2024 Europa 32KD- Dish TV & DVD

[MVD]

We are taking delivery of our new 2024 Dynamax Europa 32KD next week and will be on the road for a few weeks getting acquainted with the coach. Wife enjoys her TV time and also watching old movies on DVD. My understanding is that the coach comes with the roof mounted satellite so we just need the Dish Wally receiver. Couple of questions-
1- Can a single Dish receiver be used for both TVs?
We are not looking to watch separate channels or even use both at the same time.
2- Is there a DVD player or can one be added easily?
We have plenty of old DVDs that we still enjoy watching.
I know most people are streaming these days and we may make the jump to Starlink at some point, but Dish Network has worked well for us the past few years combined with the DVD player.

[bclemens]

1. yes, through the HDMI matrix. (video on Youtube)
2. same, place it in the cabinet with the HDMI matrix. Same video

[MVD]

Thanks Brian for your prompt response! I have been watching this forum and the Dynamax Facebook page and owners group, since we ordered the new coach in September, and appreciate all your responses to the many and varied questions!
We have enjoyed our LTV Unity MB for the past 8 years due to the quality build and the amazing group of owners willing to share knowledge and experience. We chose Dynamax for the same reasons. Looking forward to taking delivery next week and starting our next journey in the new coach. My wife will be happy getting the coach organized and being able to have TV options, while I am getting acquainted with all the systems on the new Coach! Win Win!

[malmz]

The matrix has 4 inputs and 4 TV outputs (3 used on the 32KD) so you can plug everything in up there in the cabinet. Plus your digital antenna input that goes directly to the TVs via ethernet cable and converters at each TV. I did an upgrade post on adding a 4th TV to the bunk.

We use three of the 4 matrix inputs, Roku (so we have our central YouTube TV and Peacock device instead of individual TVs using data), DVD, and our old Dish Wally as a backup (my goal is to get away from Dish). Buy some short HDMI cables for everything or the space gets consumed quickly with cables. You will also need to add a power strip in there as there are only 2 plugs and 1 is consumed by the matrix. Also there are no USB plugs up there in the AV cabinet (never counted the rest in the RV, 40-50?) so on devices that need this for power you will need power strip USB adapters too.

If adding a 4th TV, use a different brand, the bluetooth remotes for power on/off of the other TVs turn them all on and off if they are close. Other functions work fine independently, but the power button does them all. Side note, I also added a power strip to the outside TV to be able to turn it off 100% because the main TV bluetooth remote will turn that one on sometimes too from inside the rig and you will wonder where the voices are coming from.

Once you go streaming, to conserve data, I also went into each TV setting and disabled the Smart TV wifi as all of the smart TV screens and also often TV system updates will consume your data quickly. We only stream through the Roku device and Wingard 360 5G with a data SIM.

[gremlin]

That's a great idea, is the ROKU faster than the built in OS on the TVs? We were attempting to use it this past weekend and man is it clunky

[malmz]

Originally Posted by gremlin

That's a great idea, is the ROKU faster than the built in OS on the TVs? We were attempting to use it this past weekend and man is it clunky

We are used to the Roku format and now YouTube app on it at home (we swapped from Spectrum TV to YourTubeTV last year), so we find it less confusing than the smart TVs home screen which show you all formats at once. The learning curve is turning on the TV and going to "input" and "hdmi" each time to get to the hdmi source, they want to default to the SmartTV channels. The Roku works well with the Wingard 360/5G antenna and definitely gives us a better signal than our phone hotspots.

[malmz]

Originally Posted by malmz

Plus your digital antenna input that goes directly to the TVs via ethernet cable and converters at each TV.

I need to correct myself here. The digital antenna is via coax, the ethernet cable/converter is for the HDMI source to each TV which goes to the matrix.