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Action and Input are mentioned in 4 other spots in the manual - that was the only spot where they mentioned guide and up. Thanks again for the help!

SWEET! I found the Action & Input in the manual but I lost the remote a while back - I've been using a universal one. The tip on the receiver worked - Guide and Up did it :) . Thank you !

I have a HIRD-E86 setup for OTA HD. I am taking the signal via Composite to my SD tv, but accidentally selected 480i resolution. Now I can't get anything to display on the screen :eek: . I suspect that since my TV is a non-hd tv, that the TV just won't display anything when set to 480i. I can't...

Yeh, I think I'm going to recommend that he pursue the PVR idea, and since I know he has an old computer laying around, we can do the whole thing for around $300-$400. I'm doing it now with 2 client computers and 2 MediaMVPs (a small linux client at each TV) and it works great. Since he's got...

Okay, so I'm thinking that you two are right. This is the way to go. So I looked around and they DO have s-video/composite splitters. Of course they're around $199 a pop also. So he'd need 4 4-channel modulators (best price I found was $299), 4 s-video splitters and 4 smart remotes (I don't...

Yeh, I'd come across composite/svideo --> coax ones, but in this case, he'd have to split the output of each receiver 4 ways, (which I don't think you can do with svideo/composite, maybe you can, I dunno). In his case, we'd have to have 4 units that take 4 inputs with one coax output for each...

A friend of mine asked me about this and I think it makes for an interesting challenge. He has 4 Dish Network Receiver/DVRs, and 4 TV's (all in different rooms). He wants to put all of the receivers in one location (closet) and use existing installed cable/ethernet (one drop of each to each...

haha, I was in the Navy and we had a guy who's last name was Sargent....Petty Officer Sargent. :) We always called him "Sarge" - which was funny when we were out in the bars, the Army & Marine guys were always trying to figure out why the "Navy guys" were hanging out with a Sargeant.

I put the 622 in the bedroom as TV1 via s-video and have coax going to the living room TV as TV2.

I just signed up for dish last month via the dish network web site. I got the same deal - a dish 322 ($5/month) AND a dish 622 ($5/month) (I have 4 TVs - these are dual tuner units). Locals were $5/month extra. They had the $100 off ($10/month) via mail in rebate. I passed on the movie...

They'll charge me $5/month if I have my own receiver?!?!? I'm already paying for the service, why would I have to pay extra for equipment that I own? Anyway, thanks for the info. It sounds a little more complicated (and expensive) than I wanted.

I have a dish 322 that I've integrated into my PVR (a PC running software to record tv). I have 3 tuners in my PVR: one to the dish 322 TV1, one to the dish 322 TV2, one to a Hughes HIRD-E86 (for OTA HD). The Hughes setup fine and I'll drop it from any further discussion here. The problem I'm...

Me either, I was hoping someone had invented one ;)

I was wondering if anyone had found a UHF Blaster or something similar to change channels on TV2 via a PC. I have a dish 322 that is feeding 2 different capture cards in my home grown PVR. I can change the channels just fine on TV1 with an IR Blaster, but have to set timers on TV2. This was...

I ended up getting another unit from the guy and it works great! Thanks for all of your help!