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Posted by Biz on 01/09/06 17:17
To add to what I posted in the other NG, if you just rent the cable
companies DVR your headaches will go away...to watch one thing while
recording another, you need two functioning tuners. In this case, your
cable box is your primary tuner, the Sony *may* have a standard cable tuner,
and so may your tv, but you have to connect the cable line into them,
usually bypassing the cable box, hence the need for a splitter. This only
allows non-scrambled content to be tuned in...
"JC" <joaoalex@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> My set-up involves a Sony DVR HX715, a Sony Trinitron, and a digital
> cable box (not HD). I
>
> 1. The DVR is connected through its Line 1 Video/Audio output to the
> Cable Box.
> 2. The DVR is connected through its Line 3 Video/Audio output to the
> television, with the exception of the video jack. For this, I'm
> running an S-cable between the DVR and the TV.
>
> The DVR comes with a Set Box control, which allows one to control the
> cable box through the DVR's remote control. I got this to work.
>
> So when I move through the DVR and TV's input's, the outcome is
> basically the following ("WORKS" means the channel tuned through
> the box comes in):
>
>
> DVR TV
> Video 1 Video 3
> L2 Nothing WORKS
> L3 Nothing WORKS
> DV Nothing WORKS
> L1 WORKS WORKS
>
> What I can't figure out is how to separate the channels, i.e., to
> record one channel while watching another, which the guide says can be
> done. If I tune the Box through the DVR, and then change the channel
> through the box (so that the numbers are different), the DVR recognizes
> the number on the box and records that channel, overriding whatever I
> had chosen (through L3). Then, if I go through the inputs on the DVR,
> when it gets to L3, it changes the box's number to that displayed on
> the DVR, and the channels get coordinated.
>
> The bottom line is that I'd like to know how to "split" the
> tuning of the channels, so to speak.
>
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