Dish keeps advertising you can watch 2 games at once when the NCAA tournament starts
Forgive me, but how do you accomplish this on the hopper?
Forgive me, but how do you accomplish this on the hopper?
Dish - Split Screen for NCAA tournament?
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There are four games happening at a time... one on CBS, one on TNT, one on Tru, and one on TBS. Pick what you want.
You're missing the part where Dish says you can use split screen. And I hope to god it's not on a SD channel
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PIP will allow HD viewing of 2 channels. I am wondering if they are talking about a mosaic channel....
I have also seen this commercial. They pass it off as a technology not PIP. IIRC the commercial said DirecTV can't do that, so I assume it's a feature and not just PIP.
In that case, what *I* would expect is a quad split screen showing all four channels. Even better would be a cursor on the screen highlighting one channel. The sound follows the cursor, and if you press 'Select', you get taken to the appropriate channel.
Channel 149 is a joke. A slate listing the four channel numbers? What a waste. That's all it was when I tuned in last night (with games being played).
Has anyone found a split screen channel?
There is no split screen channel. Plain and simple. They were most likely talking about being able to watch two HD channels at once using the VIP and Hopper receivers in a side-by-side PIP.
Here is the correct answer that worked for me. I never knew my satellite could do this. All the games I watched over the years flipping back and forth.
https://www.directly.com/p/dish-network-how-do-i-split-the-screen-85885
They are referencing the tool specifically used for the NCAA Basketball Games. If you have a hopper, you just go to channel 151, and it should be 4 screens split. I just changed mine to it now, and its on 6 screens, with one that says unavailable(Im guessing something blacked out or unsubscribed like an RSN). You can also find it in the apps on the hopper, under sports>College Basketball Top 25 which will also give the option for channel 151.
yep, that would be the Big Ten network that's blacked out, same goes for PAC 12 Network as both are RSNs.
I know the Genie Does, but with the same limitations as the Hopper: PIP at Hopper/Genie, not at the clients. However, Dish does have a feature at both Hopper and Joey that keeps at least 3 (more if tuned to more than one LiL) channels in the buffer, and you switch to the one you want at anytime. This is called the MULTI-SWAP feature and must be enabled on your Hopper Joey through the menu, SETTINGS, DIAGNOSTICS, MULTI-SWAP. You can only view ONE channel at a time (no PIP), but you can swap between the many channels quickly and have full trick play on all channels.
