WOW, all this info is making my head spin. I realize that I referred to HD when in fact the problem in a year or so will be with digital. Let me explain what I have now and some of you guys that know a heck of a lot more about this than I do, can give me an idea of what I will have to do.
I am a Canadian but I have a US satellite dish from Dish Network because the programming on the Canadian dish isn't nearly as good. I have a US address and a US Post Office Box and I pay for my signal so I'm not stealing anything. My little dish is about 10 years old but my receiver was replaced 2 years ago as the old one bought the farm. I only have the satellite dish hooked up to one TV.
I have an antenna which I use to receive both Canadian (CBC, CTV, etc) and American (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc) network channels. The antenna lead-in coax goes to a little splitter, amplifier box that is plugged into a 110 outlet. I then run coax cable to several TVs.
My main TV set (the one that is connected to my satellite dish) is a relatively new, relatively big, stereo, Sharp (with a hundred input/output plugs
) but it not HD, not digital, not wide screen. I paid $2000 for it about 6 or 7 years ago, it works great and I hope to be able to continue to use it for some time. The other TVs are smaller and much older and I guess that I will have to begin replacing them at some point in time.
So what will I need from Dish Network? Will the dish also have to be routed through a converter? Will I only need one converter for my antenna signal or will I require one converter for each TV set?
Wayne