622 setup

[cyclone27]

I'm getting a 622. I have a 510 DVR I'm keeping & a 4900 I'll be getting rid of. My plan is to move the 510 to the TV upstairs that is not HD(TV2). I will be hooking the 622 just up to my HDTV (TV1) in the basement.

Will this then allow me to watch the two satellite channels with PIP or record one channel and watch another on TV1? I often want to watch more than one game at a time, so I would use my PIP alot with the 622.

If I got rid of the 510 & just had the 622 hooked to each TV, would this limit my ability on PIP or watching/recording two programs at once on TV1 if TV2 is being watched at the same time?

I'm not exactly sure how the dual tuner works, so I'm trying to decide if I really need to keep the 510. There's two of us & we very rarely watch the same programming.

Any advice on how I should set this up would be great. Thanks.

[Rob Glasser]

If you want to have PIP running on your 622 in your basement, and you want someone else to be upstairs watching something completely different, then yes you need to keep the 510.

In Dual Mode, you lose PIP. One Sat tuner is dedicated to TV2 (upstairs in your case) and the other Sat tuner and OTA tuner are dedicated to TV1 (basement).

If you can afford to give up PIP whenever that upstairs TV is in use you can probably get away with not having the 510 but you'd have to switch modes from the front panel of the ViP-622 whenever you wanted to go between single or dual mode.

[cyclone27]

Thanks for your help, Rob. I guess I will probably keep the 510 also.

[cyclone27]

Thinking about this brought up another question.
If I put the 510 on the upstairs TV, then had the 622 connected to my TV1 in the basement could I have them connect the 622 also to a bedroom TV (not currently wired for Dish)? Would connecting to the bedroom TV be covered in my $299?

I assume then I could run TV1 in single mode & have full use of PIP when watching that & switch it to dual mode to watch the bedroom TV (TV2) at night. Am I right in this thinking?

[Rob Glasser]

I can't tell you whether or not it's included in the install, but what you want to do would work. In fact if you weren't going to be watching both TVs hooked up to the 622 at the same time, or rather watching different shows on both TVs at the same time there is no reason to even take it out of single mode. The UHF remote that comes with the 622 will control the 622 in single mode and the RF output works in single mode.

[cyclone27]

Thanks again, Rob.

What kind of connection does TV2 need? I think the TV in the bedroom only has a coax connection.

[Rob Glasser]

Yes. There is a coax RF output on the 622 that can output TV1 and TV2 on seperate channels that can then be run throughout your house.