How do Dual-Tuner Receivers feed the 2nd TV?
Seems like standard practice is to use the existing in-house cable TV distribution network. Dish’s receivers have an output for the 2nd TV called “agile modulated output”. What this means is that you can choose the channel frequency the TV output goes out on over coaxial cable. Push this over the existing cable TV cable back down to where you have your main cable TV splitter, plug the output from that piece of coax where you used to connect the ‘drop’ from the cable TV co, and then any TV in the house connected to the cable TV network can tune the channel you chose – say channel 21 – and receive the output from the 2nd tuner on the digital receiver box. The remote that works with the 2nd tuner operates via radio frequency (RF – 200 foot range) rather than infra-red (IR – line-of-sight only) as the first tuner remote control uses. Eventually you may even learn that you no longer need to aim the remote at the TV for digital satellite functions – what it is controlling is the receiver box
