P Smith said:
It's matter of SW implementation - nothing preventing J send a request for two stream to h2k - MoCA cable or Ethernet connection would sustain two HD channels. Lets check if the J's CPU support two streams ...
Depending on where the brains are it could be one stream ... but I suspect two would be needed with the PIP done on the Joey and not the Hopper. The PIP could be done on the Hopper and have one stream sent to the Joey but there would be lag time. Or the Joeys could have swap only without PIP ... which would save the trouble of implementing PIP on a Joey and still give access to two streams, one at a time over the network.
The biggest issue is tuner capacity. The Hopper is a three tuner receiver with a hopper full of PTA and possibly other programming. If dual buffers were on Hoppers and Joeys one would need more sources. I suppose someone could watch a DVR or PTA recording and swap back to a live show but I don't see people swapping back and forth between two recorded shows.
PIP and swap seem to be features aimed at live television viewing ... with a buffer for when one needs to go back to see something they missed. Without additional live tuner capacity I don't see PIP on the Joey being workable - and there are days I'd like to turn it off completely on my Hopper. (For example, right now my Hopper is using two tuners and one of my Joeys is using the third. I have not watched one minute of that second channel on my Hopper today, but it is burning up a tuner "just in case" I press swap.)