I have a very good understanding of how sat signals work, we sell directv products, and polarization, transponder mapping, signal splitting, etc are things I have helped many people in this forum understand. However I was at a walkthrough yesterday where some dish net installers were having trouble with an install. They had a 921 HD DVR (that was set to 4x3 480p on an HD 16:9 LCD but that is a tipoff to their ability), they were using a standard 950-2150 sat signal splitter to feed the two tuners with a single feed from the multiplexer. I know this can't be done with Directv stuff but the client said that the installers told him if this splitter was on a particular output of the mulitplexer (any of the 1-4) that it would work and feed both inputs. Is this true? Also he had only one dish (and only two of the four mulitplexer inputs were used), doesn't Dish Network use two dishes for HD stuff?

Thanks in advance.

I've never seen this work. Dish does have a new new switch out that supports band stacking. It allows you to feed their dual tuner receivers with a single coax from the switch. However it is a new switch. If I remember it is model # DP44. Sells for around $150 and then you have to buy the dish signal splitters to go at the receiver. I don't remember the model # but they are another $10 to $15 each.

Dish Network moved all of their HD programming from the 62.5 sat over to the 110 sat so that it can now be done with a singal DISH 500.

Robbie S

It is the DP Plus 44 switch that AVX is talking about. You can not just use a splitter at the reciever. You have to use the dish pro plus seperator which seperates by frequency. The dish recievers software sees the dp plus switch and reconfigures the recievers inputs to be used as a high frequency input and a low frequency input instead of just two identical seperate inputs.

thanks guys, I'll let him know

That is pretty cool that they have stacking inside the multiplexer, and pretty smart to have the two inputs be constant on the different voltages/polarizations

Good info to know!

I just ran across a 811 hidef receiver. I have access to this unit for a short time and I was going to learn the codes into some of my software. Is this similar to the PVR unit, which has split IR and RF? There is an antenna on the back of the 811. I am also going to DL the manual too for reference. Just looking for a short answer if you know.

GotGame - Yes it is the same remote as the 921 PVR.

Okay.



Oops (see my previous comment).

This CAN be done with DirecTV equipment. Any more I don't really want to publicize in a forum open to the public, even though it is named "Custom Installers' Lounge."