Vcr Recording

[mug]

:confused: I have dish 500 and 2 dish 322 receivers. can anyone tell me how to record a channel on my vcr while watching another on my tv?

[Cyclone]

How many rooms do these 322's serve?

[mug]

How many rooms do these 322's serve?
I have 2 tv's hooked up on each receiver

[Slordak]

There are undoubtedly a huge number of viable configurations to do this with. You have a total 4 satellite tuners, effectively, by using a Dish 500 (with DishPro Quad LNB, it would appear) and 2 322s, each with 2 tuners.

Since you apparently already have all of the outputs hooked up to televisions, one of those televisions is going to need to either have its input signal first passed through a VCR so that what it is watching can be taped. Presumably you would be in a different room watching a different channel on another television.

1) First decide which TV / VCR you are going to be using to do the recording. Figure out how it is supplied a signal by your existing 322, i.e. is it supplied by composite cables (red/white/yellow), is it supplied by a television channel 3 output (TV 1 coax), or is it supplied by the "agile modulated output" (TV 2 coax)?

2) Run whatever the feed source is into your VCR. If using the red/white/yellow composite cables, these go into the "Input", "Line" or "Aux" jacks on the VCR. If using the coax cable, this goes into the "Cable/TV Antenna Input" coax input.

3) Manually set the satellite tuner to the correct channel, e.g. set the channel using the remote to, say, 110 to record Food Network.

4) Setup the VCR to record from the appropriate input. If using the composite input, pick source "AUX", "LINE" or "L". If using the coax input, pick the correct channel number. For the TV1 coax, this can be either 3 or 4, depending on setting. For the TV2 coax (the "agile modulated" one), this can be 21-69 depending on setting.

5) Optionally, run the VCR outputs into the television. This can be done via composite or coax. Then pick the appropriate video input (or use the tuner and pick channel 3 for the coax feed).

That should do it; please ask if you have a more concrete question or issue.

[mug]

There are undoubtedly a huge number of viable configurations to do this with. You have a total 4 satellite tuners, effectively, by using a Dish 500 (with DishPro Quad LNB, it would appear) and 2 322s, each with 2 tuners.

Since you apparently already have all of the outputs hooked up to televisions, one of those televisions is going to need to either have its input signal first passed through a VCR so that what it is watching can be taped. Presumably you would be in a different room watching a different channel on another television.

1) First decide which TV / VCR you are going to be using to do the recording. Figure out how it is supplied a signal by your existing 322, i.e. is it supplied by composite cables (red/white/yellow), is it supplied by a television channel 3 output (TV 1 coax), or is it supplied by the "agile modulated output" (TV 2 coax)?

2) Run whatever the feed source is into your VCR. If using the red/white/yellow composite cables, these go into the "Input", "Line" or "Aux" jacks on the VCR. If using the coax cable, this goes into the "Cable/TV Antenna Input" coax input.

3) Manually set the satellite tuner to the correct channel, e.g. set the channel using the remote to, say, 110 to record Food Network.

4) Setup the VCR to record from the appropriate input. If using the composite input, pick source "AUX", "LINE" or "L". If using the coax input, pick the correct channel number. For the TV1 coax, this can be either 3 or 4, depending on setting. For the TV2 coax (the "agile modulated" one), this can be 21-69 depending on setting.

5) Optionally, run the VCR outputs into the television. This can be done via composite or coax. Then pick the appropriate video input (or use the tuner and pick channel 3 for the coax feed).

That should do it; please ask if you have a more concrete question or issue.
I'm trying to do this on the tv that is also where the vcr is

[TheRatPatrol]

:confused: I have dish 500 and 2 dish 322 receivers. can anyone tell me how to record a channel on my vcr while watching another on my tv?


VCR, whats a VCR? :D Sounds to me like its time to get yourself a DVR.

[Slordak]

I'm trying to do this on the tv that is also where the vcr is

Wait a second... You have 4 satellite LNB feeds, feeding 2 322s, which then provide 4 separate video signal outputs to 4 televisions, and you're saying this isn't sufficient?

You cannot "watch one thing from satellite while you tape another (from a different satellite channel) with a VCR" with a single tuner. Each satellite tuner only tunes a single channel at a time. In your case, you have the capability to tune 4 separate channels using your 2 322s. You need to think about how you realistically want to use these; maybe go down to 3 televisions, with one of the 3 TVs having access to two separate tuners (i.e. a dedicated 322)? Or maybe, using one of the other TVs that currently aren't in use, use a VCR attached to them to record something (as I suggested in my original post above)?