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> On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:58:02 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> On 1 May 2008 17:49:51 GMT phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> | On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:37:20 GMT Lloyd Parsons
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> |> | | In article <fvbpju11c5d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> | |> DishNet documents the ViP722 somewhat unclearly. But it seems
that it has
> |> | |> two satellite tuners and one ATSC tuner integrated. In one
place they say
> |> | |> it is possible to record 2 programs from sattelite at the same
time while
> |> | |> watching a third program being played back from disk. What I
cannot figure
> |> | |> out is if both recordings can be in HD at the same time, even
though the 2nd
> |> | |> tuner is normally used to output only SD to a 2nd TV. I would
think it should
> |> | |> since it would in theory just be recording the compressed
bitstream. Then it
> |> | |> would downconvert later for an SD output?
> |> | |>
> |> | |> Can I watch an OTA ATSC program while recording 2 HD programs
from satellite?
> |> | |>
> |> | |> Can I record one satellite program in HD, plus record one OTA
ATSC program in
> |> | |> HD, while watching a different satellite program in HD?
> |> | |>
> |> | |> Can I record all three of: 2 satellite HD programs plus 1 OTA
ATSC HD program
> |> | |> at the same time?
> |> | |
> |> | | You can record 3 HD sources at once, while watching a 4th program
you
> |> | | have recorded.
> |> |
> |> | Thanks. Now the next thing I need to figure out is if it lets me
have channel
> |> | sets to surf through. I'm the type of person that prefers to just
see what is
> |> | on each channel. But with a hundred plus channels, that doesn't
work. Most
> |> | channels I'd never watch, anyway. But someone else gave a link
supposedly to
> |> | the user manual on it, so I should check that out.
> |>
> |> It does not explicitly say how many favorites lists it supports. But
the
> |> menu illustration hints that at least 6 are possible. That would
meet my
> |> needs. This will be something I need to confirm if I decide to
switch to
> |> DishNet.
> |>
> |
> |
> | Dunno if there's a correlation, but my 622 box supports up to six fave
> | lists.
Minor correction from above...
The DishTV 622 supports four favorite lists per TV. I have a dual TV
setup, ie. TV1 and TV2 - and there are four per. Which is handy if the
TV's are primarily viewed by different people, they can each have their
own favorite lists, each color coded and each with a unique name.
>
> Can you put any OTA ATSC SUBchannel in the favorites? Would they have a
> number "dot" number _or_ number "dash" number format that way?
Yes, OTA channels in 'dot' format are available for any favorite list,
including sub-channels.
>
> The thing I wonder about this box is that it only has 2 inputs. Yet
DishNET
> has more than 2 satellites.
>
I have a single dish antenna, but it has three LNB's on the nose. One
piece of RG-6 lead-in cable feeds through a diplexer, then to the sat
box. TV1 ir fed w/HDMI from the sat box, but TV2 is fed from the
diplexer via RG-6, which isn't what I expected, but works fine, and the
HDMI connector on TV2 isn't used.
I think the three LNB's are required for my level of service, which is
the whole enchilada including local OTA stuff. I have an external
antenna connected to the sat box in case a biggo bird comes along and
eats the dish. I can't do without my commercials. :P
--
jer
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