Thread: How many Joeys will I need?

WE have 4 tvs and 1 922. 3 of the sets are cabled to TV2 and since there are only 2 of us in the house it works for our needs. If we go to the Hopper only one of the of the 3 tvs is HD and the other 2 are presently older sets. Will I need a Joey at each set even though I only want SD at 2 of the sets or will there be a way to split the signal as I am now doing?

You would need a Joey at each additional TV or you'd have to run a long HDMI cable if you wanted to mirror it to another TV. There is no coax out of the Hopper or Joeys.

The Hopper has HDMI, component and composite output. The Joey has HDMI and component output. I'm not sure if all outputs are active as they are on the other DISH receivers. Perhaps you could use these outputs to connect to your other TV's. Of course, it would mirror what is on the corresponding Hopper or Joey.

Thanks. That's the way it looked to me. Didn't want to pay for 2 Joeys (providing 1 is free) but if that's what it takes I guess my bill will go up.

Originally Posted by Lt Disher

The Hopper has HDMI, component and composite output. The Joey has HDMI and component output. I'm not sure if all outputs are active as they are on the other DISH receivers. Perhaps you could use these outputs to connect to your other TV's. Of course, it would mirror what is on the corresponding Hopper or Joey.

Joey has HDMI for HD and COMPOSITE (not component) for SD outputs.

As someone else noted, you could hook the composite outputs to an RF modulator and feed the additional SD TVs that way. If you do so and are planning on sharing the same coax as moca, be sure to use a filter. Some modulators are noisy and you don't want the modulated signal to interfere with the Moca frequencies.

Originally Posted by JM42

Joey has HDMI for HD and COMPOSITE (not component) for SD outputs.

As someone else noted, you could hook the composite outputs to an RF modulator and feed the additional SD TVs that way. If you do so and are planning on sharing the same coax as moca, be sure to use a filter. Some modulators are noisy and you don't want the modulated signal to interfere with the Moca frequencies.

You are right that is composite for SD on the Joey. My mistake, sorry.

Don't you guys see a bunch of old fogeys signing up for Hoppers and Joeys with HD at the Hopper, maybe one additional TV, and SD on two other older TV's with coax inputs only? I can already see the customer education on these being a beast trying to explain this to customers.

Just get ready to use a lot of RF modulators. Even the oldest fogeys understand CH 3.

Well that just means that the ones selling it need to do a good job of qualifying the customer. I myself do not think Dish does a good job of doing that.