72 ESPN 2 HD that i would want so i guess it would have to be installed in the back yard. Like i said i want the ESPN's in HD so i will have to place it in the back yard... But i thought i heard they were doing away with that Bird? Is their a place where their is a list of what channels are on what satellites for Directv? The List here doesn't really show whats HD and is missing the other 2 birds(103 and 99)..
You don't need sat. 119 to get ESPN2 HD. You won’t be able to get it on 72 but you will be able to get it on 209 and that channel is MPEG 4.
Also HD net you will be able to get it on 306 and that is MPEG 4. Those are the new channels and they are coming of sat. 99.
I am not getting 119 and the only problem I had was that my receiver was freezing a lot with the message Multi-switch problem. That was because when your receiver is on satellite 103, 110 and 119 the program guide is coming of 119, and when the receiver is on 101 the guide is coming of 101. I am not sure about sat. 99.
So if you watch channel that is on 103(most of the HD channels are on 103) then after a wile about 15-20 hours, your receiver will freeze because I think is not able to get the programming guide.
The way to fix this is to tune on SD channel a lot or to program your receiver on some SD channel after midnight so it will be able to get the programming guide. I watch only HD channels so I almost never use 101, and I programmed the receiver to tune on channel 12, dally at 2:00am, and since then my receiver works great.
The other channels that you won’t be able to get are the Spanish channels