Direct TV sattelite - runs how many TVs ?
Hi All We are wondering if we have Direct TV satellite on the RV's roof & into our 2014 Tiffin Open Road, will our standard Direct TV plan allow all of the three TVs in the RV to play the same & or d...
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IN my older days you needed a single dish with four heads on it to feed multiple TV channels to multiple TV sets.. Four heads would run four TV sets.
Then they came up with the MULTISWITCH technology. You could feed this with ONE SAT TV DISH signal and switch it at high speed to any number of TVs.
This is where I got off the technology upgrades.
They have digital ways today to be able to run multiple TVs from a single RG cable coming from a single Dish. Something called SWM or something like that.
The last time I was bringing along my DIRECTV with me on trips I brought two SAT RCVRS and one portable SAT DISH setup with two port heads. I ran two RG cables from the SAt DISH with one going to a SAT RCVR in the living room area and the other RG cable going to the bedroom area SAt RCVR. Then I ran video outs from these SAT RCVRs to the VIDEO inputs on the two TV sets.
Each TV set then could watch different TV channels. Using the VIDEO 1 inputs then the TV set could watch SAT TV, OTA TV or CABLE TV by just using the remote control unit.
Have no idea how the modern SAT TV hookup operate these days... I quit SAT TV and started watching NATL BROADCAST high def TV from the local towns using the BATWING OTA antenna. Don't bring the SAT TV stuff along with me anymore.
Roy Ken
Then they came up with the MULTISWITCH technology. You could feed this with ONE SAT TV DISH signal and switch it at high speed to any number of TVs.
This is where I got off the technology upgrades.
They have digital ways today to be able to run multiple TVs from a single RG cable coming from a single Dish. Something called SWM or something like that.
The last time I was bringing along my DIRECTV with me on trips I brought two SAT RCVRS and one portable SAT DISH setup with two port heads. I ran two RG cables from the SAt DISH with one going to a SAT RCVR in the living room area and the other RG cable going to the bedroom area SAt RCVR. Then I ran video outs from these SAT RCVRs to the VIDEO inputs on the two TV sets.
Each TV set then could watch different TV channels. Using the VIDEO 1 inputs then the TV set could watch SAT TV, OTA TV or CABLE TV by just using the remote control unit.
Have no idea how the modern SAT TV hookup operate these days... I quit SAT TV and started watching NATL BROADCAST high def TV from the local towns using the BATWING OTA antenna. Don't bring the SAT TV stuff along with me anymore.
Roy Ken
