Wire to a Dish

Single Wire Multiswitch setups use only one RG6 coax cable. 

That will cover for 4k and future 8k channels?

Yes. That cable feeds your DirecTV Receiver/DVRs. You'll need an HS17 or HR54 Genie DVR with compatible 4K Genie Clients for 4K channels. There are no plans for 8K. 

I dont want a Genie system. Just a handful of HR24's. does this change the amount of wire needed from dish?

I don't know if you can still get HR24s. The Slimline dish only uses one RG6 coax cable to feed a compatible SWM splitter that will connect to your DirecTV boxes. The HR24 does not support 4K. 

Thanks

@AVGuy32 

DirecTV has moved to Genie-only setups. To get a non-Genie system would require going through a 3rd party Authorized Retailer and paying the one-time lease costs for all equipment you want.

You cannot get 4K without a Genie. It requires either the 3rd generation Genie (HR54) or Genie-2 (HS17) as part of the setup. There is not a lot of 4K content so not a big loss.

Nothing has been said about DirecTV having 8K. It would be a long way off if ever.

Regular non-Genie HDDVRs are in a sense legacy equipment as haven't been made in years. Even the last model (HR24) stays on the older software.

I hope the new co-owner returns to a dedicated receiver setup.

As a note, you can have the regular Genie mixed in with other HDDVRs. The end result is one TV has a more capable HDDVR (5 tuners and 1TB space) vs a regular HDDVR (2 tuners and 500GB space). Each box is still dedicated so doesn't have the issues of Clients.