Harvey S
08-18-2007, 02:11 PM
I am a long time TW Columbus customer who is getting fed up with being fed up with TW, so I am considering the switch.
My present wiring harness is based on a single TW feed that comes into my basement, gets amplified, then goes through a passive split to feed coax cable runs that were installed in the walls when the house was built a few years ago and that run to the 5 or 6 locations that I might want a TV (technically a 'star' architeture). Presently we have three cable boxs (1 sd, 2 SA8300 HD DVR) and another two places where we use a cable ready TV and just see basic cable. That's a total of 5 sets and more can be easily added.
First question is if I switch to Sat will I be able to feed the satellitte signal into the house wiring harness or would I have to run new wiring ?
Second, the cable signal all comes in on a single wire and the TV tuners sort out the programming. Since I am reading about satellite systems with '5 LNBs' each with its own wire into the house, I guess the sat system works differently than cable. Is each of the 5 wires into the house unshareable (only capable of feeding one tuner)?
So the number of LNB's determines how many tuners can be fed ? If so then a 5 LNB system would provide 2 signal streams each to dual tuner DVRs and one to a single tuner box, right ? That would mean a max of 3 displays, right? If not what does it determine ? If I have two dual tuner DVRs how many additional single tuner setups can I have ?
Third, If I get the current HD DVR from DirectTV does it have dual tuners that permit recording two programs (or watch one and record another) ? My SA 8300 permits recording two programs while watching a previously recorded one. How bout that DirectTV ?
Fourth, same question about the current HD DVR from Dish.
My present wiring harness is based on a single TW feed that comes into my basement, gets amplified, then goes through a passive split to feed coax cable runs that were installed in the walls when the house was built a few years ago and that run to the 5 or 6 locations that I might want a TV (technically a 'star' architeture). Presently we have three cable boxs (1 sd, 2 SA8300 HD DVR) and another two places where we use a cable ready TV and just see basic cable. That's a total of 5 sets and more can be easily added.
First question is if I switch to Sat will I be able to feed the satellitte signal into the house wiring harness or would I have to run new wiring ?
Second, the cable signal all comes in on a single wire and the TV tuners sort out the programming. Since I am reading about satellite systems with '5 LNBs' each with its own wire into the house, I guess the sat system works differently than cable. Is each of the 5 wires into the house unshareable (only capable of feeding one tuner)?
So the number of LNB's determines how many tuners can be fed ? If so then a 5 LNB system would provide 2 signal streams each to dual tuner DVRs and one to a single tuner box, right ? That would mean a max of 3 displays, right? If not what does it determine ? If I have two dual tuner DVRs how many additional single tuner setups can I have ?
Third, If I get the current HD DVR from DirectTV does it have dual tuners that permit recording two programs (or watch one and record another) ? My SA 8300 permits recording two programs while watching a previously recorded one. How bout that DirectTV ?
Fourth, same question about the current HD DVR from Dish.