Split signal?

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wxcrawler

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Mar 25, 2012

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Tulsa, OK, United States

• Jun 24, 2012

• #1

Hi,

If I upgrade to a Hopper and Joey, can the signal to the Joey be split to go to 2 TVs? I currently have a 722k with the 2nd receiver signal split to 2 TVs. I do this because we watch TV in the 3rd room once a week, or less. I'm not trying to be cheap, but we watch TV so infrequently on that 3rd TV, I'm not sure it's worth the expense of a 2nd Joey.

Thanks for any input.

Lee

 

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FireFighterHill

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Jun 24, 2012

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Groveland Florida

• Jun 24, 2012

• #2

The only way to do that would be to either fish a HDMI or a component cable from the joey to the second tv. Or as some have figured out the Joey doesn't have to have a MOCA connection to work, so you could move it to the other room just don't expect dish to support using it in that way. Perhaps the installer would wire that room up as well so you can move the box between those rooms.

 

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sparc

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Jul 24, 2006

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• Jun 24, 2012

• #3

Put the joey at your central coax distribution point for those two extra TVs and then use an RF modulator out from that joey. That will give you an SD feed to both TVs.

I have my hopper at the actual TV location and then use an RF modulator out via a second run of coax to an extra TV. This way I can keep HD at one TV.

some previous topics:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/hopper-zone/281708-recommended-rf-modulator-sd-tv-mirroring.html
http://www.satelliteguys.us/hopper-zone/283353-rf-modulator-users-you-happy-results.html

 

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garys

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Sep 29, 2005

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Greentown, Pennsylvania, United States

• Jun 24, 2012

• #4

FireFighterHill said:

The only way to do that would be to either fish a HDMI or a component cable from the joey to the second tv. Or as some have figured out the Joey doesn't have to have a MOCA connection to work, so you could move it to the other room just don't expect dish to support using it in that way. Perhaps the installer would wire that room up as well so you can move the box between those rooms.

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You can either split HDMI or use composite, Joey's do not have a component connection.

 

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FireFighterHill

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Jun 24, 2012

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Groveland Florida

• Jun 25, 2012

• #5

that was a typo I meant composite, my mistake. I wish the joeys had composite.

 

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garys

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• Jun 25, 2012

• #6

Did you just do it again?

 

isaacmorseMI

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• Jun 25, 2012

• #7

FireFighterHill said:

that was a typo I meant composite, my mistake. I wish the joeys had composite.

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They do have composite.

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FireFighterHill

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Groveland Florida

• Jun 25, 2012

• #8

lol damn it I did it again, Im thinking one thing and typing another. they have composite it would be nice if they had component.

 

3HaloODST

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• Jun 25, 2012

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FireFighterHill said:

lol damn it I did it again, Im thinking one thing and typing another. they have composite it would be nice if they had component.

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