PIP Question: Can I watch two network stations at the same time?

[Alan Rovner]

Hi all, can I watch a football game on Fox and CBS at the same time using PIP? If not, can I do it using the external OTA tuner? Thanks, Alan Rovner

 

[JasonSu]

With VIP series receivers you can do that with the receiver in single mode. The Hopper you can do that as long as there is a tuner for each station. The OTA load those channels into the receiver and it has its own tuner for the OTA.

 

[thomasjk]

Hi all, can I watch a football game on Fox and CBS at the same time using PIP? If not, can I do it using the external OTA tuner? Thanks, Alan Rovner

Yes you can. Can't do it OTA.

 

[ChadT41]

If hopper, pip will work, if a joey, pip does not work.

 

[Hall]

The Hopper you can do that as long as there is a tuner for each station

Is a 2nd tuner is needed. Even though it's not necessarily between 8pm and 11pm, won't the PTAT functionality still be used ? This is because the "locals" should be on the same transponder.

 

[Joe Satellite Fan]

No problem, I do it every Sunday ... NFL and NASCAR

 

[odbrv]

I do it all the time . I watch football on Sundays on CBS and FOX at the same time. This only uses 1 tuner. That leaves 2 tuners and the OTA tuner available to others in the house. I can also use OTA as one of the PIP tuners and a non OTA channel on the other. This is because there is only one OTA tuner allowed on a Hopper.

 

[jerryez]

Is the side by side PIP in HD, so you can read the jersey numbers on their backs when the ball is snapped. I will try it Saturday and Sunday.

 

[ChadT41]

Pip is HD if you are tuned to 2 Hd stations. Just smaller screens.

 

[jerryez]

Thanks, I have all SD stations blocked

 

[ChadT41]

The only time I could see you affected then, would be if you had slight signal loss, and it reverted to the SD equivalent.