http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22591243 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:47:43 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:47:43 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22654292 said by NightWing310:

From my understanding one signal goes to one receiver, which means when I order for four tvs. It will be one dish then four of those things pointing to the dish?
There's a good chance that you would get installed with one of the new SWMLine dishes, in which case there would be one cable going from the dish to a central location, where there would be a splitter with one cable going to each outlet. There can be a maximum of 8 tuners on this system.
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You can call DirecTV and request to outright purchase any receiver. The pricing might be a bit hard to swallow (for example, the last I heard an HD-DVR like the HR20/21 was around $500) - and you might have to play a bit of CSR roulette to find one who actually knows how to do it - but you can purchase them.

They don't want you to - and they make it difficult to do. But it can be done.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596718 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:28:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596640 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596640 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:16:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596471 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596471 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:51:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596386 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22596386 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:38:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22592873
Now I think a HD DVR is free.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22592873 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:07:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-DIRECTV-Question-about-how-DIRECT-TV-WORKS-22591389 »electronics.howstuffworks.com/sa···-tv6.htm
and the one after it (use the next page link).

The LNBs on the dish receive the signal from a particular satellite - not for a particular receiver but for all connected receivers.

You don't "buy" the receivers from Best Buy - it's a lease initiation fee just like you'd pay if you got them directly from DirecTV. Your "friend" is incorrect.
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