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seriochka

Last reply Nov 20, 2006 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish ViP 622 and MCE/TV2 Splitting question...

Friends,

I'm hoping you can answer a question for me .... or at least, help clear up the confusion I'm having right now. My setup is:

* ViP 622 receiver in living room, hooked into home theater (to DVI/HDMI on TV). Audio via Toslink Optical into Stereo Receiver.

* Signal coming in from Dish (coax) split going into TV1 & TV2, taking TV2 out via Composite Video to TV to allow "picture in picture" on my TV rather than via the 622 movable screen.

* Two Dish 500 Receivers installed to provide basic, HD and International channels. A DSP44 switch is mounted/grounded inside my home.

What I'd like to do is hook up my Media Center PC in the living room and split the coax signal in such a way to feed it into the TV tuner card in my PC. (which only has a coax input) I know you can't split (or I've been told rather) this signal like you would a regular cable coax signal.

I've tried buying a supposed "Satellite" splitter from Radio Shack, and tried splitting the signal before it hooks into the Dish receiver and also before it's "split" into the TV1 and TV2 coax inputs on the 622. To date, I have not been able to get my Media Center to see ANY signal coming from the coax.

I guess my question is: Is there a way to do this? Would I need to run a completely separate coax run from the DSP44 to the PC to get a signal? Is there some other component or process to make this work that I haven't tried yet?

Any assistance that could be provided would be most appreciated.

-Steve

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seriochka

Nov 19, 2006

Thanks for the info. The problem is....I have no coax "Output" coming from the 622, just a TV1 and TV2 satellite inputs. There is a "home distribution" coax output on the 622, but when I ran a coax feed from that to the PC card, I still got nothing in terms of signal from the MCE/PC setup.

In looking through other threads, I noticed someone put a link to Dish's cabling diagrams on this site. A number of which seem to indicate that you can "split" the signal to use on other devices (like the PC) with the help of a diplexer. One would be needed at both ends (at the DP 44 and "receiver" end), but that using one would allow such a split to occur.

The link is below:

http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/TechPortal/content/tech/receiver/622.shtml

Go to Install | Images and Wiring Setups .... then look at the entries for DP44 w/Diplexers...there are a few.

-Steve

garys

Nov 19, 2006

Check the info screen as to what the frequency is being output from the 622, it can be changed to make it compatable to the input needed for your pc.

Brew

Nov 20, 2006

The diplexer allows you to run satellite and "regular" signals on the same run of cable. It is used when you only have one run of cable to the 622 and you need to send the output to tv2 back out that same run. You still need a source for the the signal, and on the 622 thats going to be that home distribution output. That will have whatever you are showing on TV2 as it's output. Like garys says, you can change what channel it is outputting out in the setup screens on the 622. I believe by default that is channel 60. What you are not going to get is a signal to the PC that you can change channels on the PC and tune in all your channels. You will have to tune the PC to one channel and leave it, and then change channels on the 622.

seriochka

Nov 20, 2006

OK, I think I understand. But how do I get the Media Center PC to recognize the output from that Channel when first doing the setup? I tried it as its defaults, which sets the channel to "60" but the output type is "Air", that didn't see a signal. I also tried it as "Cable" as a type....which the channel is anywhere from 73 to 125, that also didn't work.

In addition, I tried selecting "cable" instead of satellite as the signal type with the above options, that didn't seem to make any difference.

-Steve

Brew

Nov 20, 2006

That I don't know as I've never run MCE. My current setup is a 625 going to a linux box running MythTV. In mine I just tuned the tv card to channel 60 and it popped up. Getting a picture was the easy part. Configuring the infrared so I could change channels when I wanted to was the hard part.

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dfergie

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Gas Price Info With National Gas Temperature Map

Stumbled across this ... http://www.gaspricewatch.com/USGas_ZipSearch.asp
I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
Added these to this post...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
State By State Gasoline Taxes
Gas Buddy

Ethanol Free Stations

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Bobby

Yesterday at 11:04 AM

Regular$5.299
Premium$5.859
Diesel$7.599
at Costco, Rohnert Park.

harshness

Yesterday at 4:41 PM

Finally! Some big movement in California diesel pricing (and no, there is no such beastie as a diesel "winter formula").

Crude (combined pricing) is around $90/barrel now, so prices should have, at least, fallen in step with the crude futures.

dishstaller

Today at 8:19 AM

harshness said:
Finally! Some big movement in California diesel pricing (and no, there is no such beastie as a diesel "winter formula").

Just curious here.....then why is diesel so much higher out there than it is elsewhere. Bobby just posted $7.59/gal, locally it is $5.59.....that's two bucks difference. :eeek

harshness

26 minutes ago

dishstaller said:
Just curious here.....then why is diesel so much higher out there than it is elsewhere.

California has a ~93¢ per gallon consumer tax rate on automotive diesel, along with significantly higher refinement standards.

The fact that consumers can only buy some new full-sized truck models and a couple of vans with diesel power makes the fuel an odd duck in refinery priorities.

osu1991

7 minutes ago

$3.50-$3.52 around Tulsa and $3.45 in OKC

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Scott Greczkowski

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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

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Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

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Another example:

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Get it?

An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....

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ts27330

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Charter/Spectrum tv app works with more brands

The Charter/Spectrum tv app has been updated to make it downloaded with more tv brands. I recently added it to my LG Oled tv.

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Bobby

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Last reply Today at 9:27 AM · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

4K Events Discussion Thread

This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.

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long_time_Dish

Oct 23, 2026

No NASCAR in 4K on Sunday? Bummer...

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Jim5506

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long_time_Dish said:
No NASCAR in 4K on Sunday? Bummer...

It's on Prime.

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long_time_Dish

Oct 24, 2026

Jim5506 said:
It's on Prime.

Ah, ok, thanks!

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Foxbat

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The World Series Game 1 quality was excellent, the Dolby Surround put us in the seats. Thanks, Dish!

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sasmith

Yesterday at 9:22 PM

Not seeing many 4k games on the 148 channels lately?

Also I do not see the 4KFox channel on 148-01; I also do not subscribed to our Local Houston channels.

Maybe I need to subscribe to locals or add the National Action Pack? Not sure the extra cost is worth it??

thx for any info or suggestions

S

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jsmit86

Today at 9:27 AM

sasmith said:
Not seeing many 4k games on the 148 channels lately?

Also I do not see the 4KFox channel on 148-01; I also do not subscribed to our Local Houston channels.

Maybe I need to subscribe to locals or add the National Action Pack? Not sure the extra cost is worth it??

thx for any info or suggestions

S

Most of the 4K action on the 148-xx channels will be on Saturday for College Football. For whatever reason, the guide does not show the games until later in the week. The Fox Big Noon game will show up, and there will usually be a couple of other games, some on Fox, and some on ESPN.

I don't know if you need to be subscribed to locals to get them.

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ewindowman

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slow_poke_pete

Yesterday at 6:38 PM

https://www.phonearena.com/news/att-reshoring-customer-care_id184650

Meanwhile att is getting rid of overseas call centers

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comfortably_numb

Yesterday at 6:52 PM

slow_poke_pete said:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/att-reshoring-customer-care_id184650

Meanwhile att is getting rid of overseas call centers

Too bad their service is expensive and their coverage sucks compared to the other two of the Big 3

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Juan

Yesterday at 9:50 PM

comfortably_numb said:
Too bad their service is expensive and their coverage sucks compared to the other two of the Big 3

Was that a back door compliment for Verizon?

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dishstaller

Yesterday at 10:00 PM

slow_poke_pete said:
Meanwhile att is getting rid of overseas call centers

Too little too late.

I can actually shed some light on the corp attitude towards call centers.

2015-2017 I was on the Viasat Dealer Council. They would fly us out to CO or CA and wine and dine us. Pretty cool but I was there to give my input because I was a top retailer and I wanted things to improve.
Anyway, at one of the meetings I brought up the fact that customers constantly complained about the overseas call centers. The VP of the company told me that I just didn't understand....those people cost something like 25% of what US employees would cost. Well, as usual when I went out to these meetings, I was loaded for bear....ie facts. I gave them an example of a customer who spent over an hour with one of these call centers and still never got her issue resolved. She called me the next morning after we opened and I had her situation fixed in 2 minutes. I told him "So you guys paid this overseas call center X amount but the customer still wasn't taken care of. I on the other hand, and a US call center probably would have as well because there wouldn't have been the language barrier, had her taken care of in 2 min. so your savings just went right out the door because a US call center would have taken care of her and MANY other customers while your overseas call center did nothing more than PISS off a customer.
Blank stares was all I got.

And THAT was when I realized just how incompetent most of the people are who run these companies. It WAS an enlightening experience.

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Almighty1

Today at 5:30 AM

Even 23 years ago, Verizon was known for having quality customer service. T-Mobile had quality customer service too but just poor mobile service. AT&T when it was still known as AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless both had poor customer service. This was when all three were providing customer service from the U.S. so even in the U.S., some companies are still better than others as it still depends on who they hire. That's the same reason AT&T Broadband Inc. which was basically their Cable TV never gotten far and got sold to Comcast.

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comfortably_numb

Today at 9:26 AM

dishstaller said:
And THAT was when I realized just how incompetent most of the people are who run these companies

I wouldn't call it incompetence necessarily, it's just that the customer is only a device now, the old idea that you need to spend money to make money has been forgotten. They're not looking at the long game. They're looking at immediate exposure and shareholder value. Spending a lot of money on local call centers might be a good long term investment, but it doesn't do anything for them in the short term. That's what the blank stares were about, they thought YOU didn't get it.

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comfortably_numb

Today at 9:27 AM

Juan said:
Was that a back door compliment for Verizon?

And TMO. If anybody's lagging behind the most, it's ATT.

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dishstaller

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