How difficult is it to do? I have a couple of satellite receivers and I have an old satellite dish, but I need it to watch a cable channel out in the park? Any advice or direction would be appreciated.
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I have a Dell XPS 7100, which includes a tv tuner. I have a Belkin N wireless router. My satellite receiver is a Dish VIP 722. Is there an additional component I may need to accomplish this? I’m trying to avoid having to run a cable from one end of the house to the pc room. Thanks!!
Thanks to "R". Excellent answer!
@Caleb….thank you as well for replying.
No. Not the way you think.
What you’re proposing is to relay the signal through some sort of device to your TV tuner. As far as I know, you can’t transmit the original signal using the same medium (over the air), since the only thing that can transmit ATSC and other TV signals over the air are TV broadcasters and cable/satellite companies. They have special equipment and satellite dishes to do that (as well as a license from the FCC).
You can buy a Media Extender (like for Windows Media Center PCs)…an Xbox 360 is capable of this, but it’s usage and setup is different from what you’re asking for. You want to send the signal from the TV to your PC’s tuner…not without another PC sitting next to the satellite box. The PC can take the TV and re-send it over WiFi to a Media Extender device like an Xbox 360 which is hooked up to your TV so you can watch stuff from your PC…so that obviously won’t work for what you’re asking.
You can, however, ask for or rent a second satellite box that can be placed in the same room as the PC and hook it up to the tuner. The cabling is already embedded in your house’s walls, so it wouldn’t be like running a second cable along the floor.
I am due to renew my DISHNET subscription next week and have been offered free HD tv for life … I am concerned that HD receiver/television set will use significantly more electricity … I have been unable to find any power usage data for my present setup or the HD … I realize that different equipment uses different amounts of power so a ballpark percentage will answer my question … many thanks!
http://reviews.cnet.com/green-tech/tv-power-efficiency/
I’ve connected 2 tvs to 1 receiver and I want to know if there is a way to change channels on the tv without the receiver.
Dish receivers come with a 2nd receiver that’s designed to be used from another room. It uses UHF signals and not IR signals, so it can reach the receiver in another room, through walls or whatnot.
Your receiver should have something similar. Contact your provider to find out.
I have a JVC lt-26EX19B TV, and strangely I can’t find it’s manual anywhere on the internet, anyway I don’t know how to connect my satellite receiver, I have red, white and yellow cables and I don’t know where to put them on the tv, I tried putting them in video-1 and video-2 and they both didn’t work, both the TV and the receiver are brand new!
Are you tuning the TV to the required channel and changing channels through the satellite receiver and not the TV? With Dish, the TV is tuned to channel 03 and then the signal comes through. Unless it’s a dual tuner receiver, then TV1 is on 03 and TV2 is on 73 or 83, I forget! LOL
Are you using an HD receiver or a standard def receiver? If it’s an HD, the best way (best picture quality and easiest) is to use and HDMI cable. You don’t need an expensive one for broadcast TV, a respectible one is good enough. Don’t buy the cheapest one you can find either. That’s connected HMDI out on the receiver and HDMI in on the TV.
If you’re using Standard Def receivers, they usually work just on TV but I have seen some that need the assignment of video one or two. Make sure you’re cabling from a video out to a video in on the TV. They are usually marked with little signs on the unit.
I tried looking up your model and came up with nothing so I can’t help you there. But be sure you have the TV correctly tuned to the channel for the receiver. I have had more than one person bang their heads against the wall for hours and that was the issue.
I have satellite at home in the UK (which uses a digital satellite receiver with a decoder card to receive paid channels), and I am still using old VHS tapes to record satellite and "normal TV" channels. I am thinking of upgrading both the VCR and the satellite receiver mixed in with a digital TV receiver with only one device. Who makes devices like this? And what prices am I looking at?
I believe your only option is some sort of custom solution like MythTV or windows media center. Maybe Nero’s liquidTV will also work for you
our satellite connection is shared in our building and you’re supposed to connect the coax cable to something but I’m not sure what. - do I buy an HDMI cable adapter or something?
I see alot of hotels doing this without using individual satellite receivers in every room and it works fine however, I"’m not sure how to connect it and what cables to buy.
I don’t have a satellite receiver but the whole building is connected to one satellite and a coax cable with this connection comes out of the wall. How do I connect that to a laptop or TV?
All TVs have a coax input. Yours may be labeled ANT In or something, but it’s there. Just get a standard RG-6 type coax cable and connect the TV as normal. You’ll use the TV’s ANT input, not one of the auxiliary or video inputs.
As for your laptop, you’ll need to get a USB TV tuner, install that on laptop, and connect the coax cable to the tuner. They’re about $30-40 at most computer stores. Best Buy should have them.
You can use a coax splitter if you want your TV and laptop connected at the same time.
I have a Direct TV satellite receiver box, but my account is on hold. Is there a way to use the Direct TV box as a digital converter so I can watch local channels?
In a word… NO. Sorry.
The DirecTV receiver inputs satellite signals of a much higher frequency and different encoding than broadcast DTV. All components are large scale integration ICs with a dedicated application and nothing that can be changed.
Dig deep and pull out the $50 or so to buy an "off-the-air" digital converter box.
Okay so i have only 1 direct TV receiver box and its located in my living room and my direct TV account is active. I was wondering if it was possible to use the direct TV satellite to serve as a regular antenna to send signal to a digital converter box for my television in my bedroom ?
No. The Direct TV antenna is made for about 14 Gigahertz. Your TV stations are less that 1 gigahertz. A coat hanger would work better.
Okay so i have only 1 direct TV receiver box and its located in my living room and my direct TV account is active. I was wondering if it was possible to use the direct TV satellite to serve as a regular antenna to send signal to a digital converter box for my television in my bedroom ?
No. The Direct TV antenna is made for about 14 Gigahertz. Your TV stations are less that 1 gigahertz. A coat hanger would work better.
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