» Cabling & dual receivers

My 5-year old house has been internally wired with coax cable splitting off several times at several places (probably 8-12 end points) from one central input-somewhat like a tree diagram. The cable company signal was strong enough for all the TV’s but just barely for the internet service at the extreme end point. Can I use this same coax for the sat-tv signal? (internet is no longer using this coax)

With the dual receiver box, it sounds like it gets the signal from the coax coming out of the wall, but if the 2nd tv for that box is in another room, I would need to run a separate coax from the box to the 2nd tv….is that correct?

If so, I don’t intend to have a coax running on the floor from the dual box in the family room to the 2nd tv in the bedroom, and remodeling is not going to happen. Is the answer just to go with “single” boxes for the 3 or 4 rooms I have in mind?

I have no interest in HDTV, Tivo, DVR, etc., but a box with an internal VCR would be nice, but not a must-have.

Comments (3) -> “Cabling & dual receivers”

by david at 2:23 pm
Hi, Yes with a dual reciever you would need a coax leading from the receiver to the second TV. Depending on how your existing splitters are set up, the installer might be able to just remove a splitter.

If you went with all single receivers you would need a coax wire leading from the dish to each receiver. You can’t have any splitters in the line with satellite.

You mentioned not being interested in a DVR, but wanted a receiver with an internat VCR….. No satellite receiver that i know of has a built in VCR. The DVR works in like a VCR, except you don’t have any tapes. All your movies are kept on a hard drive.

I hope this helped and if you have any more questions, just return to this post and reply in the comment field.

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by dmgroh at 5:33 pm
Without any splitters, you would have 4 coax lines, each running directly from the dish to the respective (single) box if you had 4 tv’s? Somehow that doesn’t sound right. Why does a splitter work with cable and not with dish?

Yes, you are correct about the DVR–I found out last nite at Best Buy. I assume they work just like a vcr but with more features. I assume the DVR should have nothing to do with any cabling issues.
by dave at 11:13 pm
With satellite you are receiving a signal from a minimum of two satellites. The signal from both satellites are combined with in the LNB and when it hits the receiver, the receiver makes the signal useable.

Before the dual receivers were made avalible, on a four receiver system… you would need a coax wire leading from the dish to each receiver. Now with the dual receiver system the installer can normally make a four TV install much cleaner.

Right the DVR has nothing to do with cabling and it is very nice to have. After a couple weeks of using it you will wonder how you ever managed to watch TV with out it.

I live down south in Louisiana and when we had to leave town for three months because of Katrina, I had to get use to watching TV the old way again.

As you are watching any program you can rewind, pause then fast forward if you want. You can also set it up to record all new episodes of a program or if something is comming on and you don’t want to miss it you can have the system remind you that it is about to start or even record it.

Let me know if you have more questions.

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