We are setting up our Dish system and ran into a problem.
We have 5 TV's. Three HDTV's (Family room plasma, kitchen plasma, basement HDTV, bedroom SDTV, and basement SDTV). The family room TV has it's own single-tuner HDTV box hooked up with component and uses an IR remote. For the basement HDTV and kitchen plasma TV, we have a ViP222. The component goes upstairs to the kitchen TV (TV 1) and we use a UHF-to-IR conversion box to control TV-1 using UHF remote.
Then, in the basement, the HDTV is connected to composite (SD) inputs for TV 2. We also plan on getting RCA splitters to hook it up to the TV-1 component output with the kitchen plasma TV. That way, two TV's can both have HD or the basement can have a different channel in SD. The IR TV1 and UHF TV2 remotes both go in the basement.
Now, in the bedroom, we have an SDTV. We just hooked up our old Dish receiver in there, and we're running into a problem with our 5th TV. We have an old UHF-to-IR conversion kit (looks like a small pyramid) with UHF remote (the old black kind with blue buttons). We want to take a coax line off of the ViP222's TV-2 output and run it to the basement SDTV, but we need another remote. The only remote we have left is the old one, and it appears to be incompatible with the ViP222. Since I want it to control TV-2, it could use either the ViP222's UHF or IR inputs (or can it only use UHF?). Is there a way to use an old UHF remote with a new (ViP222) receiver?
We have 5 TV's. Three HDTV's (Family room plasma, kitchen plasma, basement HDTV, bedroom SDTV, and basement SDTV). The family room TV has it's own single-tuner HDTV box hooked up with component and uses an IR remote. For the basement HDTV and kitchen plasma TV, we have a ViP222. The component goes upstairs to the kitchen TV (TV 1) and we use a UHF-to-IR conversion box to control TV-1 using UHF remote.
Then, in the basement, the HDTV is connected to composite (SD) inputs for TV 2. We also plan on getting RCA splitters to hook it up to the TV-1 component output with the kitchen plasma TV. That way, two TV's can both have HD or the basement can have a different channel in SD. The IR TV1 and UHF TV2 remotes both go in the basement.
Now, in the bedroom, we have an SDTV. We just hooked up our old Dish receiver in there, and we're running into a problem with our 5th TV. We have an old UHF-to-IR conversion kit (looks like a small pyramid) with UHF remote (the old black kind with blue buttons). We want to take a coax line off of the ViP222's TV-2 output and run it to the basement SDTV, but we need another remote. The only remote we have left is the old one, and it appears to be incompatible with the ViP222. Since I want it to control TV-2, it could use either the ViP222's UHF or IR inputs (or can it only use UHF?). Is there a way to use an old UHF remote with a new (ViP222) receiver?
