I saw the posts by Sherry (PaNjDeFemale) and it started me wondering:

I have had Dish for over 3 years now. I have 4 receivers, locals channels,
and one of my receivers is the Tivo-like 501 (Can't live without it!!!). I
also get the complete HBO package. I pay about $93 a month.
The wife bought me a big 50-some-inch widescreen HDTV last year (I think
I'll keep her!) but I have yet to watch anything in HD. Now I know Dish has
2 different HD receiver (an 800 series and a 900 series. The 900 has the
Tivo capabilities). The recievers aren't cheap, but I was thinking of
"splurging" after the first of the year. Now that I have rambled on about
that, here is my question:

If I get one of the HD receivers, do you HAVE to subscribe to their HD
package (at $9.99 a month) which someone told me involved another dish AND
is only something like 6 channels? Would I be able to get any HD shows
WITHOUT subscibing to that package? Now let me state first: I live too far
away from a major city so over-the-air reception is NOT an option. Somtimes
I wish I lived closer just so I COULD get over-the-air HD signals, but I
don't want to give up living here in God's country....;-]

Oh! BTW, it drives me crazy when they say your signal goes out in bad
weather. Bunk! The only time I have lost a signals was when we had a
torrential downpour last summer and I think the signal was lost for about 15
seconds. When I had cable, we'd lose it for hours (and sometimes days) at a
time when one of the lines went down.....

Duhhh..NO you won't get any HD channels without subscribing...just like you
won't get HBO without subscribing!!
Good news is the first 6 months are free.


"Red Neckerson" wrote in message
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I saw the posts by Sherry (PaNjDeFemale) and it started me wondering:

I have had Dish for over 3 years now. I have 4 receivers, locals channels,
and one of my receivers is the Tivo-like 501 (Can't live without it!!!). I
also get the complete HBO package. I pay about $93 a month.
The wife bought me a big 50-some-inch widescreen HDTV last year (I think
I'll keep her!) but I have yet to watch anything in HD. Now I know Dish
has 2 different HD receiver (an 800 series and a 900 series. The 900 has
the Tivo capabilities). The recievers aren't cheap, but I was thinking of
"splurging" after the first of the year. Now that I have rambled on about
that, here is my question:

If I get one of the HD receivers, do you HAVE to subscribe to their HD
package (at $9.99 a month) which someone told me involved another dish
AND is only something like 6 channels? Would I be able to get any HD shows
WITHOUT subscibing to that package? Now let me state first: I live too far
away from a major city so over-the-air reception is NOT an option.
Somtimes I wish I lived closer just so I COULD get over-the-air HD
signals, but I don't want to give up living here in God's country....;-]

Oh! BTW, it drives me crazy when they say your signal goes out in bad
weather. Bunk! The only time I have lost a signals was when we had a
torrential downpour last summer and I think the signal was lost for about
15 seconds. When I had cable, we'd lose it for hours (and sometimes days)
at a time when one of the lines went down.....

"curmudgeon" wrote

Duhhh..NO you won't get any HD channels without subscribing...just like
you won't get HBO without subscribing!!
Good news is the first 6 months are free.

I figured that. The only reason I asked was:

Every now and then I think I have seen (at the beginning of a movie/show) a
little blurb that says (something like): Broadcsted in HD (where available).

Now we just have to wait for the new HD DVD players to come out AND go down
in price.....