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Cable descramblers
Brookenstein:
We have a ton of shows DVRd but we never watch them because they are on the tv in the garage or the office and our main TV is HD and doesn't have the DVR. My husband bought 500 feet of coax yesterday so that we can circle the house 5 times and then jump rope... (actually it was cheaper in that quantity) but his plan is to hook up the regular dish to the HDTV as well so we can watch the DVRs and then also run some outside so that we can take the 9" tv from the garage out to the hot tub when we want. We are giong to have wire everywhere.
drewstar:
--- Quote ---We have a ton of shows DVRd but we never watch them because they are on the tv in the garage or the office and our main TV is HD and doesn't have the DVR. My husband bought 500 feet of coax yesterday so that we can circle the house 5 times and then jump rope... (actually it was cheaper in that quantity) but his plan is to hook up the regular dish to the HDTV as well so we can watch the DVRs and then also run some outside so that we can take the 9" tv from the garage out to the hot tub when we want. We are giong to have wire everywhere.
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Huh? I don't have HD....and maybe i am missing something , but why not make the "Main" TV one of the two on DVR set up so you canwatch what you record? The fact that it's HD shouldnt make a difference. I was under the impresion the DVR set up from Dish was an HD compatable/ready system.
Brookenstein:
We have to have a special HD receiver to get the HD channels for our HDTV. At the time we got our DISH package, they were not offering HDTV DVRs, but the DVR came standard with our other receiver. We've got a tv in the office but we only have it on when we are on the computer, not when we want to sit and watch a show. So now that we have 46 hours of recorded TV, we don't want to sit and watch it in the office or the garage. J thinks he can split it from the tv in the office to the main tv, so that we can watch the DVRd stuff. I think we could also be able to use our PIP that way, as we can't use it now because there is only one signal.
Did that make sense or did I confuse you more?
LtDan:
--- Quote ---I don't know a lot about those, but can you add a splitter AFTER the cable box and run one wire to each tv?
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I could, but with a second cable box my kids could watch their shows while I get my hockey fix. You can get the analog boxes that are supposed to pull channels 1-125 for under one hundred bucks, but I need the digital channels in the 700 range. The digital boxes are 200-300 bucks.
Brewman:
For $300 I'd pay the cable company rent. I think they charge us about $5/mo for a digital box.
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