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D*TV DVR hookup

Started by chure, Thursday Sep 30, 2004, 07:37:54 AM

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chure

I'm getting D*TV DVR installed tomorrow.  My question is on where I should have it installed.  Right now I have a HDTV/home theater with HD receiver in the basement and regular receiver and tv up stairs.  I'd like to be able to watch recorded tv from DVR both up stairs and down stairs from the same DVR...

Here's what I was thinking...have two more D*TV lines run downstairs for the dual tuner for the DVR and split the video cable out of the DVR to the ANT-A on the HDTV and then run the other (split) video cable to the tv up stairs.  I would run audio cables to AUX in the audio reciever (downstairs).  Right now I have a set of those remote control pyramids that can send the signal to another room, so I could watch tv upstairs and control the DVR that is located downstairs.  Downstairs I would mostly watch the tv from the HD receiver, unless there was something that I wanted to watch a recorded show (although it wouldn't be HD, I understand) I could switch to ANT-A and get the feed from the DVR.  

The main reason I think I would want (need) the DVR downstairs is because I need to run the audio through the audio receiver.  Upstairs is just a stand alone tv, so no audio cables would be necessary.

Does this sound like it would work?  I'm not going to be home when the guy comes to install tomorrow, but I'll explain to my wife that I want two cables run downstairs and probably another one in addition run upstairs, just incase my master plan doesn't work.  That would be a total of 5 lines, 2 upstairs and 3 down stairs, can that be done?

the last alternative would be to pay the $70 for a second DVR (no additional monthly fee, right) and have a DVR upstairs and a DVR and HD receiver downstairs.

Any opinions are apprecitated...

borghe

The SD Tivos are VERY easy to split, simply because they essentially have two audio outputs (digital and analog) and technically three video outputs (composite, s, and rf).

What you're saying sounds fine.