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Cable DVR versus Directv or Dish DVR
A DVR is just a digital video recorder Dennis, there's nothing satellite-exclusive about them. As long as you feed them a compatible signal, they'll record it. What makes the satellite DVR/DirecTiVo different is that the satellite receivers are integrated with the recording capability.
Cable companies offer DVRs too, and they can surely watch/record simultaneously. They're basically a cable box that's integrated with a recording capability. Don't believe analog cable has the capability to feed two channels simultaneously though, but it appears digital cable does. Click the link below.
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I have the medium sized multi-sat dish (triple LNB) and an older dual receiver DirecTiVo (the 40 gig Samsung). Supposedly it's got on-demand capability, I've just never had cause to investigate it. The dish itself is pretty unobtrusive. But perhaps that's because it's overshadowed by the markedly larger internet dish on the same pole.
I've read about the 5 LNB multi-sat HD dishes, never seen one personally. But in photos they didn't look much larger than what I have now. I'm in the boonies, and it's unlikely the area cable company will offer HD anytime in the forseeable future (they're still selling analog!!). So HD plans were simply to upgrade what I have. I'll likely stay with DirecTV, go from the 3 LNB to the 5 LNB dish, and from the DirecTiVo to the HD DVR. Someday.
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I see, matter of perspective I guess. Mine's 21x19, and I was thinking of the 29x25 version of the five LNB dish. Stacked fore and aft, that one would only exceed the size of mine by 4 inches side to side and 3 inches top and bottom. I guess your concern is that the Slimline is 3 inches wider yet.
The reason I used the word "perspective", is that my 39x29 satellite internet dish would still outshadow both, and I'm fixin' to replace it with an even bigger one. I have both the internet dish and DirecTV dish mounted on a 2-3/8" (OD) steel pipe, planted in concrete. Makes for much easier removal of wet snow/ice.
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