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achildfromthe80s
05-28-07, 09:22 PM
Hi everyone!

I was wondering if someone could lend some advice. Last year I moved into my first house and used the mover program. The guy came out but only hooked up one connection to my DVR so I can only watch what I am recording. I would really like to record one thing and watch another but the installer said he would have to drill a hole into my wall. I'm a tad uncomfortable with that and was wondering what your experiences were.

Thanks a bunch!!!!
Brad
philslc
05-28-07, 09:27 PM
I was wondering if someone could lend some advice. Last year I moved into my first house and used the mover program. The guy came out but only hooked up one connection to my DVR so I can only watch what I am recording. I would really like to record one thing and watch another but the installer said he would have to drill a hole into my wall. I'm a tad uncomfortable with that and was wondering what your experiences were.


Today an installer drilled a hole in the wall to bring a dual coax to my new HR20-100. No big deal.

Phil
henree
05-28-07, 09:51 PM
Today an installer drilled a hole in the wall to bring a dual coax to my new HR20-100. No big deal.

Phil

The custumer (achildfromthe80s) is umcomfortable with hole being drilled. The tech most likely wanted to drill another hole to bring in the second line but the custumer was umcomfortable. Is this correct?
JLucPicard
05-28-07, 10:01 PM
You cannot get dual tuner functionality on the DVR unless you have two cables connected to the two tuner inputs. You cannot 'split' the signal from a single cable to feed both tuners. The only option at this time is to run a second cable to the DVR. That may not be an acceptable solution, but I'm afraid you will need to use the DVR as you are now.

Having said that, there is soon to be the ability to feed certain DVRs off of one cable. I am not familiar with it other than to know that there are threads here (in one of the other forums) dealing with the working/timing of it, etc. It is called SWM and I'm sure you could find info on it searching for that.

Good luck - that may be soon enough to be a viable option for you, depending mainly on which model DVR you have (I don't think it works with any of the DTiVos, but again, I haven't really looked into it much yet).