question dish-500 dish.

[amomenit]

hello All:

First I want to say thanks or answering my perivious post. Now my question is that I was told by a friend who ehared from a installer that with the new HD recivers, the old dishes are also being replaced with new dishes? Is that true? Mine is a dish-500 with two LNBs in the "Y" form to get both 110 and 119. So will my dish be changed? Or is my current dish-500 legacy good? I am not much of fan on HD programming and love my current SD channels. Thanks in advance for your answer

 

[bhelms]

It depends on what you want to receive. If you're sticking with SD only, then no, you won't need new equipment. The national HD channel content is on sats. at locations 61.5 and 129 (same at both). Depending on your location a single Dish 1000 with 3 LNBs might pick up 110, 119, and 129. In some locations (the NE and Florida peninsula) the 129 sat is not visible at all so you need a second dish looking at 61.5. And in many areas the signal on 129 is too weak/variable (NW, Atlanta, etc.) such that some prefer the 2-dish solution anyway. YMMV...