Cables for Dish used by Direct

[jeepers94]

I am seriously thinking of switching from Dish to Direct.It depends on my site.
My question is can the cables installed for Dish work with Direct.I have HD setup in bedroom 1 and a HD setup in living room.Cable goes to bedroom 2 from bedroom 1,and to bedroom 3 from living room.In other words i have 2 dual tuners.I can forgo hookups in the bedroom 2 and 3.
The Dish installer cut the pre-existing cables to install theirs.I guess to make me think twice about going back to cable tv!

 

[jessshaun]

Yes, they can. That's what I did at my old house when I switched from Dish to Direct.

 

[cparker]

Cable TV was probably RG59 where satellite uses RG6. You can use the satellite cables for cable TV but vice versa probably would yield unsatisfactory results. I think the Direct boxes use 2 cables where dish uses one and then separates the signal right at the receiver, unless you can get the DirecTV single-wire device in there and I'm not sure it's available everywhere.