522 questions

[slammer]

I am looking into Dish and the 522. Here are my questions.

- So one receiver controls 2 sets? So I assume the room that has the second set only has a remote in that room?

- The 522 looks like it is about 3"tall. In my cabinet I would not be able to stack the 522 and my DVD player (and my wife does not want it sitting on top of the cabinet). Can I put the 522 in the secondary room (set 2 where I have room for it) but control DVR functions from my main room (where set 1 is). Hope this makes sense.

Thanks!

[bcas400e]

HI,

yes! just a remote in the secondary room, and yes you could set it up so the receiver is in the secondary room, the remote in the primary room. The DVR functions are available from either remote.

[genglish]

You can put the 522 in your "secondary room", but if you care more about picture quality in your "primary room", you will probably want it there. The "secondary room" TV typically connects via normal TV signal over a pre-defined channel over your cable, with lesser picture quality.

Now, you could be very lucky, and your primary and secondary room TVs are back-to-back, separated by a wall, in which case you can connect the secondary TV to the 522 via s-video/RCA cables through the wall, but most people don't have this situation.

For my preferences, I wanted to connect my main TV with the highest quality connection possible, so I put the 522 next to my main TV and connected it via s-video/RCA audio cables. My secondary TV is fed through the RF output via my existing home TV cabling, over channel 60.

You can go to the Dish website (www.dishnetwork.com) and look at the manual for more connection details and options (User Guides and Manuals selection under the Products menu).

Summary: TV1 has S-video, composite video, RCA audio, and RF channel 3/4 output options, while TV2 has only RCA video/audio and RF output via user-selectable channel.

[boba]

You can put the 522 in your "secondary room", but if you care more about picture quality in your "primary room", you will probably want it there. The "secondary room" TV typically connects via normal TV signal over a pre-defined channel over your cable, with lesser picture quality.

Now, you could be very lucky, and your primary and secondary room TVs are back-to-back, separated by a wall, in which case you can connect the secondary TV to the 522 via s-video/RCA cables through the wall, but most people don't have this situation.

For my preferences, I wanted to connect my main TV with the highest quality connection possible, so I put the 522 next to my main TV and connected it via s-video/RCA audio cables. My secondary TV is fed through the RF output via my existing home TV cabling, over channel 60.

You can go to the Dish website (www.dishnetwork.com) and look at the manual for more connection details and options (User Guides and Manuals selection under the Products menu).

Summary: TV1 has S-video, composite video, RCA audio, and RF channel 3/4 output options, while TV2 has only RCA video/audio and RF output via user-selectable channel.You will also lose Dolby Digital capabilities, and any surround sound if you are using the coax. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Kiwonk]

I think there is a problem with using the secondary TV as the main one -- I have found that I can't use the #2 remote to program recording on the #1 machine, while the #1 remote will program recording for either input.