Satellite confusion.

[Lowdown]

I have a newbie question for you satellite TV folks. We have a regular winegaurd round 18" roof mount dish. We would like HD. From what I understand, only Dish Network offers HD service to the 18" dishes and that the hopper will not work. Does this sound correct and if so do I still have a non Tivo DVR option? thanks!

[therink]

I know that with Directv you need a slimline 3 multiswitch or single LNB SWM dish for HD. 18" single won't work. Not sure about Dish Network.

[duramax]

You are correct hoppers wont work in this situation, however the dishnetwork 211k is a single tuner hd receiver, works fine with a triple lnb dish from them as well, I put mine on a tripod for mobility since it seems I always camp with no clear line of site, cover 110 and 129 lnb with tin foil, dial in sat 119, take foil off lnb's and run a check switch, fairly simple process. This receiver will also work with dishnetworks tailgator, which will find the signal for you, I cant justify the cost of it however.