This is a bit misleading. With my cable company (Comcast in the Southern California area) you can't receive any channels without one of their settop boxes. So two channel recording without cablecard is pretty pointless unless you want to get two cable boxes. Do they have any way to send separate IR signals? In theory you could have two cable boxes and could shield the fronts so that only IR from the IR blaster could get to them. But if the IR blaster sends out the same signal to both boxes, it wouldn't work.
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This is a bit misleading. With my cable company (Comcast in the Southern California area) you can't receive any channels without one of their settop boxes. So two channel recording without cablecard is pretty pointless unless you want to get two cable boxes. Do they have any way to send separate IR signals? In theory you could have two cable boxes and could shield the fronts so that only IR from the IR blaster could get to them. But if the IR blaster sends out the same signal to both boxes, it wouldn't work.