1) yes; 2) not necessary

notes for 2):

First you need to have a receiver to receive dish signal, do you have it?  If yes, you are able to use it, because the signal from TV42 or TV44 is merged to your dish cable which leads to your receiver.  From receiver perspective nothing is changed.

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• Even if you terminated dish service, you can still receive OA si -internuts- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/16/2011 postreply 19:15:31

• 如果沒服務，DVR就不work了，可能得把cable直接接到電視上吧 -sandanke- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/16/2011 postreply 19:56:00

• you will need a receiver if you dvr cant work -internuts- ♂ (499 bytes) () 10/16/2011 postreply 21:40:30

• THAT'S AN INTERESTING THING! - -sandanke- ♂ (165 bytes) () 10/18/2011 postreply 20:41:11

• Thank you! That sounds really nice!我有dish，合同沒到期，但看來可以把local給canc -sandanke- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/16/2011 postreply 19:54:31