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DIRECTV HD SIGNAL QUALITY WHEN HOMERUN ON RG-6 COAX

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7/15/09 at 12:35pm
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Can RG-6 Coax provide DirectTV1080 HD quality picture to HDTV's when distributed through a modulator?

I only have (1) RG-6 Hard Run to each TV Outlet in each room.  How can I accomplish DVR operation to each TV location?

Thank you for any advise you can offer.

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7/15/09 at 2:12pm
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Not easily & cheaply, at least not at this time.  You'd need TVs with built-in QAM tuners, plus a very expensive device that does HD-MPEG encoding + QAM modulation.  There is a company, http://www.bocsco.com , that is supposedly working on a $1k-ish solution but as of now still vaporware.

Even with this, you have the issue of which TVs get fed from which/how many DVRs, have to figure out how many simultaneous users to support from how many boxes without them stepping on each other.

The normal way to do this now is have the RG-6 all go to a central location with a multiswitch, multiswitch hooked up to the LNBs on the satellite dish(es).  Then put DVR at each TV location.
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7/16/09 at 4:37am
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At least with a single run of RG-6 to each room you can use the dual tuner functionality if you use DirecTV's Single Wire Multi-Switch (SWM) equipment.

 

I am a DirecTV subscriber and use the HR10-250, HR20 and HR22 high def DVR's in my system.

 

-Robert

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7/16/09 at 6:40am
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David,

If you can wait a few months, I believe DirecTV will have a solution for you.  There may be other options to do it sooner.  Take a look at dbstalk.com for more info.
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