sevencycles said:
Can I split the cale signal coming out of the cable box and feed the TV and Tivo DVR seperately? Not sure what cables to use either
Kinda lost, any help is appreciated
First, you don't need to connect the TV using the RF cable that comes from the cable wall plate. You want to use the highest quality video format supported by both the receiver and the TV and that is likely going to be component video.
You can split the cable from the wall with a 1 to 2 splitter and feed the cable box and tivo separately but that way you won't be able to record any channels that must be decoded by the cable box. You will have to go from the wall plate to the cable box 'rf in' and then from the cable box 'rf out' to the tivo. Now you have the cable signal going to both the cable box and the Tivo.
Now to get the signal to the TV:
- The back of the receiver has multiple component video inputs and one component video output.
- Component video cables from cable box to component video 1 on the receiver.
- Component video cables from Tivo to component video 2 on the receiver.
- Component video cables from the component video out on the receiver to the TV.
You then have to 'assign' the component video inputs on the receiver to one of the source selectors; eg., assign component video 1 input to Video1 and component video input 2 to Video2. Now you press Video1 to view the cable box and Video2 to view the Tivo.
