Can I have cable tv and dish on one cable line with vip 222?`

[Holysmoke]

I have always used diplexers to combine my comcast cable and dish to my HDTV. I recently upgraded to HD with the vip 222 which controls one HDTV and one SDTV in another room. there is no way to run another cable so I am stuck with one.

I am assuming I am out of luck since the vip 222 uses diplexers already but maybe you guys know a way.

since I "moved", I would like to receive the locals from comcast in HD and the locals from dish I "moved" to especially since they are in SD.

thanks

 

[pabeader]

you would combine AFTER the dish receiver so the diplexers should not be in the equation.

 

[Holysmoke]

up in the attic, I have a diplexer going to the vip 222 in the satellite port and to the sdtv in the uhf/tv port. at the back of the vip 222 is a tri plexer.

can you explain what I do to make this work after the receiver?

thanks

 

[Holysmoke]

you would combine AFTER the dish receiver so the diplexers should not be in the equation.

does "after" mean combining the signal for tv 2? or is there a way to combine for the HDTV?

dish tech support suggested I can only do it for tv2 after the diplexer in the attic.

 

[Holysmoke]

anyone have an idea?

 

[DishTech091]

It will not work, you can not run cable and sat feed thru the same cable, at least where I live. Why can't you get second line there? Finish Basement?

 

[Jim5506]

The problem with combining cable with Dish TV2 output is that cable uses all the channels and your TV2 output would comflict with a channel already in use.

 

[dishcomm]

The problem with combining cable with Dish TV2 output is that cable uses all the channels and your TV2 output would comflict with a channel already in use.

Yep..he'd have a terrible time with cable signal ingress.
Perhaps he could try using a high moduated channel. Such as one above ch116 which is the same frequency as analog 60. I think..

 

[Jim5506]

Not only that, but sometimes if cable has a blank channel or two, they will push a dummy signal into it, so on cable there may be no channels available at all to insert your 222 output.

 

[Holysmoke]

thank you