Wiring Diagram Help

[occ]

I've decided to go with Dish Network instead of Direct TV. I've also decided I'm going to do all in house wiring myself because the "free professional install" isn't always professional. I'd just rather not have wires strapped to the front of my house. I'm going to go up in the attic and fish all the wires down the walls.

I've attached a wiring diagram that I've put together. I'm going to do the following setup:

Equipment:
1 HD-DVR / 1 SD-DVR

TV's:
2 HD TV / 2 SD TV

I'm guessing I run 2 RG-6 Wires to each of the DVR's from Satellite and then 1 additional wire from both of the DVR's and run those to the other 2 tvs without a DVR?

Please take a look at my diagram and let me know if anything looks wrong. I'd hate to spend several hours wiring up the house to find out that I did it wrong.

Are there any splitters involved?

My location is 65559 if that helps.

If anyone can point me to any good dish network wiring guides that would be cool too.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[bross]

A couple of changes needed.

First, with Dish there is no need for two cables from the dish to the receiver, one is all that's needed even for a dual tuner DVR. No splitters needed, just one RG-6 cable from the dish to each receiver.

The other problem is that the TV-2 output from an HD receiver isn't HD. You would be better off getting two HD receivers and wiring the TV-2 outputs from those to your SD TV's.

 

[rich88]

Where is the ground??

 

[whatchel1]

OTA?

A couple of changes needed.

First, with Dish there is no need for two cables from the dish to the receiver, one is all that's needed even for a dual tuner DVR. No splitters needed, just one RG-6 cable from the dish to each receiver.

The other problem is that the TV-2 output from an HD receiver isn't HD. You would be better off getting two HD receivers and wiring the TV-2 outputs from those to your SD TV's.

What he said but are you going to have OTA channels? If so I would run the 2nd coax (RG-6) from an outdoor antenna. It can be diplexed but there is signal loss.

 

[occ]

That sucks that you can't hook up 2 hd-dvd tvs to a HD-DVR. As far as viewing the recorded HD content on tv2, is that even possible?

I've uploaded a new revised diagram. I read somewhere on these forums or another forum where someone asked if the tv2 cable from the receiver to the other room should be different kind of wire instead of RG6 because of mono sound.. Does anyone have any advice on this?

As far as the ground wire I put that near the bottom of the diagram.

Thanks so far guys for your help.. getting there.. slowly.

 

[KAB]

Perhaps you have a reason, but your living room to master bedroom is an awful long run. Why not come from office (for TV2)?

You can run two HDTV's from the receiver, one via HDMI, the other Component, BUT they will have to watch the same programming, no independent tuning.

TV2 audio is not mono. RG6, period the end.

 

[peaked]

If you use ProPlus equipment you don't need two lines from dish. If you have room, time, and cable,you could run the extra lines for alternate lines later or cameras in to TV.

 

[peaked]

Good Luck fishing!