DIRECTV for both televisions

[gojodo]

Can someone tell me if I need two leads from my directv dish to two separate receivers if I want to be able to have a remote control operate in both living room and bed rooms?

[Parrothead]

Yes you need two receivers, and a dish with dual thingys. We have the dual dish and run a cable through the window in the bedroom. Someday we will install a regular hookup in the bedroom. Right now (and we do this a lot of times) we only have the living room hooked to Direct and left the bedroom on antenna so we can have local news and weather.
Happy trails...........................

[gojodo]

Thanks for your help. I did finally decided to give up on having the ability to watch TV on different channels, so my set up now includes the single LNB Dish for DirecTV, a single receiver box that also is looped to send the signal on to the bedroom TV, but of course I have to watch the same thing in the bedroom as in the living room. Also,I got the little triangle RF Signal repeater from Radio Shack so I could use the remote to turn off the TV from the Bedroom. That part works great.

[bncinwv]

Gojodo,
You can buy a dual LNB upgrade for around $25.00 that will enable another cable run to the bedroom TV. We use a flat cable through the bedroom window to the recevier in the bedroom.
Bingo

[gojodo]

Thanks, that does make sense. I will revisit Radio Shack. John