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"I used my old backfeed line to extend my uhf antenna as well."

Great idea, I'm doing that this weekend

Or you could do what I just did and spend ~$13 extra each month and get a free vip 622 and put it in your bedroom. It's free through dish it up promotion. Then when the 922 is released, I pay the upgrade fee and get rid of the 622 and move the 722 to the bedroom. Now I have - 2HD and 2SD channels. The only downside is that I have to record duplicate programs for each dvr and lose my spot when I start a show in the living room and move to the bedroom.

You can get a 211 for the bedroom; if you still wanna watch what you've got recorded on your 722, then you can either go long-ass component or HDMI (expensive), or if you're ok with watching playback in SD, you can set up the TV1 on the 722 to go out the TV2 coax, diplex it onto the satellite line, then diplex it back onto the line going to the 211.


More complicated, and only SD, but far far cheaper.

I have had this same issue for a while now. HD tv in the living room and bedroom and want HD on my second TV. I keep waiting for a good solution from dish (can anyone say - LET US SHARE RECORDINGS BETWEEN RECEIVERS") but they seem to think a built in Slingbox and a fancy touch remote is what their customers are waiting for. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the slingbox built in, but the truth is that you can buy a slingbox today and use it with Dish (although only on tuner one without buying extra hardware). I want even go into the micky mouse remote issue. If I told my wife we were getting rid of the harmony remote she would have one quick answer....NO.
At some point dish is going to have to wake up and realize many people now have multiple HD TV's in their house. I considered getting another 622 reciever for my bedroom HD TV, but then, as noted above, you have to set timers on both recievers. Other companies have sharing solutions, but Dish seems to prefer to work on other things. Why I cannot buy another HD reciever with or without a dvr and network it to my existing 622 to share recordings is way beyond me. I think Dish has been overrun with marketing people who have no clue what customers want.

Here's what I ended up doing.

I ran the 722 thru my onkyo receiver .
TV1 is HDMI pass through on tv1(monitor 1 on the receiver)

TV2 is connected with the component cable pass through on the receiver connected to the TV1 component connections on the 722 .
I also hooked up the bedroom TV with a standard cable directly from the 722, but its just SD.
Nice thing about the receiver is that I can now watch any of the components of the main entertainment system in the bedroom with just a click of the remote. I can even watch streaming videos from this PC on it.
The bad part is that I am the only one who knows how to use the remotes in the bedroom. Its way to complicated for anyone else in the house and if the power goes out and the receiver looses all of it's programmed settings? It's going to take me hours to reset it all.

But at least I got multiple HD choices now in the bedroom. Everything thats available in the living room can be sent to the bedroom.