Splitting Direct TV signal

[budb4u]

I am new to Direct Tv. I have a HD-DVR HR 22-100 in the living room. Great to
record on it.....not happy you cannot record two shows at the same time and
watch another but..... Well I was a cable subscriber (RCN) and got fed up with
the service there but at least I could split the cable signal into my Panasonic
DMR-EH75V DVD Recorder. Now instead of that DVD Recorder going to waste
I would somehow like to split the Direct TV signal in it and be able to lets say
record channel 3....while watching channel 6 on TV, and still be recording channel 3.

Is this at all possible?????

[veryoldschool]

I am new to Direct Tv. I have a HD-DVR HR 22-100 in the living room. Great to
record on it.....not happy you cannot record two shows at the same time and
watch another but..... Well I was a cable subscriber (RCN) and got fed up with
the service there but at least I could split the cable signal into my Panasonic
DMR-EH75V DVD Recorder. Now instead of that DVD Recorder going to waste
I would somehow like to split the Direct TV signal in it and be able to lets say
record channel 3....while watching channel 6 on TV, and still be recording channel 3.

Is this at all possible?????
With the standard HD dish, you need to run a second cable from the dish to the DVR, so you can have both tuners active.
DirecTV feeds are switched, so you can't split them like cable [which isn't switched].
The other option is to convert to the SWiM [single wire multi-switch] system, which you can split, but to feed both tuners in the DVR, you don't need to split since the DVR does this internally.

[boba]

I am new to Direct Tv. I have a HD-DVR HR 22-100 in the living room. Great to
record on it.....not happy you cannot record two shows at the same time and
watch another but..... Well I was a cable subscriber (RCN) and got fed up with
the service there but at least I could split the cable signal into my Panasonic
DMR-EH75V DVD Recorder. Now instead of that DVD Recorder going to waste
I would somehow like to split the Direct TV signal in it and be able to lets say
record channel 3....while watching channel 6 on TV, and still be recording channel 3.

Is this at all possible?????If you want to record 2 and watch a third you have 2 options. 1 Go back to cable 2 get a second receiver and pay $5 more per month.

[carl6]

The signal coming from the dish must go to a DirecTV receiver or DVR, there is no way to insert it directly into a TV, VCR, DVD recorder, etc.

Your DirecTV DVR does allow you to record two channels at once (and you can watch one of those two channels, or something else previously recorded). You can also record one channel while watching a different channel (with or without recording it). But you cannot record two channels while watching a third channel live.

If you want to tune to a separate channel to record on any external device, such as your DVD recorder, then you need an additional receiver, as noted above, at a $5 per month cost.