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Basic questions before taking the leap to DirecTV from Dish about the Whole-Home
Hi all,
I am a Dish Network customer, who is considering the move to Direct to get all our local baseball games as Dish doesn't provide all of them.
So I have some simple questions:
I want to get two HD-DVRs. I only have two TVs currently.
So say, TV in the bedroom is TV1/2, living room 3/4
I have no interest in On-Demand stuff, etc. Just want to watch TV 🙂
So if I understand this correctly, if I get two HD DVRs for two TV's I can:
Use the TV in the bedroom to record two programs at a time on TV 1/2
Use the TV in the living room to record a program on TV '4' and watch live TV on TV '3'
Access DVRd programs from TV's 1/2/4 from either of the TV's in my house.
Watch in HD in both rooms.
Not have to have anything fancy to hook it into my internet service.
My biggest hesitation always has been the lack of multi-room DVR. I currently have the Dish VIP 722 DVR. It is a good DVR, but only one HD feed. But it's been nice to have the ability to start watching the record in the living room, finish watching it before we fall asleep in the bedroom.
With this, we can continue this practice, plus reserve the ability to just watch LIVE tv anytime we want? The biggest problem with the dish setup is that if we want to record two things at the same time, no live TV capability, hence why I would consider two DVRs.
Last thing, if I only got one DVR, I would be in the same situation as my current VIP 722, correct?
Thanks
dcd
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15 years ago
One DVR and one HD receiver would only allow two recordings at once on the DVR but you could concurrently watch live TV on the receiver. If you got two DVR's then you could record as many as three things at once and still watch live TV. All of the MRV stuff would be in HD if it was recorded that way. Personally, I have 3 DVR's and we have lots of flexibility.
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opprime
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15 years ago
Oh! I didn't even think of this.
I could put the DVR, which will record two lines, in teh bedroom, the regular HD receiver in the living room, use the bedroom TV to record and watch those recorded shows in living room, plus watch live TV while it was recording. RIght?
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djdicetn
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15 years ago
Almost...with one HD DVR and one HD receiver you could:
1)Record two different programs on the DVR(and a third if you connect it to the Internet and download content from On Demand at the same time) while either watching a live channel OR previouslyl recorded content from the DVR on the Receiver.
2)Record one program(two with Internet connected On Demand) on the DVR while watching a live chanel on the DVR....AND...watch a live channel OR previously recorded content from the DVR pn the Receiver.
Basically(other than the "background" Internet connected On Demand download to the DVR), you have three tuners available(two on the DVR and one on the Receiver) that allow you to do combinations of three "tuner activities" simultaneously(combinations of viewing one live channel on either box while recording on the "unviewed" tuner(s)). Of course you cannot "record" on the HD receiver(no internal hard drive), but I guess you knew that:0)
Does that make it any clearer??????
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