# Pulling the plug on DishTV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-plug-on-dishtv/730247>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-plug-on-dishtv/730247 "2015-09-07T16:28:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![psimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@psimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psimmons)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-plug-on-dishtv/730247/1 "2015-09-07T16:28:07Z")

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Question: Can the cable that’s plugged into the satellite dish outside be disconnected from the dish and attached to a HDTV antenna and use that cable that already goes into the house without converter boxes to view OTA TV’?

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**Author:** ![joe.russell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@joe.russell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joe.russell)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-plug-on-dishtv/730247/2 "2015-09-07T16:45:15Z")

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If I understand everything correctly. Then yes. I did the same thing with our directv with no problems. Im sure youll have to have a tv with a tuner built in. Which has been standard for a while now

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulling-the-plug-on-dishtv/730247/3 "2015-09-07T22:42:16Z")

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Been awhile since I had satellite, and then it was DirecTV never Dish, but that should just be a coaxial cable perfectly suited for either. Just make sure there aren’t any little ‘boxes’ left over anywhere in the run of the cable.