Remoteing HD TV from Satellite Box

I have a Dish Network box installed in my living room along with my 46" Sony Bravo LCD panel. My wife would like to mount a smaller LCD panel in the dining room slaved from the other setup. I have a free HDMI output from the satellite box because I am using component video for the Sony TV which has only one HDMI input (taken by a BlueRay player). So my first option is to use the available HDMI, or secondly to split off the component video (somehow).

Now the problem: I need to bring this output to a TV located 25 feet away, possibly needing 75 to 100 foot cable run (to hide it). I want to use either 75 ohm cable or cat 5.

Are there any inexpensive media converters available to do this?

Also, we could also use a new TV in the bedroom, so a solution that feeds multiple TV's would be nice if not too expensive.

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You can easily split the rca component output. for 25', the signal degradation should be tolerable.

It is also possible to run a long run of hdmi and to run it over cat 5. Google for "hdmi extender"

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AZ Nomad

On a sunny day (Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:26:58 -0500) it happened RFI-EMI-GUY wrote in :

In theory, yes, in theory, the whole setup is wrong. If the settop box has ethernet output, then the setup, for best efficiency, is likely this: Settop box receiver -> ethernet - wireless access point WiFi.

All other TVs on an other wireless box connected with ethernet to one of those mediaplayer boxes. Or maybe each TV connected to something like this:

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No cables between rooms.

With cables maybe this:

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If your Dish Network box has no ethernet output you are out of luck.

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Jan Panteltje

I use this...

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What I like about it is that is has automatic "priority" switching... cable box on, that's routed to the video outputs; turn on DVD player, it's routed to video outputs... one remote does all.

Besides several video formats, it also has a built-in modulator, so I use the existing RG-6 to pipe great room content to all other sets in the house... each can choose cable as a source or tune to channel 4 and watch what's playing on the great room DVD player.

(I notch out channel 4 on the incoming feed, and insert my own channel

4 into an input on my ChannelPlus distribution amplifier.) ...Jim Thompson
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Jim Thompson

Your budget needs to be near $1000 for such a device. If you are against such an expenditure and think that some cheap Rat Shack POS box can do it, you are in the dark.

First off, such a device needs to break the HDCP compliance rules to even exist.

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Son of a Sea Cook

NTSC standard def over coax sucks.

Note where he stated that he wants to move HD signals.

You do not do that over an analog RF TV channel repeater link, idiot.

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Son of a Sea Cook

Apparently rules are made to be broken....

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Good site, they may have all the parts to do this right from an HD source.

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On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:25:20 -0500) it happened RFI-EMI-GUY wrote in :

Bit steep price for a simple splitter 263$89 don't you think?

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Jan Panteltje

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Doable/been done, hard to find and expensive.

You can buy HDMI-FO cables, for example:

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Then again how much is your time worth?

HDMI splitters, you are on your own.

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Verify that both the HDMI and composite outputs work at the same time.

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miso

good point, I will do that

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