On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:30:55 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


That seems to be the going rate around here for all those services.

I pay $73 a month for expanded basic cable TV, a HD DVR box, two small
HD cable boxes and Internet service. No phone service and no extra cost
channels. Four TV's but one is set up like the following:

My little "office" is on the other side of a wall from the living room
where the 65" TV and the large HD/DVR cable box is located. I have a
small, 23" HD TV on my desk beside my computer monitor. Rather than rent
another small HD cable box from Comcast, I bought a HDMI switch box for
cheap bucks and ran a HDMI cable through the wall from the living room
to the office room. When I want to watch the TV in the office, I just
switch the HDMI switch box to the "B" position and it sends the signal
from the cable box to the little TV in the office. If I want to watch
the big TV, I just put the switch in the "A" position.

Then, I added a remote control thing to change the channels from the
office. It has a LED that mounts near the sensor on the cable box and a
receiver in the office room that you point the cable box remote control
at. It duplicates the IR signal from the "clicker" on the LED mounted
near the sensor on the cable box in the living room. Works great.

It's funny that with three smaller HD TVs, I rarely watch the big one
anymore. It's great for football games and baseball but I usually end
up watching them on the small ones also.

Dish receivers have an RF out that you can distribute around the house
on coax for the "B" tuner and control it with RF remotes. The "A"
tuner is also on that coax on a different channel. I also have a Tivo
that goes out on a HDMI splitter to the bedroom and the living room.
I never really watch TV out in the pool area but I have 2 PC connected
TVs out there that pretty much just play music.
I put a monitor in our Bud Light sign and it runs from the lap top,
pretty much just showing a slide show of whatever we choose.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/New%20tiki%20screen.jpg
I can stream to that too if I want.