favek
02-18-10, 10:18 AM
Hello all. I was referred from AVS to come here. Below is basically a cut and paste of my post over on AVS, thanks for reading!
Hello. I recently aquired a like new 46" Regza in a trade deal with a person. So far I love the TV. It hooks up nicely to my PC (via HDMI).
Before this deal I signed up for DISH because I was able to get a better deal on a monthly rate vs. DirectTV. So I sign up for two years and get a dual tuner dish box that can broadcast to 1 HD tv and one SD tv.
So I get the new TV and I call up DISH and they tell me its going to cost me $200 bucks for a HD / recordable single tuner box. So I am like WTF and please give me a break! Dish won't budge.
So I go online on eBay and purchase a 100ft. hdmi cord, with an amp on one end. My thinking is to split the signal (eventually) and run the cord through the walls and underneath the house to where the 46" sits, in my home office. The dish box is hooked up in the living room to a 50" plasma.
The cord arrives today and I test it by running the cord down the hall and into the office and hook it into the TV. Literally after 45 seconds the signal appears and it looks great...but there is no sound. I hook it up to the Xbox 360 (also in the living room) and it to has a slight delay but has sound and looks fantastic.
The whole reason I was doing all of this is so I can watch DVR and live HD tv from my Dish box but without sound I am not sure what I can do to fix this. Do I need to buy another extender?
Hello. I recently aquired a like new 46" Regza in a trade deal with a person. So far I love the TV. It hooks up nicely to my PC (via HDMI).
Before this deal I signed up for DISH because I was able to get a better deal on a monthly rate vs. DirectTV. So I sign up for two years and get a dual tuner dish box that can broadcast to 1 HD tv and one SD tv.
So I get the new TV and I call up DISH and they tell me its going to cost me $200 bucks for a HD / recordable single tuner box. So I am like WTF and please give me a break! Dish won't budge.
So I go online on eBay and purchase a 100ft. hdmi cord, with an amp on one end. My thinking is to split the signal (eventually) and run the cord through the walls and underneath the house to where the 46" sits, in my home office. The dish box is hooked up in the living room to a 50" plasma.
The cord arrives today and I test it by running the cord down the hall and into the office and hook it into the TV. Literally after 45 seconds the signal appears and it looks great...but there is no sound. I hook it up to the Xbox 360 (also in the living room) and it to has a slight delay but has sound and looks fantastic.
The whole reason I was doing all of this is so I can watch DVR and live HD tv from my Dish box but without sound I am not sure what I can do to fix this. Do I need to buy another extender?