I am glad you are getting back into this hobby but I fear you made a mistake. I have owned a 922 with an HDD200 HD decoder and an mpeg2 receiver. I've had the 922 since they first came out. Prior to owning it, I owned a 920, a HTS X+ and an HTS 8. I sold the mpeg 2 receiver 1 month after I bought it. They are a pain in the a__ and there is very little to watch that we might enjoy. The 922 has high quality HD and cable type programming on 24 hours a day. If you like movies, every movie channel in the sky almost is available.. Buy a 922 and HDD200. You will not regret it. Alsso, with only a 9' dish the splitters and Diseq switches will cause a considerable decrease in signal strength. My 12 ft paraclipse suffered a 10 point drop in signal strength values and 5 points in quality when I inserted all the splitters needed for C and Ku reception with an mpeg. BTW, you need Ku for mpeg. There are a lot of feeds on Ku.
Good luck but buy a 922.
