Yep, a cable splitter, they can be bought for a few bucks, pretty cheaply. So then you'd have:
Cable from wall -> splitter and splitter -> Myth box splitter -> cable box When googling on this subject, I learned that splitting a signal does cut the strength of it (by half, if you split it in two). This probably isn't a big deal in one room, but would be an issue if you're wiring a house. And you'd connect both the frontend and cable box into the TV... hopefully you have multiple inputs, so hit the "input" button on your TV remote to switch. A single-tuner PVR is a lot like an old fashioned VCR. It just sits there and does its thing, and you switch to it when you want to use it. One nice extra thing you can do is watch an old show you recorded previously while recording something two. If you get two tuners working in the Mythbox,then suddenly you can record two shows at once, and the odds that you'll miss anything important decrease a bunch. --- Benoit Beauchamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a general question about trying to do a couple things and > would like some feedback on those. I have comcast cable with a topbox > > from Scientific Atlanta 8610X558. I have basic analog cable. I got > mythtv to work with different frontend so thats all figure out. The > cable is not yet plugged to the computer because i dont have an > irblaster and would rather watch cable on the tv. My question is > this... > > I want to be able to watch live TV while something is recording on > the computer. I want to be able to switch channel on the tv while the > > computer is still recording. Then at some point I want to watch the > recorded shows on the TV... > > Im thinking it needs a splitter or something. I dont have irblaster > installed yet. Can someone shed some light on this, howto. > > thanks> _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
