Hi
I have a new Dish Box that was hooked up to my HD TV using a HDMI cable.
It's a VIP722K DVR,
Recently my audio tuner gave out after many years and I bought a new one with HDMI pass-through.
I had a terrible time getting it to work, it would work and then it wouldn't.
I blamed the amplifier and it was driving me crazy until it just quit working completely.
This morning I gave up and reconnected the Dish Box directly to the TV via the HDMI cable.
That's when I discovered that it was the dish box that didn't work, not the tuner.
No matter what I did I couldn't get the TV to detect the signal from the Dish Box.
I tried all 4 HDMI inputs on the TV and no luck.
I can't live without TV so I tried to connect the Dish Bow using component cables.
That worked fine so I have the TV working but now I don't have it connected to the tuner.
The Dish Box has only one set of component outputs each for channel 1 and 2.
If it had more outputs I could jut run one set to the TV and the other set to the tuner for just the audio.
There is actually a separate set for channel 1 but these only produce a corrupted image and buzzing sound I'm not sure what they are for?
Here's my question, does anyone know it I can split the component cable, i.e. splice in a second set of cables so that I can output to both the TV and the tuner from the same output on the dish box?
Or would this over stress something and not produce a strong enough signal or cause some other problem.
The other option could be to split off the sound cables and run the video to the TV and the audio cables to the tuner.
My wife doesn't like to have to use several remote controls to operate the TV, she would rather be able to still use the sound from the TV without the tuner on.
I'm 75 and all this bending over and pulling the components in and out is getting to me, I'd like to get this done.
I don't want to ask for a new dish box, I just went through that and lost all my saved programs and the HDMI didn't lip sink with the TV very will anyway, it worked a lot better running the sound via the component connection.
If you ran both the TV and tuner, the sounds sync was way off.
So I'm happy if I can just connect every thing with component cables, I also have a DVR I'd like to get connected, but I'll worry about that later.
Would it really kill Dish to have a few extra connectors on the box so you can connect to a tuner, a TV and a VCR or DVR?
Any one know it there's anything like a USB hub and will allow you to input one component signal and output several?
I'm not really an audiophile I'm more of a computer geek.
Any advice welcome.
Mike
PS, I just realized that the Dish Box has Digital Audio out, and the tuner has digital audio in, but I don't have a cable for that so maybe that's an option if I buy a cable?
I have a new Dish Box that was hooked up to my HD TV using a HDMI cable.
It's a VIP722K DVR,
Recently my audio tuner gave out after many years and I bought a new one with HDMI pass-through.
I had a terrible time getting it to work, it would work and then it wouldn't.
I blamed the amplifier and it was driving me crazy until it just quit working completely.
This morning I gave up and reconnected the Dish Box directly to the TV via the HDMI cable.
That's when I discovered that it was the dish box that didn't work, not the tuner.
No matter what I did I couldn't get the TV to detect the signal from the Dish Box.
I tried all 4 HDMI inputs on the TV and no luck.
I can't live without TV so I tried to connect the Dish Bow using component cables.
That worked fine so I have the TV working but now I don't have it connected to the tuner.
The Dish Box has only one set of component outputs each for channel 1 and 2.
If it had more outputs I could jut run one set to the TV and the other set to the tuner for just the audio.
There is actually a separate set for channel 1 but these only produce a corrupted image and buzzing sound I'm not sure what they are for?
Here's my question, does anyone know it I can split the component cable, i.e. splice in a second set of cables so that I can output to both the TV and the tuner from the same output on the dish box?
Or would this over stress something and not produce a strong enough signal or cause some other problem.
The other option could be to split off the sound cables and run the video to the TV and the audio cables to the tuner.
My wife doesn't like to have to use several remote controls to operate the TV, she would rather be able to still use the sound from the TV without the tuner on.
I'm 75 and all this bending over and pulling the components in and out is getting to me, I'd like to get this done.
I don't want to ask for a new dish box, I just went through that and lost all my saved programs and the HDMI didn't lip sink with the TV very will anyway, it worked a lot better running the sound via the component connection.
If you ran both the TV and tuner, the sounds sync was way off.
So I'm happy if I can just connect every thing with component cables, I also have a DVR I'd like to get connected, but I'll worry about that later.
Would it really kill Dish to have a few extra connectors on the box so you can connect to a tuner, a TV and a VCR or DVR?
Any one know it there's anything like a USB hub and will allow you to input one component signal and output several?
I'm not really an audiophile I'm more of a computer geek.
Any advice welcome.
Mike
PS, I just realized that the Dish Box has Digital Audio out, and the tuner has digital audio in, but I don't have a cable for that so maybe that's an option if I buy a cable?