FL resident with CT address needs help in considering switch to H20/5 LNB dish

[gs5150]

This is my first post. I am a DirecTV subscriber who lives in Florida. For a variety of reasons my address is set up through DirecTV to be a Connecticut address. I have an HR10-250 receiver along with an older RCA model SD receiver. These are both connected to a 3-LNB dish. As of now, I receive all HD channels that DirecTV offers, including CBSHD, ABCHD, FOXHD, and NBCHD. The CT address that I am listed under falls within the New York City RMA. Therefore, I am able to receive all NYC local HD channels under my current setup in Florida. I am currently looking into adding an H20 receiver and a 5-LNB dish. My question is if I do this, will I still be able to receive the same channels that I currently receive as listed above? In other words, will I still be able to receive all HD programming including the NYC Fox, NBC, CBS, and ABC HD affiliates even though I live in FL? Any help/advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Bob Nielsen]

Unless you have waivers from your local stations, Directv cannot legally supply the NYC locals to you. From a practical standpoint however, as long as you don't do anything which would cause Directv to discover that your service address is not in CT, you should be fine. That probably would require you to get the receiver from a retailer and get an independent installer to install the dish and cables (or DIY), at your own expense.

 

[gs5150]

Thanks for the reply, Bob. For some reason I thought I heard that with the 5-LNB dish/MPEG-4 technology that I would no longer be able to receive the NY locals (i.e. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX). Is this true?

 

[raoul5788]

Thanks for the reply, Bob. For some reason I thought I heard that with the 5-LNB dish/MPEG-4 technology that I would no longer be able to receive the NY locals (i.e. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX). Is this true?

You should be able to get them no matter what your setup is. I assume your CT address is in Fairfield county. That means that you get NY channels as your locals, both in sd and hd.

 

[Brewer4]

New York and outlying DMA's are the only exception. Every other DMA is spotbeamed MPEG4. New York is both spotbeamed MPEG4 and MPEG2 CONUS. Meaning, if you are authorized to get New York, then H20, HR20 or HR10-250 will see those. Be very careful though about your "configuration". Order all hardware outside of Directv yourself. And just call and simply activate another receiver.

 

[bases1616]

gs5150, If I am reading your post correctly, how are you getting the local HD's without an OTA? I am assuming you are using an OTA to get the local HD's on your mpeg 2 receiver.

 

[raoul5788]

gs5150, If I am reading your post correctly, how are you getting the local HD's without an OTA? I am assuming you are using an OTA to get the local HD's on your mpeg 2 receiver.

I think he is referring to the CONUS mpeg2 hd channels.