bjorn773

bjorn773

Also, does anyone know if my old dish dvr remotes can be reprogrammed to work with the pal? They look identical other than one being the ir/uhf and one being ir only.

1inxs

bjorn773, Welcome to the DTVUSA Forum. The IR extenders work pretty good. The dish DVR remote will work for your pal. Good Luck!

bjorn773

Do you know how to reprogram the remote to control the pal? Is there a reset procedure or something?

DTVuser2009

You can use two TVs with it and use an IR extender but you will only be able to view one channel at a time on both TVs. if someone changes a channel it changes it on both TVs.

I wish they'd issue a box that has the UHF 1 and 2 remotes, so you can have independent viewing of two TVs but one box.

You shouldn't have to reprogram the Dish remotes. they work by default since it's Dish Network. uses the same software even.

1inxs

Have you tried pressing the Sat button on the remote and trying it?

bjorn773

No, I have not tried that. I will tonight. I have a Terk IR extender that should arrive tomorrow. I already have two tv's tied to it. I do wish it had 2 independent outputs like my dish dvr, but I think we can live with it. I could put in a switch to allow one tv to watch live tv via the antenna, so we can watch different shows. It's a work in progress, I just got the new dvr two days ago. So far, I'm very happy. If the remote extender works like I hope it will, I will call dish and cancel my satellite. It will be nice to get rid of that $45 a month.