tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827750361899521745.post8979517976767874765..comments2012-01-17T16:33:16.899-06:00Comments on Craig Materick's Blog: Whole-house video distribution on a budgetCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04947524003844815693noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827750361899521745.post-5331378134874851342010-01-08T16:43:53.685-06:002010-01-08T16:43:53.685-06:00If you are using Dish Network DVRs, you can set tu...If you are using Dish Network DVRs, you can set tuner 2 to output on one of many different channels. Let me give a simple example if you wanted to feed 2 signals to a single TV... 1) Set one DVR to output on channel 40 and the other to output on channel 60. 2) Attach coaxial cable to the outputs of both DVRs. 3) Combine the two coaxial cables using a 1x2 coaxial splitter that you would normally use to got from 1 wire to 2 (just use it backwards). 4) Now you just have one wire carrying both signals. You can hook that wire up to a single TV and watch one DVR on channel 40 and the other on channel 60. It's kind of like old VCRs outputting to either channel 3 or channel 4.<br /><br />The next step is to reliably get the two signals into the one wire and distributed to multiple TVs. This is where the splitter/combiner comes in. I used one that could take in 3 signals, combine and amplify them, and push the resulting combined signal out to eight different TVs. It works the same as the simple situation above, but it allows you to involve more TVs.<br /><br />To be honest, though, I wrote this post quite a while ago. If it were available in my area, I would be switching to AT&T U-Verse. The concept of a whole-house DVR with 4 tuners that can feed both SD and HD to every TV in the house is very appealing.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04947524003844815693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827750361899521745.post-6027889484432786362010-01-08T16:15:58.804-06:002010-01-08T16:15:58.804-06:00I'm trying to do the same thing, but just for ...I'm trying to do the same thing, but just for SD (we haven't upgraded to HD yet). We'd like 2 DVR's to simultaneously record up to 2 programs while watching 2 other live or recorded programs. The trick is distributing the output of *2* DVR's throughout the house. I can do that w/one DVR now. Any chance you'd be willing to discuss this -- after reading your informative post I'm still not quite sure how you pulled it off. ThxBenoit Lheureuxhttp://blogs.gartner.com/benoit_lheureux/noreply@blogger.com