PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
Riverside, WA
 ·CableOne
| Dish Network already does this
Dish network has been doing this since before I started installing them in 2004. The have one DVR with basically two receivers built into it (two tuners, two separate outputs for TVs with a separate GUI for each one), so each TV can be operated separately like separate receivers, but both TVs SHARE the one hard drive and it's contents.
So why not just build on this concept; make one with 4 or 5 tuners and TV outputs. ONE piece of hardware (cheaper per house cost), runs all TVs in the house (makes customers happy).
The ONLY downfall to this system currently is that it will only run ONE HDTV; the one HDTV connects directly to the box, where all the other "remote" TVs connect via rf-modulated coax. However, if we can transmit SD A/V via one of these, then there is no reason we can't use the same for HD A/V.
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