2 tv's but one without cabling

[yarrumc]

Hi,

How does this setup work? I know you can have one receiver hooked up to the dish and then have a second receiver receive a signal from the other (UHF?) so you can watch the recorded programs and or other channels. What is the quality on the second TV (HD?) that is non-cabled? Am I understanding the setup correctly? I am looking to possibly go with Dish because of this setup. I have one room (2nd TV) that just isn't really positioned to be cabled from Satellite dish (live in Condo) and thought this might work best for me.

 

[osu1991]

it is not wireless, the dual tuners need a cable from the receiver to the second tv in order for the second tv to get programming.

 

[Jared Twomey]

it does need a coax running to it. Doesnt exactly have to be from the dish, just the receiver... is there existing cable coax in the 2nd room of the condo? if so you could backfeed the signal off of that

 

[dishbd]

Just to add, the UHF part is for the second remote. That way you can still use the second dish remote even though the receiver is in another room.

 

[riffjim4069]

Like others have mentioned, the Dish Network dual-tuner receivers (like my 622) support TV2 via an RG-6 coax running from the receiver to the 2nd TV location. The 2nd TV location is controlled using the TV2 (UHF) remote. TV2 is SD only (not HD) and the Dish Network receiver is placed into dual-TV mode.

Having said that, it is indeed possible to support TV2 "without RG-6 cabling" using a 3rd party Audio/Video extender. In my case, I have two guest bedroom...each with an old 21" TV. I connected TV2 output (composite or red, white and yellow cables) to a Radio Shack video extender box next to the Dish Network receiver. When we have an overnight guest, I simply connect the remote video extender (they are sold in matching pairs) to the guest TV, using composite cables, and viola!....TV without wires. The TV2 remote works just fine and, if I recall, the A/V extenders may even be capable of relaying IR back to the Dish Network receiver.

The Radio Shack audio/video extenders palm-sized 2.4Mhz UHF devices (look like mini satellite dishes). They work well and the video quality is just fine on the 21" SD TV.

Anyway, I hope the following link helps...

RadioShack.com - Home Entertainment: Accessories: Audio accessories: Wireless signal senders: 2.4GHz Wireless Audio/Video Sender with IR Extender

 

[yarrumc]

it does need a coax running to it. Doesnt exactly have to be from the dish, just the receiver... is there existing cable coax in the 2nd room of the condo? if so you could backfeed the signal off of that

The second TV does have existing cabling from the cable company. That cable is split off the living room , which seems to have feed from the street. The main TV seems to have it's own cable run, not looped off the other two jacks (living and bedroom). So I don't think I have a way of the two TV's being connect by a common coax.