RF to HDTV in second room

[rjad]

A friend has a Dish VIP722 receiver in living room connecting to the local HDTV via HDMI. There is also a coax cable running from TV2 output to second room where there is an old TV. All work good. Now he wants to upgrade the old TV to HDTV. The HDTV he is looking at does have a coax connector marked as "ANT". The TV specs say ATSC/QAM tuner. Do you guys think if this HDTV will work in the second room? Will it be able to "see" channel 73 from the VIP722 TV2 output? If not, any other alternatives?

[mike123abc]

The output for the second TV is standard definition only. You really only have 3 choices:

1. Share the output of TV1 with TV2 (i.e. use HDMI on one TV and component on the other). They both of course have to watch the same thing at the same time.

2. Get a second receiver for TV2.

3. Wait for the 922 to finally be released. It can sling an HD signal over to another TV, essentially you would need an HD sling catcher and a network connection at TV 2. You can of course do network over powerlines or wireless to get the signal to TV2.

[tstolze]

Yes it should be able to view it, although it will be SD. The only way to get HD to the second TV is to run either component to it, or he can purchase a HDMI splitter.


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Let him know that with either setup listed above will limit him to watching the same thing on both displays.

[rjad]

He's ok with watching SD on second HDTV for now. His only concern is whether the digital tuner (ATSC/QAM) for the "ANT" input of the new TV can actually tune to the analog channel 73 coming from the VIP722 TV2 output. The new HDTV doesn't have an analog tuner (NTSC).

[rjad]

1. Share the output of TV1 with TV2 (i.e. use HDMI on one TV and component on the other). They both of course have to watch the same thing at the same time.

The second room is on second floor, pretty far comparing to those component cables or HDMI cables that I have seen. I don't know if it is feature.
I know RG6 can run pretty much throughout the house without a problem, but I am not sure if component or HDMI cables can go that far.

[tstolze]

The second room is on second floor, pretty far comparing to those component cables or HDMI cables that I have seen. I don't know if it is feature.
I know RG6 can run pretty much throughout the house without a problem, but I am not sure if component or HDMI cables can go that far.

I have a 75 ft cable and a 35 ft cable that work with no problem.

[mike123abc]

Cat 5 to hdmi converters let you make the runs much easier.

[whatchel1]

He's ok with watching SD on second HDTV for now. His only concern is whether the digital tuner (ATSC/QAM) for the "ANT" input of the new TV can actually tune to the analog channel 73 coming from the VIP722 TV2 output. The new HDTV doesn't have an analog tuner (NTSC).

If it has no NTSC tuner then it will not get a picture.

[rjad]

If it has no NTSC tuner then it will not get a picture.

That's what he was afraid of.
Now that US has cut over to all digital TV, few if any HDTV selling today will include an analog tuner. This means the dish dual tuner TV2 output is becoming useless as is. It's pretty bad.

[rjad]

I have a 75 ft cable and a 35 ft cable that work with no problem.

HDMI cable?