Dish signal to multiple TVs

[iagary]

I use a tailgater and dish 211 receiver in my TT. Right now I have a TV inside and an outside TV. I have been running an HDMI cord through a window to get the dish signal to the outside TV. I am looking at a TT that would have 3 TV's. One in the living area (where the dish receiver would be located), one in the bedroom and an outside TV. How are others on this forum distributing satellite signal to multiple TV's? I do not like to tie my antenna to my dish receiver because if they are separate we can watch two things at the same time (one on antenna and another on dish). Any secrets to extending dish to multiple TV's without drilling holes and HDMI splitters?

[Big_Katuna]

iagary wrote:
Big Katuna, does the 5 wire RCA connection result in HD? I have just used the 3 wire (R/W/Y) for SD for the local TV in my current TT with the HDMI through the window for the outside TV. This works fine. My indoor TV is only 24" so not a big difference between SD and HD.

Yes, 5 wire component is the same as HDMI.

[Johno02]

My HDMI splitter works well, but not when connected to a Spectrum Cable TV DVR. The DVR detects it and gives a "illegal Device Attached" message. And yes,it did not provide HD on the Coax connection, just on the AVI and HDMI outputs. But we do get good HD OTA on coax. In our case, the Limitation is not the cable, just what the cable is connected to. But each situation is different.

[iagary]

Big Katuna, does the 5 wire RCA connection result in HD? I have just used the 3 wire (R/W/Y) for SD for the local TV in my current TT with the HDMI through the window for the outside TV. This works fine. My indoor TV is only 24" so not a big difference between SD and HD.

[Big_Katuna]

IOGEAR makes HDMI wireless transmitter/receivers.

I have the single version, about $190.

The one that supports 5 inputs X 2 TVs is about $300.

Tripp Lite sells a 4 X 4 switch box for about $400. Not wireless but cables.

Splitters are cheap. I have a 1 X 2 for less than $15.

I use the wireless transmitter for the outside tv and would move the transmitter to the bedroom if I needed it.

The bedroom has OTA and thats good enough usually.

Add a DVD player wherever you need it.

My friend's new 2017 motorhome has HDMI everywhere.

You can use the component out (RCA JACKS 5 WIRE) for one tv freeing up the HDMI for another.

[Bill_Satellite]

Wow, so difficult inaccuracies to address above. First, the coax output on your 211 is NOT HD and you cannot sent ANY HD via coax without some specialty hardware. You CAN "receive" HD via your OTA TV antenna and the HD tuner in your TV will broadcast HD on that TV alone but you can't send an HD signal from a source like a satellite receiver to a TV via coax.
The BOMB (box of many buttons) is a distribution center and if you don't know what it is then you don't have one and this does not apply to your situation.
You mention that you are "looking" at a new TT. Are you certain that the only connections to each TV is coax? If so, the only way to get HD satellite to each TV is either with a splitter (despite someone saying a splitter won't work, they work perfectly and are installed as factory options by many manufacturers) or by using multiple receivers.
Yes, wireless HDMI repeaters are available as you mentioned and they work but they are not cheap.
Now, here's what might be of the most value to you. Both DirecTV and Dish have receivers that can be tied to wireless remote receivers (mini-Genie for DirecTV and Joey for Dish). You have the master receiver connected to the main TV and a client at each TV for about $7/month each. Maybe you could get away with just one client and a splitter from 1 receiver to the 2nd TV. Not knowing the layout it's hard to tell. No matter what you want to do it can be done fairly inexpensively. Even if you had to have the dealer install a splitter and run an HDMI cable to the other 2 TV's it should be a relatively inexpensive when compared to the overall purchase price.

[Larry-D]

iagary wrote:
Does anyone use a wireless transmitter/ receiver(s) setup? I see them available for HDMI (very expensive) or composite a/v (not too expensive). I would be looking for one with "pass through" on the transmitter and two receivers for the two "remote" TV's. Any thoughts on those?

I'm using an HDMI wireless transmitter to the bedroom tv because I didn't want to run another coax. It works great. It transmits back to the living room where the Dish receiver is in an overhead cabinet. Up side is that the HDMI receiver is portable so it can be used outside. Downside is that only one wireless receiver can be used with the transmitter.

[Johno02]

Throw in a DVD player and a VCR, and it really gets to be fun.

[Johno02]

Do you have a park cable connection?? If not, or instead of, run a jumper from the dish receiver to the cable input on your antenna booster/switch. Then with antenna on, you get that, with antenna off, you get the dish receiver output. If you really want to, and have a park cable connection, you could put an AB switch for that. HDMI splitters are quite expensive, and be aware that some receivers and cable boxed will not work with them. I have a Cable DVR at home that will not work with a HDMI splitter. It detects it, and says it is illegal. So I run one TV on coax, and one on HDMI. Its funny, but it will only supply the HD signal to one or the other, but not to both at the same time. Believe it or not, with HDMI cables, there are (or can be) sneaky things between pieces of equipment. Don't worry about political hacking, its nothing compared to what goes on in your house!

[iagary]

K Charles, I don't know what you mean by "the box with all the buttons". Can you elaborate on that? Is it some sort of distribution box?

[Lwiddis]

Second chance, I use a spilter at home. Hiccups (3 second blackouts) but works.

[iagary]

Does anyone use a wireless transmitter/ receiver(s) setup? I see them available for HDMI (very expensive) or composite a/v (not too expensive). I would be looking for one with "pass through" on the transmitter and two receivers for the two "remote" TV's. Any thoughts on those?

[iagary]

Johno02, I do have a coax output, but I want to use the coax to the other TV locations for the antenna signal. My camper is wired with only coax. Seems this day and age camper manufacturers would modernize their A/V wiring. Oh well. HDMI through the window isn't so bad. I use the R/W/Y output for the inside TV when I do that.

[K_Charles]

Our antenna and the coaxial out from the VIP211 go to the box with all the buttons. The HDMI goes to the Tv In the living room and that is high definition, the bedroom and outside TV's are not.

[Johno02]

If your dish receiver has a coax output, just use that instead of an HDMI cable. An HD signal travels just as well via a COAX as it does on a HDMI cable. HDMI cables di have a lot of other options, but just for a TV signal, coax works fine. Do you have any areas prewired for TV?? If so, what kind of cables are there?? Ours was wired with both coax and AVI cables (before HDMI), so I ran dish on the AVI, antenna and cable on the coax. Used input on TV to select which I wanted.