Mnay, many thanks. I thought she was blowing smoke but just had to check with my stable of experts. :-) This is why I love SatelliteGuys! Straight, knowledgeable talk to counter the BS spouted by salespeople.

AT&T has just brought U-verse to our neighborhood so I immediately got a sales call. Interesting service, but won't write anything down until I place my order. N.G. I just dumped DTV (no HD) for Dish (w/HD) four months ago for $$$ reasons. Dish is very nice but some of U-verse's features...

Many thanks cditty & KAB. I'd searched the forums but did not find your posts, cditty. Good to know it's not designed-in. I hadn't thought of using the Menu button, KAB -- too new to the Dish remote. Nice to have a work-around.

I'd been accessing OTA channels via an A/B switch, the local antenna on one leg, the Dish DVR on the other. Inconvenient but effective. If rain took out my Dish signal I could still see the local channels and find out how serious the rain was. To improve the convenience I bought an OTA...

Yup, that's what I did, with both remotes, but I really need to go back through it all verrry carefully. Since y'all say it should work I'll approach it with a more positive frame of mind this time. :-)

rich22, to the extent I understand "setting the remote addresses" I have done this. Both TV2 remotes are set to 2. Whichever remote I then use first works, controls TV2, but after that the other remote does nothing. I need to go back through the process again very carefully...

I'm a new Dish customer and have a large house with 3 TVs receiving the SD signal from a Vip722 HD DVR. I want to be able to leave a #2 remote by each TV to control receiver #2. I do *not* want to carry a single #2 remote with me at all times to control whichever TV I'm in front of. I...