TV Upgrade Cable Routing
Hey Folks I'm a RV newbie, just purchased a used 2005 37' National Tropical LX. Since they're on longer in business I can't go to them for info, so here I am. I've replaced the front and rear TV's wi...
Forum Discussion
dougrainer wrote:
What makes you think HD signals can be transmitted thru regular Coax????? I looked at the Genie and NOTHING on its list says HD can be transmitted thru Coax. Coax CAN transmit OTA signals but NOT a signal that has been processed by a Sat/Cable receiver. Doug
msmith1199 wrote:
According to what I've read you can transmit the signal over regular coax but it won't be true HD quality at the TV. The true HD signal is always transmitted over coax from the dish to the receiver, but from the receiver to the TV you have to have HDMI cable for a true HDMI picture. The picture is pretty good with coax, but there's not a lot of sense of upgrading everything to HD if you aren't going to have an HD picture.
Both DISH and DirecTV, and others, use Multimedia Over CoAx (MoCA) technology to send HD-quality data over regular RG6 (or even RG59) coax. You can read about the MoCA technology here.
So . . .
Doug -- I would not expect an in-depth discussion of MoCA on DirecTV's (or DISH's) web sites. It's for byte-heads. The sat service web sites are all about marketing.
msmith1199 -- the HD quality on MoCA networks is just fine because it's encoded data.
If none of this convinces you, ask DISH Hopper and DirecTV Genie users.
