Newb Dish 811 two room HD possible or not

[Kandiru]

Hi:

I am new here coming from cable. I got a used 811 off e-bay and a Dish 1000 after i called Dish and learned that i can just order HD (Pak and Voom) for $20/mo. So i will only keep my basic cable without the boxes and get 11 extra HD channels with $40 off my monthly bill

Anyway, my HT purist headache (have and HDTV and HD projector) is to feed two TVs HD signal. I will need to pull DVI or component with audio into the second room.

Here comes the question for the experts: is there a modulator for HD to allow me to scramble HD and audio to send over coax/air/cables to send to second room, and if not which cable run will have less signal loss, DVI or component?

With anticipated thanks

Kandiru from Amazonia

 

[dfergie]

Welcome to SatelliteGuys... I believe you will have to go with component to go to your other Set.

 

[murf]

www.audioauthority.com Cat5 delivery of HD to any or all rooms in your house.

 

[GeorgeLV]

Is there any reason why you don't think paying the mirroring fee for a second receiver makes more sense?

 

[SimpleSimon]

Being able to watch two separate HD channels is nice - and the expense of a second 811 is not going to be far from what's needed to 'stretch' HD to the 2nd room.

 

[JimMcC]

811

Kandiru, I have the same situation as you. I own an 811 that I use with an upstairs TV, and I lease a second 811 for $5.00 per month for my projector in my basement HT room. That's what I recommend.

 

[rattili]

I use modulator+diplexers to backfeed the HD signal from my family room into my bedroom upstairs. If course, I can only watch 1 channel on both the sets, but am the only one watching. Am either downstairs or upstairs. It works fine.

 

[SimpleSimon]

I use modulator+diplexers to backfeed the HD signal from my family room into my bedroom upstairs. If course, I can only watch 1 channel on both the sets, but am the only one watching. Am either downstairs or upstairs. It works fine.

Signal run through a modulator and RG-6 is NOT HD - unless your modulator is one of those 5-figure ATSC versions that are not available to consumers.

 

[Kandiru]

Well i got the receiver used off e-bay and Dish would give me no deals for $15/mo.

How about this gadget:

http://www.svideo.com/1080i.html

Review here:


http://www.htpcservers.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=28430#28430



Thank you all for input.

In the interest of corporate greed, the manual has a big sign stating that "you will lose component video out if connected to DVI port" but i checked simultanous outputs DVI and component and it works ok.

I will also need a optical to coaxial adaptor and then a splitter to get AC-3 both locations.