Satellite to Streaming?

These are completely different services, you can't "switch" from one to the other. If you cancel your satellite service, you will lose everyting on that service (channels, recordings etc)

IMHO Directv should not have branded the streaming service "Directv". It is causing masses of confusion.

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You can have both services all you have to do is subscribe to DTV Streaming by going to their website and if you get the DVR then you will have to plug the HDMI cable into a separate HDMI port on the TV.

DirecTV and DIRECTV STREAM are two completely separate TV providers. Their service and equipment have nothing to do with each other. They simply share an owner.

Think of it as going from DirecTV to Netflix, or having both. Choose the one that works best for you. But be caught up first if you do switch as recordings do not transfer between providers.

As far as recordings go, I would recommend disconnecting the receiver from the satellite before ending service so that it misses the deactivation signal and you can continue watching the recordings until the receiver locks itself up. 

The receiver gets a periodic activation signal from the sats and DTV removes it from the list when you cancel your account then the receiver will no longer work when it misses the next one.

Not to mention when you cancel you have limited time to return the dvr before you get charged a non return fee. 

There are no 1080p broadcast channels they use 1080i or 720.  There is no app for DTV sat service for Roku only the DTV streaming service.

@shannon02 If that last post was in response to @teetertotter read his post again. I’m pretty sure he knows there is no app for sat service for Roku and that sat service has no 1080p channels. He was talking about trying out the streaming service.

also fyi. people who have carefully inspected Directv streaming have said the "1080p channels" are mostly (maybe all) not actually 1080p. Those channels that are not 720p use their "streaming optimisation" algorithm but are declared as 1080p even though they might not be. 

Also 1080i has the same resolution as 1080p but a lower frame rate. In theory you should get better fast movement with 1080p but most people don't see it. Not that it matters, because in practice it's difficult for most people to see any difference between these resolutions anyway

true. anyways, if the OP is fine with ending DIRECTV sat for the purpose of watching on a Roku, then I guess its ok. By 2030 I don't see the satellite business surviving, so glad some customers are switching right now to get used to streaming. 

AFAIK 1080P or I only applies to CRTs as I is interlaced meaning the electron gun paints the odd lines then the even lines where P is progressive where it paints the lines in order 1,2,3.   

AFAIK 1080P or I only applies to CRTs as I is interlaced meaning the electron gun paints the odd lines then the even lines where P is progressive where it paints the lines in order 1,2,3. 

Yes, 480i was originally designed with CRTs, but interleaved has more to do with preserving bandwidth than the screen technology. 

1080i typically takes half of the bandwidth as 1080p because 1080i will paint a field (with half the data due to the every-other-row nature) at the same rate that 1080p paints an entire frame.  1080i takes about the same bandwidth at 720p.