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[BD66]

I am starting look for A/V receivers for our basement home theater when it dawned on me, I just upgraded our Dishnetwork Sat receiver to a dual tuner. The Sat receiver is in our main level system where I have my 5.1 system. The Sat receiver has a coaxial backfeed that goes to my TV in the basement. My question is how do I hook up an A/V receiver that doesn't have a sat receiver actually attached to it or shouldn't it matter as long as I hook up the proper video cables from a A/V receiver to the TV.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I am starting look for A/V receivers for our basement home theater when it dawned on me, I just upgraded our Dishnetwork Sat receiver to a dual tuner. The Sat receiver is in our main level system where I have my 5.1 system. The Sat receiver has a coaxial backfeed that goes to my TV in the basement. My question is how do I hook up an A/V receiver that doesn't have a sat receiver actually attached to it or shouldn't it matter as long as I hook up the proper video cables from a A/V receiver to the TV.

Whatever you have hooked up in the main system is what you need in the basement to get video and audio through your receiver. RF video will not work, as far as I know.

 

[BD66]

http://www.smarthome.com/76540.html
I found this neat little gadget I thought maybe I could use this at my TV2 AV out and wirelessly send it to my new receiver in the basement to my AV IN. Think it will work?

 

[mtrycrafts]

http://www.smarthome.com/76540.html
I found this neat little gadget I thought maybe I could use this at my TV2 AV out and wirelessly send it to my new receiver in the basement to my AV IN. Think it will work?

I am not sure as you want to transmit the raw RF coming out of your cable box upstairs, not the processed and separated video and audio I believe this product at the link will do. Hope someone has better insights to this.

 

[xboxweasel]

Assuming the audio is transmitted via a coaxial cable, why don't you use a Y splitter and send the audio signal from you satellite receiver to both A/V receivers? Then it is just a matter of selecting the desired input on the receiver.

 

[BD66]

http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/TechPortal/content/tech/receiver/rollover/625.shtml
I thought I would give you a look at the backside of the Sat receiver. I find its better to see than try to explain. as far as the coaxial yes I do have sound to tv2 but if I am going to add an A/v receiver I would want the sound to come through the the a/v receiver and not the tv and I don't believe you can hook an F connector to an A/v receiver. I would never be able to run an RCA cord from one to the other. I have emailed the Co. at the other link to see what they think also I think I might have issues with interference from cordless phones I have both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz.

 

[xboxweasel]

It looks like the unit has 2 zones. Home Distribution 1 + 2.

For the upstairs system use home distribution zone 1 connections.
Connect S-video to receiver.
Connect Digital Audio out to receiver.
Connect a video output from receiver to TV. Depending on receiver this could be composite, s-video or component.

For the downstairs system use home distribution zone 2 connections.
Run composite video and L/R audio signals to receiver. Connect a video output from receiver to TV. Depending on receiver this could be composite, s-video or component.

With this configuration, the upstairs will have better video and sound quality. If you prefer that for the basement then switch above suggestions.

coax (worst) < composite < s-video < component (best)

 

[BD66]

Yep I have all that hooked up on the upstairs tv. The problem is not having a way of making the L,R,Video run to the downstairs tv. The room is all rocked. I figured the only way to do this is wireless.

 

[xboxweasel]

I see. Have you tried running the cables via the ducts? You must have your furnace/central air in the basement!!! You could always drill a hole in the floor.

I have to drill a 1" hole through a hardwood floor to bring up 4 circuits for my setup. Plus cut a small 4"x4" hole in the wall downstairs in order to fish the cables over to my fuse box.

 

[mtrycrafts]

http://tech.dishnetwork.com/departmental_content/TechPortal/content/tech/receiver/rollover/625.shtml
I thought I would give you a look at the backside of the Sat receiver. I find its better to see than try to explain. as far as the coaxial yes I do have sound to tv2 but if I am going to add an A/v receiver I would want the sound to come through the the a/v receiver and not the tv and I don't believe you can hook an F connector to an A/v receiver. I would never be able to run an RCA cord from one to the other. I have emailed the Co. at the other link to see what they think also I think I might have issues with interference from cordless phones I have both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz.

OK.
I think that now you should try that RF signal transmitter you posted above but find out about the return policy. I don't see why it would not work. But, From what I see on the two links I think you will have no choice but send the composite video and analog audio that should contain Dolby prologic signals. You are out of the loop on 5.1 to the basement unless you use section 1 and optical cable. The one optical is the only digital out I see.

 

[nova]

I am starting look for A/V receivers for our basement home theater when it dawned on me, I just upgraded our Dishnetwork Sat receiver to a dual tuner. The Sat receiver is in our main level system where I have my 5.1 system. The Sat receiver has a coaxial backfeed that goes to my TV in the basement. My question is how do I hook up an A/V receiver that doesn't have a sat receiver actually attached to it or shouldn't it matter as long as I hook up the proper video cables from a A/V receiver to the TV.

I have a similar situation for my bedroom. What I did was run the coax to my TV, then used RCA cables from my TV output to the reciever. Place your DishNetwork receiver with your main HT gear and run the coax to your secondary system.