Running 3 tv's with 2 remotes?

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Hello, i'm new to the forum and looking for some advice on setting up my tv's. Right now, I have a lcd tv in my basement hooked up to my bell receiver (not sure the model, it's the dual recorder, HD receiver, the silver one) and then a cable running upstairs to my normal tube tv in my bedroom. Boyfriend and I were out shopping and saw a good deal for a plasma, so we bought it for our upstairs living room. Now we want to connect the plasma with the receiver. So we ordered a 3-RCA video component splitter and 2 audio component splitter so that we can have hd quality tv on the plasma tv upstairs. Now we are wondering how we can make it so that we can use the UHF remote upstairs on the 2 tv's upstairs (bedroom and living room) and the other remote on the tv downstairs. Is this possible? We can't get another receiver because we are maxed out with 6 on our account. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions, that would be great! Thank you!
 
Your post doesn't make this clear, but I assume what you're planning to do is run two HD TVs (downstairs HD TV & new living room HD plasma) off of the "component out" jacks for tuner 1 of your HD-PVR (which is a 9200, by the way). I also assume you already know you'll have to run component video/audio cables from the basement to the living room to get HD on your new plasma.

In terms of a UHF remote controlling both tuner 2 (current situation) and tuner 1 (the "HD" tuner in a 9200), I think you can do this by changing the remote address so that it is the same for tuner 1 and tuner 2. However, I think this will also result in the channel on all three TVs (basement, bedroom TV, living room TV) changing at the same time :eek::eek:. Wouldn't work in MY house, but to each their own.

A better solution is to leave UHF remote 2 alone and "convert" remote 1 to UHF - see this thread:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=70967

You can then use remote 1 for your basement and living room TVs and remote 2 for your bedroom TV.
 
Thank you!! This is exactly what I am looking to do so that I can use the same remote on the upstairs & downstairs HDTV's and then the second remote on the bedroom tv. Will try it out when I get home today.
 
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