Switch to DirecTV streaming, but I still need to keep a regular reciever for tailgating?

You have to have DTV sat service to use DTV receivers.  You maybe able to stream to the tailgate TV if there is WiFi broadband at the site.  When DTV finishes the MPEG2 channels shutdown that King dish will be obsolete.

Some TVs will have the DTV app installed or available in their app store or you buy a streaming device to connect to the TV, then there is the DTV streaming device the Gemini.

DirecTV Satellite and DirecTV Stream are two different services. If you do create a DirecTV Stream account be sure to use a different email address to keep the accounts from getting confused with each other. 

Thank you for responding.  I am NOT planning to stream to the tailgating set-up.  I will want to continue to use the KING antenna.  From your response, you seem to infer that the satellite feed will end at some point?  When is is expected?  Why?

I suppose that I will have to keep one account for the tailgate and one for the streaming?

Ed

DirecTV has been gradually dropping SD-only channels from the 101º satellite for a couple of years now. Eventually that KING dish won't get any channels. If you want to keep satellite, you'll need to replace that dish with DirecTV Slimline or Winegard Trav'ler dish. What DVR/Receiver model number do you have? That box might need to be replaced, too.

And, yes, separate accounts for satellite and streaming. They're not shared. 

Genie is not an account type, but equipment. So one of your boxes is the Genie.

DirecTV is shutting down their MPEG-2/SD-only feeds. That means the King dish is obsolete. Going forward you would need a slimline SWM dish on a tripod/sled mount or the Winegard Trav'ler.

DirecTV stopped offering SD-only service in late 2015 and a few years later started the shutdown of those old feeds. It was intended to have completed by now, but like everything else it got slowed down by the pandemic. Remember though, SD-only TVs have not been made in over a decade. The writing has been on the wall that it is an HD world now.

The tailgating receiver would be on the account. There is no tagging to switch it between accounts. As long as it is an H or HR model (or R22), than it is fine. But if it is a D or R model (other than the special R22) than it must be replaced.

That is for the satellite service. If you go to streaming only, than you cannot use that tailgating receiver because it is for satellite only.

A note, DirecTV no longer has the NFL Sunday Ticket for the satellite service and it is not available on DIRECTV STREAM. Those rights are now under YouTube's TV service.

Thanks for this - I now have a fuller understanding of the issues that I will have to deal with.  Tailgating TV may not be possible.

Ed

Thanks for this - I now have a fuller understanding of the issues that I will have to deal with.  Tailgating TV may not be possible.

Ed

Can you use your phone or tablet as a WiFi hotspot with your celluar internet?  If yes, then you can still stream video. 

The ATT phone signals around the tailgating areas are not that great.  When you have 80,000 or so people in one small area.

We had a group tailgating next to us last season, and they were not able to keep a signal once the crowd got there in force.  But thanks for the suggestion.

Ed

One thing to try, even when not tailgating. If there is a lot of people, most likely they are all on the highest level network available. If you get 4G LTE and change network settings down to say 4G you may see improvement.

Easy way to think on it is like the freeway. It has the highest speed limit, but at rush hour it is stop and go or going well below. Take a backroad that may have a lower limit, but with not many people on it, you keep at that speed.

Something to keep in mind when traveling.