[JINXR]

I currently have a Dish 522 SD DVR that I have setup to run my living room TV with one output and the other output goes to a 4 way splitter in my attic to run two other TVs throughout the house off of the second output.

This setup works perfectly for what I need, so I'm trying to figure out how I can do something similar with a DirecTV HD DVR that I'm getting installed in 2 days.

I'll be getting one HD DVR for the living room and one standard receiver for the master bedroom. We have one more TV in a spare bedroom, but it rarely gets used so I'm not too worried about it right now.

The CSR told me I could run and HDMI to my HDTV in my living room and use the simulcast SD output to use the coax I have going back up to the splitter in the attic to take to my other TVs. But I'm not sure how I can do that without running a new line to my master bedroom since my current coax will be used up by the satellite signal to standard receiver.

Is there some junction box I could get that will allow both signals to come through one coax?

 

[RAD]

None of the D* HD receivers have coax/NTSC outputs on them. But they do have composit/component/HDMI outputs and they are all active at the same time. What you could do is pick up a cheap RF modulator, connect the composit video out from the HR2X to that then run the coax from that to the spare bedroom. This will allow the one HR2X to output to both TV's, but both TV's would be watching the same program, no option like on Dish for an independent TV2 output. You might also want to order a 2nd RF remote control for the spare bedroom so you wouldn't need to share the single remote.

 

[NYCEGUY01]

http://www.weaknees.com/rf-remote-details.php has a great rf remote for dtv

 

[carl6]

I currently have a Dish 522 SD DVR that I have setup to run my living room TV with one output and the other output goes to a 4 way splitter in my attic to run two other TVs throughout the house off of the second output.

This setup works perfectly for what I need, so I'm trying to figure out how I can do something similar with a DirecTV HD DVR that I'm getting installed in 2 days.

I'll be getting one HD DVR for the living room and one standard receiver for the master bedroom. We have one more TV in a spare bedroom, but it rarely gets used so I'm not too worried about it right now.

Make sure the installer does NOT re-use the old wiring that goes to/from the splitter in your attic. Have him run new coax to the new receiver in the bedroom, and also make sure he does not re-use the old wiring that ran from the Dish DVR to the splitter.

With the new DirecTV equipment set up and running, to get the spare bedroom running all you will need to do is buy an inexpensive channel 3/4 rf modulator (radio shack and most stores that sell tv's), connect it to the yellow/red/white output of the DirecTV DVR, and connect the old cable wiring (that goes to the splitter) to the output of the modulator. You can then connect anything that is hooked up to that old splitter to a TV set and watch the output of your new DVR. In your master bedroom, you can connect the new DirecTV receiver to the yellow/red/white input on your TV, and the old coax from the splitter to the antenna input, and watch either the DirecTV receiver or the signal from the DVR.

Carl

 

[NYCEGUY01]

If you tell the tech that you want new wires ran and they are currently inside the walls etc.. just expect to pay for new wallfishes etc..