bringing directv in to the house????

[whikx250]

When directv is wired and brought into your home are they able to connect it straight into an hdmi on the receiver or does it only go to the sat. input?
(if so...is one better than the other?)

Thanks!!

 

[BMXTRIX]

When directv is wired and brought into your home are they able to connect it straight into an hdmi on the receiver or does it only go to the sat. input?
(if so...is one better than the other?)

Thanks!!

DirecTV is not brought into the house.

A signal from a satellite dish pointing at the sky is brought into your home, and those signals can then be connected to DirecTV receivers. Their satellite boxes that are similar in size and nature to cable boxes.

The output of the DirecTV boxes can be plugged into your A/V receiver, etc. and the various models of satellite boxes have different functions such as standard TV, HDTV, with and without a hard drive (DVR) to record TV shows.

 

[whikx250]

BUT...can it be plugged into the A/V receivers hdmi input?

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

If it has an HDMI output. Most modern converter boxes have several different outputs. Seems like a question you should be asking them.

Our U-verse box has HDMI output.

 

[10010011]

If you have a Direct TV receiver with an HDMI output then you could hook that HDMI to a receiver that has HDIM inputs to get the digital audio and AV switching just like you would a cable box with HDMI or a DVD player with HDMI.

 

[bandphan]

sat dish coaxial out-coaxial cable>dtv reciever>dtv recv hdmi output>AV receiver hmdi input>AV recv HDMI>TV hdmi input.....No feed from the dish to the AV Receiver, it does not have a sat tuner, will not work as your asking. There are tvs with the built in tuner but no av receivers.

 

[BMXTRIX]

BUT...can it be plugged into the A/V receivers hdmi input?

'it' - You aren't defining 'it'. I said that you bring the Satellite signal from outside into your home on cables and those cables MUST go to converter boxes. They do not go to a receiver, to a TV, to your DVD player, to your VCR, or to ANYTHING else. They first, above all else, go to a DirecTV satellite receiver, which takes the raw satellite signal and converts it to a standard format that your receiver or TV, VCR, etc. is capable of dealing with.

It is 100% dependent on the model of DirecTV receiver you have in each room that decides what signal comes out of it. If you want HDMI, then buy a DirecTV receiver that has HDMI output. If you want something else, buy a receiver that has 'something else' whatever that something else is.

What are you trying to do, and what are you confused about?

I'm struggling to think of a real world analogy to what needs to happen... Perhaps like buying tires for your car. The tires don't make the car go, it's the engines job, but, it sounds like you are asking if you can just put the tires under the car, even without an engine in the car, and expecting the car to go. The tires are the satellite feed into your home - but the satellite box is the engine that actually does something with that satellite signal.

 

[moreira85]

'it' - You aren't defining 'it'. I said that you bring the Satellite signal from outside into your home on cables and those cables MUST go to converter boxes. They do not go to a receiver, to a TV, to your DVD player, to your VCR, or to ANYTHING else. They first, above all else, go to a DirecTV satellite receiver, which takes the raw satellite signal and converts it to a standard format that your receiver or TV, VCR, etc. is capable of dealing with.

It is 100% dependent on the model of DirecTV receiver you have in each room that decides what signal comes out of it. If you want HDMI, then buy a DirecTV receiver that has HDMI output. If you want something else, buy a receiver that has 'something else' whatever that something else is.

What are you trying to do, and what are you confused about?

I'm struggling to think of a real world analogy to what needs to happen... Perhaps like buying tires for your car. The tires don't make the car go, it's the engines job, but, it sounds like you are asking if you can just put the tires under the car, even without an engine in the car, and expecting the car to go. The tires are the satellite feed into your home - but the satellite box is the engine that actually does something with that satellite signal.

i think he simply wants to know if Direct TV receiver boxes typically come with an HDMI output.

 

[bandphan]

i think he wants to run from the dish to the avr

 

[markw]

I think he should clarify exactly what he wants and expects.

"It" has to go through a Direct TV set-top receiver box, which is analagous to a cable box, period.

 

[Midcow2]

Dish Network does ....

i think he simply wants to know if Direct TV receiver boxes typically come with an HDMI output.

come with a direct HDMI 1.3 interface so I assume that DirecTV would also. If not, then a good reason to change from DirecTV to Dish Network.

I watch 95-99% DVDs and DishNetwork. My installation is very clean three HDMI cables.

One HDMI from DishNetwork to AVR
One HDMI from DVD to AVR
One HDMI cable from AVR to TV

High quality sound and high quality picture. Alos, simple to use for the non-Audiophiles in your household!

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

I have a question while we wait for the OP to give us further details.

I have an old TV that only has a coaxial cable input and the older style Red,White, and Yellow inputs. I'm currently running a coaxial cable to my TV from my converter box and the sound (white and yellow?) to my Receiver. If I ran the HDMI to my reciever from the converter box, would I get superior sound?

 

[Midcow2]

I have a question while we wait for the OP to give us further details.

I have an old TV that only has a coaxial cable input and the older style Red,White, and Yellow inputs. I'm currently running a coaxial cable to my TV from my converter box and the sound (white and yellow?) to my Receiver. If I ran the HDMI to my reciever from the converter box, would I get superior sound?

The sound left (white) right(red) is via RCA and the video is compostie (Yellow).

The HDMI from the convertor box will probably provide richer sound 5.1 in most cases. From the red/white RCA only getting stereo input and your AVR is enhancing the sound effect but is not receiving 5 channel input directly.

So the answer is YES

 

[bandphan]

doesnt the coverter have spdif out? just run that?

 

[whikx250]

sorry for the confusing scenario...let me clarify my question.

I was assuming there was a cable ran from the dish to the sat. tuner. Then from that point im sure new equipment will allow me to run hdmi from the sat tuner to the a/v receiver. Is that correct?

Sorry again for mt greeness

 

[BMXTRIX]

sorry for the confusing scenario...let me clarify my question.

I was assuming there was a cable ran from the dish to the sat. tuner. Then from that point im sure new equipment will allow me to run hdmi from the sat tuner to the a/v receiver. Is that correct?

Sorry again for mt greeness

If you don't currently own a satellite receiver, and you want HDTV, then you can get a model with HDMI output on it and run that from your satellite receiver into your TV directly, or if you have a surround A/V receiver, you would go to that.

Typical, as stated by a forum member above: Dish outside of house has cables coming inside into your satellite receiver... From there, HDMI out of the satellite receiver into your A/V receiver. From there, HDMI out of your A/V receiver into your TV.

The receiver you buy MUST be an HD receiver - not all of them are. If you are going with DirecTV then it's one of these models:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPageNR.jsp?assetId=P4380062
or
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/contentPageNR.jsp?assetId=P4380066

 

[jeffsg4mac]

To get all the HD channels you must also have a 5-LNB dish as well as a HD receiver. The old 3-LNB dishes will not pick up all the sats.