According to link (http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/our_products/dvr_receivers/index.shtml)
this hd dvr tuner has output for two tv's, one hd, and one standard. My question is how does the standard television change channels and navigate without a box. Or do both televisions have to see the same channel?

dja2k

I have the E* SD 322 dual-tuner, and I believe it works the same way:

I've got 2 cables coming in to the receiver in the main room (I'm not sure if the reason I have 2 is because of the fact that I've got 2 dishes or not - so you'll either have one or two). Then, one comes back out from the unit back into the wall plate. Then the line leads (under my house) to a wall plate in the second TV room, which goes into that TV. The 2nd TV is set to channel 60 (or something like that - I think they give you two choices of channels), and the remote in the 2nd room can work through walls or floors by RF, and can change the channels that way from the main satellite tuner in the main room. There's actually a little antenna on the tuner that you attach to the rear of it.

Comprendo?

The only catch (at least with my tuner model), is that the coax to the 2nd TV will only output mono, but there is also stereo RCA outputs to the 2nd TV on the tuner - but you'll need an awfully long patch cable to use it. They can be found, though, if you ask around here. If you want to have it hooked up that way, I would make sure to have it before the installer starts work, because they generally only run the coax with basic installation. I think someone here once said that you can run the coax into a VCR, then you can run stereo composite cables to the TV, but I've never tried this myself, so I'm not even 100 percent sure that it will come out in actual stereo.