Bill Kane
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The question is fishing cables in an existing house's living room wall for the future.
I plan to have my hi-fi store tech go into the attic to wire up my surrounds. While he's there, I cud prewire for satellite later. But I dont plan on looking at HDTVs for a year.
For satellite, I prefer Dish to DTV. As I understand it, Dish/Echostar requires two dishes, one for the HD bird, yes? (But Echostar is spozed to put up a new sat in the near future, right? and that might mean just one dish?
Anyway, to prewire from the attic into the house, how many runs of RG6 -- 4 or 6. And do I want RG6 Quad. Do installers use RG59? Are all of these cables terminated with F connectors?
(edit: I dont think DSS is the correct term in my header, but you get the idea)
I plan to have my hi-fi store tech go into the attic to wire up my surrounds. While he's there, I cud prewire for satellite later. But I dont plan on looking at HDTVs for a year.
For satellite, I prefer Dish to DTV. As I understand it, Dish/Echostar requires two dishes, one for the HD bird, yes? (But Echostar is spozed to put up a new sat in the near future, right? and that might mean just one dish?
Anyway, to prewire from the attic into the house, how many runs of RG6 -- 4 or 6. And do I want RG6 Quad. Do installers use RG59? Are all of these cables terminated with F connectors?
(edit: I dont think DSS is the correct term in my header, but you get the idea)