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Milkman

07-04-07, 03:59 AM

I am just a guy with a 2 Bedroom house, and I look at these setups that some of you have, and they are absolutely INSANE. This isn't 1 or 2 of you either, but numerous people! I was curious of a couple of things.

#1 - What the heck do you have all of these to? This isn't like 1 or 2 people either, but LOTS of you. Do most of you just have 4 BR houses, and you are running to all BR's and a Living room?

#2 - How in the HELL do you get around the mirroring fees??? Don't you have to pay for mirroring for each and every receiver??? I know old Primestar customers don't have that problem...

Anyway, just curious!!!

AlbertZeroK

07-04-07, 05:33 AM

(1) Many of us have more than one DVR in a room. And a DVR in every room. It's the only option if people want every one's TV to operate independently.

(2) We pay them.

paulman182

07-04-07, 06:20 AM

I went for many years with only one receiver in the whole house with E*. After I switched to D*, I kinda went wild, with equipment being so inexpensive and mirroring fees so cheap.

skyviewmark1

07-04-07, 06:23 AM

I just have to be able to see my tv no matter what room I am in :)

CCarncross

07-04-07, 06:25 AM

2. you dont get around the mirroring fees, you pay $4.99 for each additional receiver on your acct.

Michael D'Angelo

07-04-07, 06:46 AM

dave29

07-04-07, 07:02 AM

i have tvs in almost every room, including a flat panel mounted above my jacuzzi in the master bathroom.

yeah the mirroring fees add up

Ken S

07-04-07, 09:00 AM

Are all of you admitting to insanity?

dave29

07-04-07, 09:38 AM

nope, just love tv

CobraGuy

07-04-07, 09:39 AM

I have an HR20 in the living room. I have another HR20 in a bedroom and an R15 in a 2nd bedroom. I will be running 2 lines to another bedroom so I can hook my other R15 back up. Then I have an HR20 and 2 H20's in my basement for football season. NFL Ticket is great. I will be soon adding another HR20 in the basement so I can watch a 4th game and during the fall and spring some nights there are 3 or 4 shows on at one time that I want to watch and as of right now I cannot record all of them in that room and that is where I do all of my TV watching.

For your second question I just pay them.

DAMN Bmore!! That's just...well...just...man. That's an amazing set up. Makes me wish I had bought some stock in an RG6 company! :D Your house has to be an electrician's dream....

Edit: I just read your post to my wife....she wants to know if you're single. Hmmm....I wonder what that means????

Michael D'Angelo

07-04-07, 09:53 AM

DAMN Bmore!! That's just...well...just...man. That's an amazing set up. Makes me wish I had bought some stock in an RG6 company! :D Your house has to be an electrician's dream....

Edit: I just read your post to my wife....she wants to know if you're single. Hmmm....I wonder what that means????

I have a OK setup. But I do appreciate the compliment.

aim2pls

07-04-07, 10:04 AM

DAMN Bmore!! That's just...well...just...man. That's an amazing set up. Makes me wish I had bought some stock in an RG6 company! :D Your house has to be an electrician's dream....

Edit: I just read your post to my wife....she wants to know if you're single. Hmmm....I wonder what that means????

don't know if Bmore is single ... but say hello to my sister in law ... and tell her her sister finally gave up .... LOL

captain_video

07-04-07, 10:40 AM

I used to have four or five DTivos and HDTivos on my account but recently switched over to FIOS. Both my kids are either away at school or living on their own so I didn't need full-time receivers for them. My wife could care less about anything more technical than the ability to turn on the TV and change channels, let alone operate a DVR so she's fine with a standard set top box.

I had multiple DVRs in the same room, mainly because I had an insane number of season passes and I liked to pad all of my recordings so I needed a lot of tuners to allow the padding and avoid any conflicts. It was a bit of a juggling act to distribute the season passes but I managed it somehow. I did have a couple of DTivos that had MRV so my son could use it in his room while he was home from school during the summer. I used the MRV feature to transfer the recordings on his DTivo to mine so I could watch them on my main TV.

I can see why some people have numerous DVRs because the only difference in cost is the $5.99 DVR fee, so it just makes sense to switch out all standard receivers with DVRs.

I think the comment about BMore being single has more to do with having time on his hands and money in his pockets because most married guys like me don't have either one.

wa2joc

07-04-07, 10:52 AM

We have two R15s in our family room controlled by a RF remote control and pay one mirroring fee.

To see programming on other TVs in the house, we use a Sony MRD-D1 multi room distribution system The same RF remote works in all the rooms and we avoid the issue of wondering on which DVR in what room we recorded a program.

bonscott87

07-04-07, 11:25 AM

On our home theater we have 2 DVRs and used to have an old HD receiver which I finally retired (but now have a FTA receiver in it's place).
One DVR in the patio.
We have no TV in the bedroom, used to but found out we just never used it so we scrapped it.
We also have no TV in the "living room".
Guess maybe we don't qualify. ;)

Small 3 Bedroom house.

mluntz

07-04-07, 11:34 AM

nope, just love tv

Man, that's a lot of tv's!!

dave29

07-04-07, 11:38 AM

Man, that's a lot of tv's!!

you should see the stack of dtv receivers i have not being used.

Tom Robertson

07-04-07, 11:39 AM

A chicken in every pot and a TV in nearly every room. With cable going the way it is, we'd either need a STB from the cable company or a receiver from DIRECTV .

And since the mirroring fees for a DVR are the same as a receiver, (until DIRECTV develops the home media center with clients) might was well make every receiver a DVR.

Cheers,
Tom

Tom Robertson

07-04-07, 11:40 AM

you should see the stack of dtv receivers i have not being used.

+1 (tho the last yard sale helped with that somewhat.)

Cheers,
Tom

dave29

07-04-07, 11:43 AM

i am slowly converting my receivers all to dvr's. i will have 8 hr20's before i am done and i am waiting for a new sddvr to come out for the other few tvs

dave29

07-04-07, 11:45 AM

hey tom, it looks like you only have one more h20 to convert to a hr20

joed32

07-04-07, 11:52 AM

In my den HT/Sports bar I use 5 TVs with 5 HD DVRs all DVRs are hooked up to the HD TVs. The other 3 TVs are CRTs, 1 TV with DVR in the living room. When it's not football season I cut back to 4 TVs in the den.

AlbertZeroK

07-04-07, 12:09 PM

you should see the stack of dtv receivers i have not being used.

+1

I stocked up on TIVOs when DSR7000's were $35 each from PTVUpgrade or where ever it was. I also have a stack of R15's. We were to get 4 R15's originally, well the installation company that came out went out of buisness the day before our install. So a second set of receivers were sent out to us, we were allowed to keep them as long as we activated them (so we activated them for a month, then turned them off).

JLucPicard

07-04-07, 02:53 PM

I just moved into a one bedroom apartment after moving out of a house.

My current set-up:
One TV - 60" Sony Wega LCD
4 HR20s and 1 HR10-250 running through an HDMI Switch to one HDMI input on the Sony
2 HR10-250s connected to the two component inputs on the Sony
2 SD-DVR80s (one jacked to over 200 hrs) connected via S-Video to the Sony

2 Series 2 Stand-alone TiVos recording off of Life-Line cable (back-up recordings as I have Lifetime service on them anyway) and 1 Series 2 Stand-alone TiVo with a DVD burner running of a D10/Life-Line cable (I used this to record and burn stuff - mostly MMA - for my nephew while he was serving in Iraq) and Lifetime on that, too. All of these stand-alones are connected to the Sony through a VCR using coax.

Plus I have a DVD player connected to the Sony as well.

The collection basically evolved over time. I bought one of the HR10-250s when they came out. Got another discounted through D* a while later. Both are owned. Got another HR10-250 free from D* (leased). Also got an HR20 for $99 back when they came out. When I moved, they told me they needed to upgrade my three HR10-250s. NO CHARGE! Couldn't really say no.

One HR20 for each major network. Same with the HR10s (except for ABC - I find I watch next to nothing on ABC). Plus I utilize all of them for HDNet Movies, Universal HD, HBO HD, etc. And come football season, I record ALL games so I can flip around and catch all the important stuff. And I think there was maybe one Sunday in the last several years where I didn't have someone over watching ST with me.

SD DVRs cover poker, Chiller, other SD channels, etc. to save space on my HD DVRs.

The cable fed TiVos have saved me a few times when really bad weather knocked out my satellite reception, but I'll admit that I mostly just wind up sorting through and deleting things that I had watched already on another box.

I also have two DSR6000s, two SD-DVR40s, and one more SD-DVR80 on the sideline right now.

Mirroring fees? Just pay 'em like everyone else.

By the way, I deplore Universal Remotes - don't own one. Thank goodness for TiVos Remote Address codes. Now, if the HR20s would just do that! :)

spartanstew

07-04-07, 09:26 PM

Several years ago, we had 2 D*tivo's in the living room, and standard receivers in the following rooms: office, master bedroom, game room, HT, guest bedroom, workout/scrapbook room, loft (computer area).

That was 9 receivers in the house.

I've since converted to a distribution system and only have the 2 D*tivo's in the living room and they send the signal to the other TV's in the house.

So, to answer your questions:

1. It's a 5 bedroom house (and office and home theater and loft/computer station.
2. I get around the mirroring fees by distributing.

loudo

07-04-07, 09:56 PM

I have only a HR20 and a H20, but feed 5 TVs with the two of them.

I feed HD or SD outputs of the two receivers to baluns and output the baluns into the Cat6 wiring, that runs throughout the house. I wired the house with 4 Cat6 runs to each room (HD requires 2 Cat6 lines to get the entire HD signal and analog audio from the receiver to the TV).

With just my wife and I at home, we use the two RF remotes and can feed the signal to anyone of the 5 sets.

Blitz68

07-04-07, 09:57 PM

(1) Many of us have more than one DVR in a room. And a DVR in every room. It's the only option if people want every one's TV to operate independently.

(2) We pay them.

Yup. This is how it is.

You start getting TV's and soon they are in the kitchen, garage and all the bedrooms, family room and so on.

they add up.

Grydlok

07-04-07, 10:09 PM

2 HR-20-700's
1 HR-10 -250
2 R10's pieces of junk.
One samsung on the shelf and a one hughes on the shelf.

zinger1457

07-04-07, 10:59 PM

Have a question. How many of you guys with the 10 DVR/TV setup have one of those recliners with the beer cooler in the armrest?:rolleyes:

Milkman

07-05-07, 12:31 PM

Well thanks for the answers guys.

I do have one question, If your second receiver is a DVR, do you get a mirroring charge AND a DVR charge (~$10.00)?

loudo

07-05-07, 12:38 PM

Well thanks for the answers guys.

I do have one question, If your second receiver is a DVR, do you get a mirroring charge AND a DVR charge (~$10.00)?

Yes, unless you subscribe to the Premier package, that package includes you DVR fee.

bonscott87

07-05-07, 12:43 PM

Well thanks for the answers guys.

I do have one question, If your second receiver is a DVR, do you get a mirroring charge AND a DVR charge (~$10.00)?

The DVR fee covers all DVRs on your account. That's all I have, DVRs. Why would my "1st" receiver be a non-DVR. ;)

Milkman

07-05-07, 12:52 PM

oh ok. So there is only one DVR charge no matter how many DVR's you have, but the mirroring charge is per receiver over 1, is that right?

Thanks again all!

Michael D'Angelo

07-05-07, 12:54 PM

oh ok. So there is only one DVR charge no matter how many DVR's you have, but the mirroring charge is per receiver over 1, is that right?

Thanks again all!

Yes that is correct and if you have the premier package you don't pay the DVR fee. It comes with the package.

loudo

07-05-07, 12:55 PM

oh ok. So there is only one DVR charge no matter how many DVR's you have, but the mirroring charge is per receiver over 1, is that right?

Thanks again all!
That is correct.

mx6bfast

07-05-07, 01:19 PM

Man, I feel like a poser reading all of yall's setups. But here goes mine with older pics, but you can see where the D* boxes have been upgraded/replaced.

LR - HR20 and H20 connected to Mitsu 42" RPTV. pic below - middle.
Master BR - HR20 connected to 30" Sharp Aquos LCD. pic - right
Game - Deactivated Hughes e86 connected to 32" Samsung 4x3. (Yes they still made them in 2003 when I bought it.) :) . pic - left
Office - D* SD-Tivo connected to 13" tv
Toddler's room - Deactivated Hughes e86 connected to 17" Phillips LCD. (Great deal at BB, bought for the future and us watching sports in there together. But Baby and Little Einstein's DVD plays almost non-stop)
Guest - Deactivated Hughes e86 connected to older 19" Sharp SD

Only 4 stb's active on account. LR, master, game, toddler rooms all HDTV

Now...staab I about had a conniption when I saw all of your tv's. And JLuc, good gawd man, all those connected to 1 tv?

Wow to you both. Ya'lls bills must be pushing $200 a month.

spartanstew

07-05-07, 11:10 PM

mx, you must have the neck of a giraffe. I've never seen so many TV's so high

Ed Campbell

07-05-07, 11:41 PM

purtman

07-06-07, 01:01 AM

Dave

07-06-07, 01:24 AM

Incase you are looking for a distribution system. You can get the aforementioned Sony MRD-D1 at.

www.satellitetheater.com for $ 99.00.

old7

07-06-07, 01:36 AM

Incase you are looking for a distribution system. You can get the aforementioned Sony MRD-D1 at.

www.satellitetheater.com for $ 99.00.

Or on EBay for about $25.

Ebay - SONY MRD-D1 (http://cgi.ebay.com/New-SONY-MRD-D1-MultiRoom-Distribution-IR-MODULATOR_W0QQitemZ270139482180QQihZ017QQcategoryZ 11726QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

mx6bfast

07-06-07, 09:01 AM

mx, you must have the neck of a giraffe. I've never seen so many TV's so high
Actually I'm only 5'10", my wife is 5', and Landon is 37" :)

We put them up a little higher because we knew our children would eventually try to mess with them. It just so happens the very first RPTV I looked at was the only one that fit in the nook. It has about 1 inch of room at the top. Proof of this is Landon likes the little blue power light on our H20 and HR20 and likes to turn it off/on. Now he's become fasinated with the power button on the A/V reciever.

But they were a bitch to hang up and put up. Woo-hoo, more room to vacuum for me! :D

spoonman

07-06-07, 11:44 AM

you should see the stack of dtv receivers i have not being used.

They do add up, don't they :lol:

bsnelson

07-06-07, 01:54 PM

I've got eight (8) operational and subscribed DirecTV with TiVo receivers (one HR10 and the others various TiVo Series 2 models) in ONE room with a SINGLE TV. :)

We use them to record the NHL hockey games. All of them. All 1,230 per season. Yeah, we dig hockey. :)

Brad

Newshawk

07-06-07, 02:03 PM

We use them to record the NHL hockey games. All of them. All 1,230 per season. Yeah, we dig hockey. :)

Brad

Oh, so YOU'RE the one! :lol:

mhayes70

07-06-07, 02:53 PM

I pretty much have a tv in everyroom of the house. I have a 2 story 3 bedroom house.

1-HR20-700 in the family room
1-HR20-100 in my home office
1-R15 in the den
2-R15 in 2 bedrooms
1-D10 in the garage
1-H20 in the bedroom

I think that is it. :sure: