I have two cable boxes in my living room to enjoy the football season. my only problem is that all fios boxes have the saem remote settings.
Does any one know a way to get the two boxes working separately for under 100 bucks?
Yes, cut a piece of cardboard about 6" square and fold it in half. Use it to cover the display area of the STB you want to not control. Cost? Under 5 cents. Sorry, nothing better that I know of for under $100. I bet some other members here know of something however.
Out of curiosity do you have 2 tvs in the same room? I'm guessing based on your comment about enjoying football you do... but I'm just trying to figure out if I can have 2 boxes connected to the same tv as I'm not ready to buy a 2nd tv. Sorry I don't have any suggestions for the remote.
I really doubt that the original poster is monitoring this discussion any more, so I will answer your question. Yes you can have as many boxes as there are inputs on the TV. Each box can output in most of the input formats of any TV. Rf output is not available on some units. For example, my rec room TV has 2 HDMI, 1 component, and 3 composite video inputs. I could have 6 boxes attached, at least. One more, if I had a cable box with an RF output.
Now my question: Why would you do that?
I once used two DVRs on one TV because I wanted to record more than 2 channels at once and have them available to that TV. If all you want is a way to swap channels quickly, buy a remote with programmable macro buttons and program them to the channels you will be watching. you can buy such a remote for under $20. Or if you only need two channels, just use the Back button with one STB to toggle back and forth.
Start a new topic or ask questions in the open forum.
