RG-6 is only needed where there are relatively high currents in the cable. Unless they're planning on powering the XiP110 through the cable, I don't expect this to be the case.
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What is meant.. is that the 813 only has outputs for "TV1" on it. If you look on the back, all outputs are dedicated to 1 TV not like on a 922, or 722 which has outputs labeled for TV1 and TV2 on the back of the receiver.
And for the record there are THREE outputs from Scott's picture ... Composite (L/R audio & Video) a Component (Y,Pb,Pr) and an HDMI port. I wouldn't qualify the "Sat In/Home Video Network" port as an output, because you can not connect a TV to that port and see video, where as on any other dual TV out you have a port (or sets there of) that connect directly to a TV.
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And for the record there are THREE outputs from Scott's picture ... Composite (L/R audio & Video) a Component (Y,Pb,Pr) and an HDMI port. I wouldn't qualify the "Sat In/Home Video Network" port as an output, because you can not connect a TV to that port and see video, where as on any other dual TV out you have a port (or sets there of) that connect directly to a TV.
True, but I disagree with this misleading count. The Home Video output doesn't exist on any other Dish receiver, so comparing it (or the back panels) to Dish Duo receivers is not very illuminating. Can you get independent HD output to 3 (and possibly 4) TVs? I believe the answer is "Yes". Therefore, it should be called an 833 or 843, depending upon whether we can address the local output independently from the rest.
NO, you cannot.
Independent HD or SD to another TV requires the Xip110 therefore the 813 is NOT outputting it
The 813 has output to one TV and then you would need 110s for the other TVs you want connected. So 813 at your main TV and then 110 at the other locations.
Did you not bother to read ANY of the previous thread before you posted? If you had, you should have understood the back of the 813 clearly has outputs ... 3 of them ... for direct connection to a television. At arguement *this* late in game is a minor squabble over what you'd label an output in terms of out to a TV ...
I see what you're getting at... but I'd modify what you're thinking.. while the Home Video Network is an output.. you cannot hook a television directly to that output ... that output *must* go to a special splitter/switch, for distribution to a 110 box, and THEN it can go to a TV. Every other box to date, and usually when we think of "outputs" we mean for direct connection to a television.. composite, compoent, coax, hdmi ...
You can't even hook-up a regular TV to that "Home Video Network" port without a spliter/diplexer because its a combined satellite IN on that port.. and that would be *if* the designers thought about putting a TV Modulator on the output... like it didn't already have enough going on...
If you really wanted to count every port that could output something then you'd have to add the USB, the Ethernet, etc.. but then you'd call them collectively "ports" .... because they all have different purposes ... hence outputs being meant how many TV1 / TV2 outputs.. and hence ... 813 ... 1 tv output, 3 ports for that TV ... the *8* can stand for model 8 and that can be your "icing", that it can multiplex to the 110 boxes, key is that without those boxes you have no other TV output to connect to.
Well, the key IMHO is not the number of connections on the back, regardless of what they can be used for. The key is the number of independent feeds, over whatever medium that works, that eventually can be displayed on a TV. We have read in this thread (or the questions/answers thread) is that, unlike existing receivers, the tuner inputs on an 813 are not hardwired to a particular output. But I have no idea how complete this flexibility is... Suppose the 813 has a Sling Adapter AND a USB ATSC tuner connected. Suppose furthermore that the user of the Sling Adapter is watching a recorded program. Can 4 TVs still watch 4 different live programs, as long as one is OTA?
Ok.. so roll with it.. if you have a limit of 10 110 thin clients, then you have an 8103? yeah.. THATS great.. start over with 1960's technology names..
ok... a bit facetious there.. but seriously.. how else would you look at it? the box is a base 1 machine. *8* for doG knows what ... 1 for the maximum supported TV's directly connected ... and 3 tuners? or 3 as the number of outputs to handle that one tv.. you pick.. personally I think its 8 / 1 / 3 ... eyes fingers toes ... no wait that's the key to remembering the Adams Family Vault ... whatever....
series 8 ... 1 tv (supported & directly connected), and 3 tuners..
722k ... 7 series ... 2 TV's, and 2 tuners (base)
Unless you want to discard the OTA since technially the original 722 had two digital sat tuners, and an OTA tuner built in... and that makes 3 tuners! ....
what sayeth you? (I prod only in jest, please do not take "harshnessly")
I think it starts with an 8 because it's better than a 722, but it doesn't have sling built-in like the 922.
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Lets just hope they never come out with an "11" something
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Supposedly they will make it available to Vip dvrs ,but we don't know for sure. I'm hoping that they make an application for the google revue unit so we can stream like we do with Netflix.
I was at a blockbuster yesterday and saw that videogames are now part of there monthly movie service, that's a good move I think to add games from a business perpective I think it's good to think outside the box for other ways to deliver service, hope it works out!
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