Author Topic: DirecTV question (Read 226 times)

Gunslinger · « **on:** March 26, 2006, 08:38:00 AM »

At the new house I have a different dish. It is slightly more oval and has 3 LMBs vrs 1 and has 4 outputs. In the house box it has a smart switch that is a 6X8 (6 in 8 out) Now there's only 4 dish feeds on it and the other two are "flex inputs" ON the opposite side it has 8 outputs that hook up to the house cable and 4 external coax cables.

Does this mean I can have 8 recievers hooked up to this one dish?

Right now I'm using the equivalent of four and would like to hook up one more so actually I only want 5 but is 8 total really possible?

rpm · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2006, 10:53:31 AM »

Depends on the type of reciever you are trying to connect, Guns. DVR's take 2 coax inputs.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2006, 11:44:36 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Depends on the type of reciever you are trying to connect, Guns. DVR's take 2 coax inputs.

I'm leaving the DVR out of the equation and just counting it as two. I am using 4 total outputs and was wondering if the other four will work as well?

rpm · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2006, 12:12:45 PM »

They should.

Vart69 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2006, 10:30:52 PM »

Maybe I can help, the dish is called a Phase3 Dish w/triple LNB. The smart box is a multiswitch and yes you can run up to 8 receivers on it. Hey, It's a livin!

And DVR's can run on 1 or 2 inputs from the multiswitch depending if you want to record 1 channel while watching another. The multiswitch you have might (without lookin at it) support local HD when it becomes available.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #5 on:** April 02, 2006, 10:52:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Vart69
Maybe I can help, the dish is called a Phase3 Dish w/triple LNB. The smart box is a multiswitch and yes you can run up to 8 receivers on it. Hey, It's a livin! And DVR's can run on 1 or 2 inputs from the multiswitch depending if you want to record 1 channel while watching another. The multiswitch you have might (without lookin at it) support local HD when it becomes available.

Thanks!

I got all 4 running right now and just wondered incase I ever feel like putting 2 more in the kids room or a DVR/TIVO upstars.

I did something else that I tought was pretty cool. I found an old but really good modulator that I ran my S-video out into as well as the sound from my computer. I setup in the ATI desktop settings to only output a display when actual video is playing and to output it in full screen.

Then I hooked that up to my house cable and butted it at the box with a few other runds that arent being used. Now I can watch movies from my computer onto my TV downstairs on the big TV and on a few other outlets through out the house. My next step is to find a PC remote control that runs on RF and not IR.