Hi

I have ended with two Homechoice set top boxes both of which work, I asked the engineer if it was possible to have both connected and he said no. Surely there must be a way...

My question is, how do I set up HC for two TV's in different parts of the house so that I can watch different programmes on each TV at the same time?

I have found some info that suggests using a splitter connected to the STB and then co-ax cabling to each TV and the splitter. This would work but I would have to watch the channel on each TV. I tried using an RJ45 socket doubler but this freezes one of the pictures and I loose the other, although the internet continues to work.

Any help and/or advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Last edited by Ben_London : 20-11-2004 at 08:59

It probably is impossible right now, but it is suspected that the future solution, when bandwidth becomes available, is that the second STB will plug into the first one.

I'd also take into consideration that the set top boxes are the property of Homechoice and if you have two of them then one is not meant to be there.

I'd have a word with Homechoice to get the box picked up because it's more or less worthless until they launch their MPEG4 service and enable the Net socket for linking boxes.

I spoke to HC about this, and it isn't possible at the moment.

They also said they'd not heard any plans to do it, but given that it's possible with Sky they thought it would follow - eventually...

shame!

Thanks mattWP, it's a shame because there are a lot of people who have more than one TV, this whole area really does seem to have been overlooked by suppliers.

Oh well, I'll have try and rig something else up.

Possible in the same way as Sky. A second feed! In this case, a second phone line installed, a second line rental.... a second subscription. So not economical or what you wanted.