You still need a dish hdtv receiver or another brand receiver that is capable of pulling in the hd signal and processing it for your tv. If you use your old dish receiver for antenna use you'll only be able to get the analog feeds. Motorola and Samsung both make receivers for antenna use, but if you plan to keep dish you may be better off swapping out your old unit for one of their hd ones. That way you can hook up an antenna to it get your local hd stations, and if you decide to order the dish hdtv package at some point you'll already be set.
I am about to get my HDTV. I already have Dish TV.
I assumed that I would need to get one of the Dish TV HDTV recievers - but it looks like that may not be true.
Dish TV's offerings of HDTV programming are pretty limited. I plan on relying on an antenna for my local HDTV programs. I don't plan on ordering any of Dish TV's HDTV packages.
Given all of this - it sounds like I can use my old (standard) Dish TV reciever - and simply connect my off-line antenna to this reciever.
Does this all sound correct - or am I missing something?

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