wheelman16
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Hi all,
I have a question concerning hook up of new HDTV in the bedroom. The front TV is hooked up via an HDMI cable from the cable box to the tv and picture quality is excellent and like others a coaxle cable runs to the rear of the MH. Can I attach the coaxle cable in the rear room directly to a new HD flat screen tv and if so will I lose much in the way of picture quality? Anyone have a better way? Thanks as always and HAPPY HOLIDAYS everyone.
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whem2fish
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thats the way mine is my tv in bed room is mounted above the foot of the bed with my small tv i really cant tell a difference. now at my house on a 52 inch plasma and a 36 inch lcd you can tell. i called direct and upgraded to hd. that said i have never saw a different way to upgrade the tv in the rv
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rexabbot
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You are not getting HD on rear tv. Coax does't carry HD.
How are greeting coax out of your HD satellite box?
You need a second box rear tv
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I would imagine that you need a HDMI cable from a HD cable/satellite box to the rear tv also.
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rgatijnet1
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The HDMI cable is used to prevent you from running more than one TV from each cable box. You cannot even put an HDMI splitter in the line and feed the signal to two TV's. Obviously coax can carry all of the HD information since that is what is used from your antenna to your cable box. It is within the cable box that the signal is changed and fed to an HDMI output. On some cable boxes you do have an S-video and a component video output that you can use to feed a second TV but it will not be HD. On some smaller TV's you cannot notice much difference between HD and standard broadcast so it may not make any difference for you.
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harleyman1340
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Besides not being able to pass a HD signal from you box to a tv with a coax cable, you are limited to 480i (480 lines of resolution interlaced) signal. HD television is 1080i or 720p. Your tv will be clear but not as much detail as a HD signal. With your new tv in the bedroom you should be able to get a HD signal from local stations with the antenna.
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rgatijnet1 wrote:The HDMI cable is used to prevent you from running more than one TV from each cable box. You cannot even put an HDMI splitter in the line and feed the signal to two TV's. Obviously coax can carry all of the HD information since that is what is used from your antenna to your cable box. It is within the cable box that the signal is changed and fed to an HDMI output. On some cable boxes you do have an S-video and a component video output that you can use to feed a second TV but it will not be HD. On some smaller TV's you cannot notice much difference between HD and standard broadcast so it may not make any difference for you.
1. They DO make Component and HDMI splitters to run multiple TV's from 1 source. Tiffin has used the system for 4 years.
2. The COAX cannot transmit HD signal from a source. But CAN transmit the Over the Air local HD sugnal and you will get HD from over the air signals. There is NO Coax output on Sat HD boxes, only on Cable systems. On Cable systems with coax OUTPUT, that cannot transmit HD signal, just SD signal to the TV. Doug
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rgatijnet1
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dougrainer wrote:rgatijnet1 wrote:The HDMI cable is used to prevent you from running more than one TV from each cable box. You cannot even put an HDMI splitter in the line and feed the signal to two TV's. Obviously coax can carry all of the HD information since that is what is used from your antenna to your cable box. It is within the cable box that the signal is changed and fed to an HDMI output. On some cable boxes you do have an S-video and a component video output that you can use to feed a second TV but it will not be HD. On some smaller TV's you cannot notice much difference between HD and standard broadcast so it may not make any difference for you.
1. They DO make Component and HDMI splitters to run multiple TV's from 1 source. Tiffin has used the system for 4 years.
2. The COAX cannot transmit HD signal from a source. But CAN transmit the Over the Air local HD sugnal and you will get HD from over the air signals. There is NO Coax output on Sat HD boxes, only on Cable systems. On Cable systems with coax OUTPUT, that cannot transmit HD signal, just SD signal to the TV. Doug
I do have an HDMI splitter, which I have tried, and it will NOT allow two TV's to run off of a single satellite box. I can run one TV or the other, but not both at the same time. What I mentioned about coax being able to carry the HD signal is exactly as I said. My Winegard SK-3005 HD satellite antenna is connected to my DirecTV box by a single COAX cable, so obviously all of the HD information is being carried from my dish to my DirecTV box. It is changed within the DirecTV box so that the only outputs are Component, S-video(neither of which are HD, and a single HDMI output.
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paulcardoza
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We have only SD via coax in the BR TV and don't really see the need for anything more. We use that TV sparingly, usually for the news before bed or such. For the little it's used, SD is fine for us.
If you are set on HD for the BR, a 2nd box would be your easiest option. Otherwise, you'll need to run a 2nd cable (HDMI or component) from the front to the BR.
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wheelman16
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Thanks so much for your replies, that clears things up pretty well. So I will probably replace the old tv in the rear BR and not expect quite the same picture quality but it will be much better than what I have now. Like someone mentioned, not that important anyway given the amount of time the rear tv is used verses the larger HD in the front.
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