Hello, New to the Forum
We are newbs to sat's and are seriously thinking of switching from cable tv which we currently have split to 4 rooms with the cable underneath the house coming into the rooms via wall face plages. DirectTV is advertising 4 room
installation.
Question:
1. How is the
DTV installation done? 4 cables from the dish to the receivers? or one cable to the main HD Receiver and then out to the other 3 regular receivers?
2. Will the
installers try to use the cable that is underneath the house currently or will the string new cable. The existing cable has been there for years(with cable splitters)and I'm not sure as to it's compatability with a new Sat hook up.
3. Possibly where the dish will be installed will not be where the current cable TV comes in to the house therefore missing all the cable runs to the 4 rooms.
4. I assume with the 4 receivers that any room can watch what they want and not restricted to one master receiver?
I called the 800# for DirectTV and asked some of these questions and they said they would set me up with an installation appointment and I could review this with the "Contract" installers and that I could cancel the installation if need be.
I am capable of stringing new cable underneath the house in to the 4 rooms but need to know from what start point. Or if they will do this I'm more than willing to pay a bonus or extra,( I've been under the house numerous times but I am getting older now) I just need to know.
Thanks for any assistance in advance and apologize for the newb questions.
ps: is there a place on the board that has a glossary for all the abbreviations I've seen in many of the posts?
Bill