How many HD receivers can run on 1 dishnetwork dish?

Currenty we have 1 SD dish with a dual tuner box and 32" and one SD tv

the HD dish has one HDTV and and one SDTV via the dual tuner box

can i hoop up another HD box to the HD dish?
or will i need another HD dish?

I don't see why you wouldnt' be able to use the same dish and just add another receiver....

think about it, there are people that have nothing but HDTV's at home (like, 10 of em) and ya don't see them having 10 satellite dishes outside their house :)

It depends on whether you are using a Dishpro LNBF or a Legacy LNBF. It also depends on the receivers and the wiring configuration. If you have a 612/622/722 you can use one wire and a seperator for both inputs or two wires for each receiver. If you have a need for more than four wires out of the LNBF, you can us a Dish switch between the LNBF and the receivers. It is probably a good idea to call Dish and they can look up your equipment and tell you what is needed.

Keep in mind there is an absolute limit of 6 receivers / 12 tuners per account. And only 4 of the tuners can be leased.

Nothing stopping you from having multiple accounts at one location.

And with DishPro technology - 12 tuners off of a set of dishes is entirely possible.

But I agree with above - call Dish with what you want to do.

I run 30 receivers off one set of antennas at Johns Hopkins University. I simply have each DISHPro downlead feed into an 8-way splitter, and use those to source the DP34s and DPP 44s.