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Old 12-02-10, 10:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi, I am looking to upgrade my sat receiver and I have a couple of naive questions related to the twin tuner functionality that I cannot easily find answers to:

- is it possible to watch two different channels on two different TVs? Or twin only works for watching 1 and recording another?..

- to use twin tuner functionality one shall use 2LNB instead of 1LNB. I don't understand this difference... Does this mean that each of my LNBs has to have two cables plugged in to it? Or is it more a question of a Diseq box?

many thanks for your patient answers!
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You can only watch on one TV, and you will use a twin out put LNB with two cables one to each tuner
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Default Re: Twin tuner question

You can also of course (may be model dependent) connect each of the two tuner inputs to different satellite dishes, i.e to pick up from two different satellites.

Basicically, you can think of a twin tuner satellite receiver as two satellite receivers combined, but you can only watch one at a time.
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Some can even record 4 channels @ the same time on same tp,my twin eycos will do this.
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