A lady I ran into at work told me that her Satellite Installer gave her 2 Dish Network Satellite Receivers, and she only got the Package that covers only one room (Use with one of the Receivers). She said that the Installer told her how to hook-up the Second Receiver, so that she can get Satellite in another room for free. She told me that she ran a Splitter directly off of the Dish, and ran a Separate Cable off of it, into another Room. She now gets Dish Network in 2 Rooms, eventhough she paying Service for only One Room!!
How is this Possible?!? I have 2 Recievers too, but have only one room Functioning. This has realy got me thinking.....
How exactly do I get the Second Receiver to get all of the Programming I get with the First, without getting Service for the Second Reciever?!? I have 2 MLB's on my Dish, just for your information...
2007-11-06 17:28:27 · 15 answers · asked by Diog 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
I have Dish but don't see how you can even if you work there because if you split it off of the receiver you will have to watch whatever the receiver is on how else are you going to change the channels, you can't even tape a show on one channel and watch something else on another channel, the TV has to be on the channel your taping so you can't change the channel to watch something else, that's one advantage to cable if you don't have a box you can split as much as you want, been there done that, the deal when I got mine was two receivers for the price of one.........
2007-11-06 17:41:25 · answer #1 · answered by Greeneyes 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here is some groundwork basics: the Dish receives a signal for one satelite at 110 degrees and a signal from a satelite at 119 degrees( by being pointed partially at both directions) Another satelite dish may be required for 148 degrees when using the echostar system.
Each box will change the channel and send a signal to help switch from one satelite to another. If you have two boxes the switch is either on one satelite or the other at a time, but channels can be different on each box depending if the switch is sharing the same satelite.
You can have one box and send the signal to two televisions by using a coaxial spitter, or use the component jacks and the coaxial if your box has both, and or if you have hd satelite use a HDMI splitter to go to two tvs. If you have an ir repeater you can use the satelite remote to change channels in a room where the box is not present. But if both TVs are on they will show the same show.
I ran a 60 foot line of HDMI using three patched cords but the signal was weak/no good. I changed to a heavy duty HDMI which uses a thicker wire and added a signal amplifier and now both tvs work well.
2007-11-06 18:24:12 · answer #2 · answered by Philip H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you can put the splitter on the line running from the dish to the first receiver, the input connection, and then from the two outgoing connections on the splitter to the two different receivers. I have my cable set up that way and it works fine. It may not be legal but with all the competition between cable and dish service I doubt the dish network would make too big of a complaint about it or even really care if you do that or not.
2007-11-06 17:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by Al B 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your house is already wired for cable, then you can run the signal back through the cable, and use an infrared remote to change channel in the other room. The downside is that you can't watch 2 different things at the same time--unless you have picture-in-picture feature with your tv.
So, dish antennae -> receiver 1 -> coax cable from receiver 1 output jack -> coax cable in to tv 2 (receiver 2 not necessary if your tv tuner allows enough channels)
Radio Shack has IR remotes. I got mine straight from Dish when the installer came out.
By the way, this was perfectly legal with Dish, since it simply allowed me to watch from my 1 receiver in 2 rooms. I could have done the same in any room with a cable outlet, since my house was already wired for cable. You're essentially using your house cable to transfer the signal throughout the house.
2007-11-06 17:38:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not real sure how that would work. I do have a dish network receiver you can have if you pay for the shipping. I just switched to direct tv. It's just the basic receiver without dvr but I have no need for it. Let me know if you want it. If not, it's going in the trash.
2007-11-06 17:35:28 · answer #5 · answered by Brian C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you have two receivers, it means Dish activated two receivers, so you pay for 2 and should get the same programming on both.
If that lady activated two receivers, she pays for them. I think it is $5/month for an extra receiver - this is two coffees, hardly a sum to be bothered with.
If you don't want to pay for two receivers, you can still get a dual-tuner Dish receiver and you can configure it to send video to two rooms.
2007-11-06 17:38:06 · answer #6 · answered by TV guy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My Dish Satellite
2016-12-18 12:38:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not legal of course.lol. BUT there is a way to do it, go to Wal-mart (probably cheapest) and buy a spliter, and some cable cord. However, whatever channel you're watching on one box, you would watch on the other. Now if you had cable it would be different/ Hope this helps. OH i just seen you have two boxes, why not just pay the extra 5 dollars or whatever to get that one working? Just asking.lol. But the splitter thing works like I said. Good luck.
2007-11-06 17:34:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Watching tv is easier but I love reading books more
2017-03-02 04:17:14 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while reading a book, you're stimulating the human brain. You increase your literacy and reading skills therefore you in the process, become more literate. Despite having today's modern tools, you still need to have the ability to read.
While you're watching t.v. can be good fun, it isn't doing anything to your brain.
2017-01-31 00:20:19 · answer #10 · answered by Christian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋