Does all satellite TV have your share a box?

Question

I have Dish, and I have to share a box with the other members of my family, does all satellite TV do this?

Answer 1

Dish does use dual tuner receivers to save the customers money.  This might be what you're talking about.  

Say you have 4 rooms, you could do two dual tuners and pay $5 more for the second box.  If you do four individual tuners it would cost you $15.  

The installer could have also split one of the outputs to feed two tvs instead of one.  This was probably done to save you money also.

Answer 2

No, you can just request another box for any additional rooms that you want. Call Dish Network and let them know, if you've been a customer of theirs for a while, they will probably give you standard boxes for free. If not, switch to directv, they'll give you up to a 5 room setup for free.