Can the second tuner of the ViP622 be split to 2 TV's

[Surprenant]

I have Dishnetwork and my father is soon getting it installed in his new house. We prewired his house only minor problem is he has 5 televisions although only 2 are going to be use at once normally. So I was just wondering if the second tuner can be split so that 2 of them use that tuner since the UHF remote will work anywhere. I do understand that if this can work that the televisions would dhow the same channel.

 

[Peter Parker]

You could send the TV2 signal out to wherever the common source of thse TVS is. Can you describe how the house is wired?

 

[Surprenant]

Well I am a neat freak and like my cable wires installed discretly and neat. when the installer came to my house and wanted to just drill through my walls I sent him away and rescheduled and ran all my cables into junction boxes. So to get one step ahead I ran the cable at my fathers house today but was just wondering if I could wire 2 TV's to tuner 2 on the 622,basically one will be in a room that will be only used when he is baby-sitting and the other would be in the garage. So the fact that if it works and they show the same channel it wouldnt be an issue.

 

[AriesGodofWar]

Yes, you can split the signal very easily. Great thing about UHF is you can get another 6.3 UHF Pro remote for $20, set it to the same channel as the original UHF remote, and have one in each room so you do not have to tote the remote from room to room. I have the TV2 out split at my house and it works great. One into the Living room TV and one into the bedroom. We have no need to watch TV in those 2 rooms at once.

 

[cdh1000]

Yes, i did this in my house. beware, the splitter can degrade the picture quality. I have TV2 active to my bedroom and to my office. never need it in both at once.

 

[AriesGodofWar]

Yes, i did this in my house. beware, the splitter can degrade the picture quality. I have TV2 active to my bedroom and to my office. never need it in both at once.

The longer the run, the weak the signal will become, however, I am not sure what the power of the signal from the TV2 port is (I know someone here can tell you), but I believe it is rather powerful as I have heard of folks having to use an attenuator on old TVs.

 

[vegassatellite]

The longer the run, the weak the signal will become, however, I am not sure what the power of the signal from the TV2 port is (I know someone here can tell you), but I believe it is rather powerful as I have heard of folks having to use an attenuator on old TVs.

IIRC, it is about +15dB

 

[prcasher]

I used an amplified 1 to 4 splitter from Radio Shack, seems to work fine, I don't know if they're still available. I then splt two of the outputs to get 6 tvs.

 

[GNASH]

I used an amplified 1 to 4 splitter from Radio Shack, seems to work fine, I don't know if they're still available. I then splt two of the outputs to get 6 tvs.

We have the outputs from our 625 and 722 combined together and then output to 5 TVs without an amplified splitter and it seems to be ok (there is a little static on a couple of the channels, but nothing we can't live without).

Geoff