Once upon a time Steven Hawkins shaped the electrons to say... > Interesting... The ebay auction I won is a "Dual Head IR Blaster" > and "Dual heads allow you to control multiple peices of equipment > with one IR output" Unfortunatly what you say makes sense, but if
Well, technically dual-heads allows you to send IR to two devices - but only if the thing doing the controlling can do that. And the same IR comes out of both emitters. The Sony model TiVos - the SVR-2000 and 3000 - did this to a limited degree. They could control a cable box or satellite receiver, like a normal TiVo, but they could also control certain models of Sony VCR. So when you used the 'Save to VCR' functionality they could automatically start the VCR recording and stop it when the playback was complete. It was just a little unique feature Sony added. They used the standard TiVo twin-head IR cable, you just pointed one at the cable box and one at the VCR. The Slingbox Pro is similar. With the HD Connect cable you can connect up to 4 devices to the Slingbox Pro, and it comes with a 4-headed IR cable. But each of the 4 emitters transmits the same output - so you can only control devices that don't use the same codes. In other words, you couldn't control two cable boxes with one Slingbox Pro - they don't give you a way to change the IR codes. But you can control multiple TiVos, since TiVo has 10 remote addresses available in each box. > it could in fact control both boxes, couldn't one box go through > the a/v ports and the other in the RF(?) port that the cable is > currently coming in? You know, I'm not sure if the S2DT accepts cable box input over RF - I no longer have one here to check. But I know that it can't control multiple cable boxes. That's why the documentation says it can record two analog channels or one analog and one digital channel. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.TiVoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
