Adding TV to basement. Cabling/connection ?

[asmcbride]

I'm in the process of finishing off my basement and want to be sure that I get the proper cabling in the right places for anywhere I may potentially want a television. One question I have is...are the outputs on any given receiver all "hot" at the same time? For example, I currently have a 811 upstairs in the living room (hooked up via DVI), and was wondering if I could potentially run either a long component cable or long s-video cable through the floor and to a tv that would be wall mounted directly beneath the other. I know that I can get cables long enough (25 ft should do it), and I was thinking that I could just get a second remote for the 811 and keep it downstairs. Will this work? Are all outgoing video signals active at the same time?

Second ?: In the event that I decide to upgrade to a dual tuner receiver sometime soon after the remodeling is comlete should I cable at least one jack with (2) coax cable for the dual tuners or will dish be able to make the dual tuner receiver work with the standard (1) coax that runs to most TV wall jacks?

-any and all input and advice in advance of this project is much appreciated.

 

[cdru]

Your first question regarding if all the jacks are "hot" is yes for the most part AFAIK. Some receivers, such as the 522, can turn off the 2nd TV's output if you are in single mode. But with receivers where there are multiple outputs for the same tuner, they all should have the same picture (RF, RCA, SVIDEO). Obviously only HD ports are going to be in HD.

Your second question is bit bit harder to answer as there isn't any one "right" answer. General consensus is to run at least two coax lines if not 3 (or even 4). Dish has Dish Pro Plus LNB/multiswitches/seperators that will allow you to hook up a dual tuner receiver using just 1 line. With a diplexer, you can do everything with just 1 line. However things can get complex and aren't as flexable this way. If I were you I'd plan on running 3 coax to every jack back to a central location. Then you can always hook things up individually as you actually need them.

 

[kavula]

I'm not sure if on the 811 both HD outputs can be active at the same time (DVI and component). asmcbride, you were surely talking about running a long composite (yellow RCA) or s-video cable, not HD component (three color RCA cables)? Either way, you'd still need to run audio through two white and red RCA cables, for example. That is, unless you ran a simple coax.

 

[Yota86]

All of the 811's outputs are hot at the same time.