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so I am in a vacation rental until November. It has one TV with one cable box. Is there a way to tape one show on my VCR and watch another? I could do this at home because the TV was cable ready so I didn't have a cable box and everything went into the TV. Another option I guess would be to tape one thing using the cable box and watch another using an antenna, but I didn't even know if an antenna would work down here.
I called Choice, and they said that there was no way to tape one show and watch another with the cable box. They said that I would have to get another cable box installed for $89. Since I'm only in my rental for another 6 weeks, I didn't think this made a lot of sense.
Any ideas? The fall TV season is starting soon, and I have serious entertainment needs. 🙂
Posted : September 22, 2008 4:29 pm
Not my realm of expertise, by any means, but maybe you could pick up a cheap used cable ready TV, and resell it when you get ready to leave, or get any 2nd TV and put a splitter on the cable, so you can watch one and tape one. Would that work?
Posted : September 22, 2008 4:36 pm
No way to do this with Choice because you need their specific (arachaic) box to receive their signal. Therefore you would need 2 boxes to have 2 shows on at the same time (one for the VCR, one for your simultaneous viewing).
You could get a very basic Innovative hook up that doesn't need a box (the most basic plan) and plug that straight into a your VCR or cable ready TV. You will only get about a dozen channels though, but that includes ABC,CBS,NBC, FOX and CW if that is what you are interested in.
If you were here long term I'd say do what I did and get DISH...its the only way to get real high end TV product with DVR etc. on the island.
Sean
Posted : September 22, 2008 6:02 pm
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I am here long-term - just in the vacation rental until November so I guess I will tough it out until then. After that, I guess DISH is the way to go! Thanks for the responses.
Posted : September 22, 2008 6:22 pm