decision support

[Thwockage]

OK, I've been lurking in this forum for a couple of years - always a source of great info. I've never had need to post - until now...and am hoping the gurus here can provide some help. We are moving to a new house (new construction) and my first time using the "Dishmover" service hasn't exactly been satisfying thus far due mainly to conflicting information from CSRs regarding what I can/can't do wrt the service.

I have a Superdish at my old house - needed for Baltimore local channels. However, I intend to install and use an OTA antenna at the new house to pull in the digital/HD locals and drop the local channel service from Dish. Given that, rather than have another Superdish installed at the new house, I'm looking to just have a Dish500 installed - mainly due to the unsightly size and appearance of the Superdish.

So - my main question is: am I going to regret doing that from a future HD programming perspective? I will deal with the size of the Superdish at the new house if it means access to future additional HD content. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Todd

 

[boba]

Can you tell the future? What you are asking would take a fortune teller, a year ago it looked like HDTV was going to be on the FSS satellites.

 

[tankerman]

It all depends on how far you live from Baltimore. I live in Cecil County, with a direct line of sight across the bay. I have a 921 and recieve the following HD channels:

WMAR 2 -125%
WRC 4 -75%
WTTG 5 -75%
WJLA 7 -82%
WUSA 9 75%
WBAL 11 -125%
WJZ 13 -112%
MPT 22 -87%
WBFF 45 -116%
WBDC 50 -87%
WNUV 54 -103%

Plus, I can recieve even more that aren't HD.

 

[SimpleSimon]

And, without bothering to look up which one you have, there's two different SD's - 105 & 121. If HD goes FSS, it's probably going to 105. If your area's LiL is on 121, it won't help you for that.

 

[chaddux]

And, without bothering to look up which one you have, there's two different SD's - 105 & 121. If HD goes FSS, it's probably going to 105. If your area's LiL is on 121, it won't help you for that.

Baltimore is on 105.