Like millions of folks, I'm trying to cost-reduce with regard to my monthly expenses for Comcast Cable and Direct TV. I decided to scale back my comcast package to basic cable (22 channels) which is only $5.90 a month. So I've got Direct TV and I'll keep that as is. The question is whether it makes sense to connect the basic cable line to the D*TV box and then feed one cable to the TV... or feed both sources separately? That's for our bedroom, and we use the TV as an alarm clock so I don't know whether we can pre-select a D*TV channel or one of the cable channels. Comcast is coming next week to do the "downgrade".

In our family room, my Mits DLP has a cable card and I won't know until next week whether they re-program the cable card or remove it entirely.

So I guess I'm curious about anyone having any experience with routing a cable signal through a D*TV receiver. TIA!

Like millions of folks, I'm trying to cost-reduce with regard to my monthly expenses for Comcast Cable and Direct TV. I decided to scale back my comcast package to basic cable (22 channels) which is only $5.90 a month. So I've got Direct TV and I'll keep that as is. The question is whether it makes sense to connect the basic cable line to the D*TV box and then feed one cable to the TV... or feed both sources separately? That's for our bedroom, and we use the TV as an alarm clock so I don't know whether we can pre-select a D*TV channel or one of the cable channels. Comcast is coming next week to do the "downgrade".

In our family room, my Mits DLP has a cable card and I won't know until next week whether they re-program the cable card or remove it entirely.

So I guess I'm curious about anyone having any experience with routing a cable signal through a D*TV receiver. TIA!

So what happened? I've never heard of routing a Comcast signal through a D* box, I don't think it can be done. I think you'll just plug in your basic Comcast signal directly into the TV.

Should work fine if it's a standard receiver. When you turn the receiver off, the antenna input is then just passed through to the rf out. If it's an HD receiver, then it can't happen.

Connect the *D box via a component/HDMI or audio/video input and connect the basic cable to the RF input.