HD on dual tuner receiver

Direct TV uses different receivers with different capabilities. Replacing your 622 with a Hopper and Joey on Dish would also give you HD on both TV's, plus independent access to the Hopper's three tuners and DVR recordings.

To answer the OP's question more directly, DirecTV's receivers are either HD or SD and do not "change" the way you've noticed that the 622's does. The HR44 Genie has 5 independent tuners all of which are capable of displaying HD.

Changing the 622 to single tuner negates the dual tuners so you have only one tuner available for use. If you want HD you MUST use the HDMI (or component) connection. If you are sending a signal to a 2nd TV via coax it will be in SD no matter how you have the receiver setup. Dish is the only one that makes a dual tuner box. With DirecTV you must have 2 separate receivers on 2 separate TV's to watch 2 separate channels. That makes the HDMI HD connection simple.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
Changing the 622 to single tuner negates the dual tuners so you have only one tuner available for use. If you want HD you MUST use the HDMI (or component) connection. If you are sending a signal to a 2nd TV via coax it will be in SD no matter how you have the receiver setup. Dish is the only one that makes a dual tuner box. With DirecTV you must have 2 separate receivers on 2 separate TV's to watch 2 separate channels. That makes the HDMI HD connection simple.

We had Dish at our S&B and I think your first sentence should be rewritten to be more precise. I suggest that the following is a bit clearer:

--The 622 can be EITHER connected to two TVs (dual mode) or to one TV (single mode)

--If you use dual mode one of the TVs will be able to get HD via HDMI; the other TV will get SD by coax or RCA video feed. If you wish to watch one channel and record another, one of the TVs will lose its ability to select a different channel during the recording.

--If you use single mode the receiver will act exactly like the DirecTV receivers do; both tuners will be available to one TV in HD. You will be able to record one and watch another.

My experience was that many Dish installers are uniformed with respect to single mode installation since Dish stresses the use of a single receiver box to serve two TVs. In fact my installer actually connected my TV in a "gerry rigged" single mode in which he had it set up for dual mode but had both and HD an SD feed going to just one TV. It took me a few minutes of going through the user guide to realize this was stupid. Just push a button and go into single mode.

DirecTV DVRs always act as if they are Dish DVRs operating in single mode.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you want HD you MUST use the HDMI (or component) connection. If you are sending a signal to a 2nd TV via coax it will be in SD NO MATTER how you have the receiver setup.

Not to argue with docj, but I believe the above statement to be correct.

bob213 wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
If you want HD you MUST use the HDMI (or component) connection. If you are sending a signal to a 2nd TV via coax it will be in SD NO MATTER how you have the receiver setup.

Not to argue with docj, but I believe the above statement to be correct.

I never disputed this point; I was trying to explain the difference between single and dual mode and to correct Bill's statement that "single mode negates the two tuners". It doesn't negate the two tuners, it just devotes both of them to serving a single TV.

I still find my post to be as accurate as any reader needs. If only one tuner is available it makes no difference if it uses tuner 1 or tuner 1 and then tuner 2 as either way only one tuner can be used at any time.

Bill.Satellite wrote:
I still find my post to be as accurate as any reader needs. If only one tuner is available it makes no difference if it uses tuner 1 or tuner 1 and then tuner 2 as either way only one tuner can be used at any time.

Both tuners can be used at the same time if the customer chooses to watch one program while recording another. That's the way many people choose to use a DVR and that's the way all DirecTV DVRs have been designed. That's what Dish calls using the DVR in "single mode". If you didn't know this I hope that I have explained it simply enough for you to understand.

If the two tuners are used to support separate TVs then using one of them to record a program means that one of the TVs will not have the ability to watch a different program during the duration of the recording. This is what is called dual mode and, personally, I found it useless because of this and because one of the TVs was stuck having only SD programming.

If one program in coming from one satellite and the 2nd program is coming from another this still a moot point. One tuner works, one tuner will not. There is no priority tuner so no way to know which tuner has control over what (watching or recording) and only the primary tuner can actually control the antenna pointing. At best it becomes a cr$pshoot and at worst you get the expected result which is either not being able to watch the selected channel or not having the anticipated program record.
This is all created by the dome and eliminated by the installation of an antenna such as the Trav'ler.

docj wrote:
I never disputed this point; I was trying to explain the difference between single and dual mode and to correct Bill's statement that "single mode negates the two tuners". It doesn't negate the two tuners, it just devotes both of them to serving a single TV.

Sorry, I misread your statement about single mode and both tuners to a single tv in HD. My brain saw "both" and "HD" and put them together. I'll butt out now............