Moving from DirecTv to Dish

[Pinn]

We have a portable satellite dish (King cube) that we can take out and place in the grass. While on vacation I called DirecTv and tried to have our service activated and after several attempts it was determined that our SD receiver was shot and needed to be replaced with an HD receiver. After returning home and jumping thru several hoops to get a tech to the house with an HD receiver, it was found that our dish cannot interpret DirecTv HD channels, only Dish TV. So we have had to order a receiver from Dish TV. Should arrive sometime this week.. Are we the only ones that have had this problem?

[rjshiflet]

I had looked into the smaller dishes (and even had one for a while) but got tired of watching SD on a 58" TV so I ultimately changed to a full-size dish on a tripod. It takes less than 10 minutes to set it up and we get crystal clear HDTV with DirecTV.

I was told (at that time) with Dish in an RV you basically have to watch LIVE rather than being able to record and that wasn't an option for me. That may have changed and recording may be possible in an RV now.