My big-dish C-band satellite unit has been on the blink. The little motor that rotates the antenna between vertical and horizontal polarity has failed, and I can now only tune in half of the available channels.

I am considering switching back to little-dish as long as I can still get my HDTV from it.

Browsing the DirecTV site, they don't seem to offer a package which includes both HDTV and a DVR.

Note that I know there isn't an integrated HTDV DVR on the market yet.

I don't care about recording HDTV, I'd be happy if I could just use the DVR for SD, but it appears as though I'd need to buy two separate boxes for this and there's no clear information on how or how well such a two-box system would be integrated. Has anyone else done this? (Have a DirecTV DVR as well as DirecTV HD?) What are the integration issues if any?