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Dual Source?
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Posted by: doom1701

I should know the answer to this, but I don't (yet). Right now I've got digital cable. Got it as an interim solution (and to save installation costs). I'm planning on switching back to a dish in the near future.

The digital cable receiver combines both the analog (<channel 30, I think) and digital signals, so I don't have to worry about multiple sources.

With the dish, I plan to keep basic cable (for locals). So, I'll have two sources--analog cable and dish receiver. Is my SA Tivo capable of handling both sources transparently? Will it know to pull ABC off of my analog cable for my Whose Line season pass, while getting the video feed over RCA jacks or SVideo from my receiver for my Junkyard Wars season pass? Or will I be stuck picking which source I record the most stuff from (probably dish), and setting the Tivo up for that?

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Posted by: tj

It will work fine. Just redo Guided Setup when you are ready.

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Posted by: doom1701

Sweet! This thing just paid for itself again. What will the Live TV Guide (I use it every once in a while) look like with this? Since dish channels usually start high (100+, I think), will it just list my analog cable lineup and dish lineup by order of channel #?

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Life is short, so you might as well go out with a good caffiene buzz.

Phillips SA 14hr, upgraded with a measly 60GB Maxtor

Posted by: Otto

doom: Yup.

You hook the cable into the RF input, and the satellite receiver into the RCA or SVid inputs. Then you hookup the IR blaster or the serial connection for the satellite feed, and redo GS.

The stations will be in numerical order. The only problem lies if you have two stations with the same call letters, the Tivo will always try to record from the lowest numbered one (i.e. the cable feed). So to fix that you disable these duped ones in chans you receive and it records from the sat. feed. Which feed you're looking at is mostly transparent to you.

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Posted by: Opusnbill7

I know this is somewhat off-topic, but somewhat in-topic also. Has anyone figured out a way for the TiVo to handle two separate cable connections? I would like to be able to have the TiVo record from the RF unit (so I can watch other channels using the digital box) on most of the recordings, but I'd also like the option to have it know about the digital box and record from it's channels also.

As of present, I just use the "fake satellite" option with the svideo in, and this works ok using manual recording. Hopefully there's something more elegant out there, though, but I dont' really want to go through guided setup AGAIN just to check. Any thoughts?