LKHA wrote:
Sorry for caps. I have the vip 211z. Thinking should be able to hook into orginal ant/cable if I can find splitter rearranging hook ups. Main tv HD others SD.
If you are using the BUILT IN RF modulator on that receiver it IS TOO WEAK to "push" the RF to more than ONE TV and even that one TV is questionable let alone using a splitter along with a long run of coax...
For "remote" TVs I would recommend going several different routes.
Ideally you can get a HDMI "splitter" that splits the HDMI port to allow TWO TVs.. Then run a long HDMI cable to your remote TV or use a HDMI to Cat 5 (networking cable) adapter pair.
This will give the the best result but can get expensive (parts) and labor intensive to run the wire.
Optionally you could run analog composite or component wire to your remote TV.. Downside is you will have expense in wiring and labor to install and you only get SD on composite and limited HD on the component..
Or an external High power RF modulator (Blonder Tongue at one time made some real nice ones, not sure if they still do)..
Now days they are making some HD RF modulators but you must use them as a set (can't use the TV tuner with these but they do have the advantage of using existing 75 Ohm coax).