Coax to HDMI?

[Feras Kaid]

Helloo. I am new to all this so please help me out. I have dish with a single box for two tvs one with HD channels in the living room and the other for SD channels in my basement. The tv in the basement connects to the wall with a coax cable to receive the SD channels but i was looking to see if it is possible to convert the coax to the HDMI. I had gotten a new receiver to go with the surround sound speakers in the ceiling that i found when i moved in but the receiver does not take coax input only HDMI, RCA, and other cables. So the speakers are useless with the dish channels and can only use it for my ps4. Please any help is appreciated in getting a solution for Coax to HDMI or any other options that will allow me to get HD channels without renting out another dish box. Thank you

 

[TLS Guy]

Helloo. I am new to all this so please help me out. I have dish with a single box for two tvs one with HD channels in the living room and the other for SD channels in my basement. The tv in the basement connects to the wall with a coax cable to receive the SD channels but i was looking to see if it is possible to convert the coax to the HDMI. I had gotten a new receiver to go with the surround sound speakers in the ceiling that i found when i moved in but the receiver does not take coax input only HDMI, RCA, and other cables. So the speakers are useless with the dish channels and can only use it for my ps4. Please any help is appreciated in getting a solution for Coax to HDMI or any other options that will allow me to get HD channels without renting out another dish box. Thank you

Why did you make five posts?

There is no way to do what you want.

Can the coax in the basement be connected to the dish? If so, then you can put another dish unit in the basement to connect to your receiver. You will have to rent another dish box, there is no way round it.

 

[Feras Kaid]

I thought I would get options posting in different forums.

I know about renting out another dish box for HD but if there is not option to convert coax to HDMI is there away to convert it to RCA so I can at least plug it in to my receiver and use my speakers?

 

[markw]

No. They are two entirely different formats.

What you are asking is like trying to find a converter to take an FM antenna and feed it directly to a speaker. You need a tuner and an amp in between.

 

[TLS Guy]

I thought I would get options posting in different forums.

I know about renting out another dish box for HD but if there is not option to convert coax to HDMI is there away to convert it to RCA so I can at least plug it in to my receiver and use my speakers?

You can not do that. The signal is coded with a proprietary code and only a Dish receiver can decode it. If you did find a way to decode it, it would be called theft of service.

If you want two Dish receivers you have to pay for them.

May be you should consider a streaming option for that location. I find most of what we watch now is Internet streamed. Is there a cable Internet service in the coax at that location?

 

[Feras Kaid]

No. They are two entirely different formats.

What you are asking is like trying to find a converter to take an FM antenna and feed it directly to a speaker. You need a tuner and an amp in between.

Like I said I am new two all this so could you please post a link of what that is.

 

[Feras Kaid]

You can not do that. The signal is coded with a proprietary code and only a Dish receiver can decode it. If you did find a way to decode it, it would be called theft of service.

If you want two Dish receivers you have to pay for them.

May be you should consider a streaming option for that location. I find most of what we watch now is Internet streamed. Is there a cable Internet service in the coax at that location?

What do you mean in cable internet service?

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Without going to details on why you can't do this, getting new Dish HD box with HDMI port is your only way to get surround sound.

 

[TLS Guy]

No. They are two entirely different formats.

What you are asking is like trying to find a converter to take an FM antenna and feed it directly to a speaker. You need a tuner and an amp in between.

I gather from his post, that he is a Dish subscriber. He does have a receiver, but wants to connect the receiver to the coax, which he can not do under any circumstances without another Dish box.

 

[TLS Guy]

What do you mean in cable internet service?

Well may be you should get rid of Dish, and use cable if that is available. Cable can and usually does provide TV and Internet service.

How are you connected to the Internet now, so you can post here?

 

[markw]

Like I said I am new two all this so could you please post a link of what that is.

I can't. There is no link because that device does not exist.

You don't seem to get that you need another Dish receiver, period, end of discussion.

 

[agarwalro]

If the receiver supports Audio Return Channel, you can try that. You'll only get 2.0 natively, but use a processing setting to get matrixed surround effects.

 

[Adam]

I don't know why some folks are making this so difficult - and, I'm pretty sure, getting it completely wrong. The coax running to the basement is already decoded by the Dish receiver and is sending an SD signal to the TV. If the TV has any audio outputs, those can be run to the receiver in the basement to get sound.

Feras, welcome to the forum! Does your basement TV have any audio outputs? If it has a digital audio output (probably an optical output), and if your receiver has that same style of digital input, that would work perfectly.

 

[Hobbit]

Helloo. I am new to all this so please help me out. I have dish with a single box for two tvs one with HD channels in the living room and the other for SD channels in my basement. The tv in the basement connects to the wall with a coax cable to receive the SD channels but i was looking to see if it is possible to convert the coax to the HDMI. I had gotten a new receiver to go with the surround sound speakers in the ceiling that i found when i moved in but the receiver does not take coax input only HDMI, RCA, and other cables. So the speakers are useless with the dish channels and can only use it for my ps4. Please any help is appreciated in getting a solution for Coax to HDMI or any other options that will allow me to get HD channels without renting out another dish box. Thank you

Here's a couple of options:

https://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hdhomerun/

Or you can look at something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Viewtv-Converter-Recording-Function-Composite/dp/B00GGVPKKC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1435071087&sr=1-1&keywords=dvr+for+cable+tv

There are other brands of the same types of devices.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Adam sounds like he has it spot on.

The original poster sounds like he is using a Dish receiver which offers a modulated (channel 3) output of the content. This can be played back on any television which has a built in NTSC tuner, as most still do.

If that's the case, then the OP should look to see if the TV he is feeding that signal to has audio outputs. Many TVs do, and that could be fed to his new A/V receiver.

If the TV does not have audio outputs, then something as simple as an old school NTSC tuner may do the trick for him.

Certainly, if this is a nice room, with a nice TV, and decent surround sound, then an additional Dish receiver makes a lot more sense.

I'm struggling to figure out how he properly got a coax feed from the main unit to a secondary location. That's not 'normal' wiring for coax in a home.