Satellite to projector hook up (1 Viewer)

[keith brown]

I have a dish satellite system with the receiver in my bedroom that feeds to my television in my family room via a coax cable (the receiver handles 2 televisions). I would like to add a projector in my family room but am unsure how this would hook up to the coax cable. Is there some sort of conversion?

I would really prefer not to re-wire my house because the rooms are at opposite ends of the house. Thanks in advance for your input and assistance.

 

[Robert_J]

The conversion box would be anything with an analog tuner like a VCR. It will convert the channel 3/4 output of the satellite receiver to composite video.

The problem I see is trying to display a standard definition signal (bad) that has been transmitted via RF (worse) at a projector sizes. I use a projector and a 103" screen. DVD and high def look amazing. Standard def channels are barely watchable at that size. The compression artifacts are easily visible. If you are watching sports you can't even read the numbers on the plays jerseys. I can't even imagine sending the signal to the projector via RF.

-Robert

 

[Lew Crippen]

Welcome to the forum Keith.

I also have a Dish receiver—but mine is set up in exactly the opposite fashion. My receiver is in my back room and I run component to my display, with the RF output to my bedroom TV. Although this display is HD, it is only 30” so the picture quality is acceptable (I can’t get HD to this set of course).

With your receiver in its current location, you will have to run RG6 from your bedroom to your family room in any case, so why not relocate the receiver to the family room and run the RG6 to your bedroom for that TV. The only real change you will need to make is to change the dish/receiver RG6 run from your bedroom to your family room.

This may seem like a bit of work, but the long term results will make it worth the effort.

Robert is on the money as to watching satellite SD very big display. So if you don’t have HD from Dish yet, upgrade to the HD receiver when you make the change.

 

[Jim Mcc]

Is your projector HD? What you're proposing will look terrible. You need to get a separate HD receiver for projector. I have my 720p projector hooked up to HD satellite and my OTA antenna. Movies and football games look great.

 

[Lew Crippen]

One more thing: you can probably run RG6 from your dish to a receiver in your family room. The (from the receiver’s RF output, run more RG6 right back up the same channel to the roof to the satellite. Now splice that RG6 to the one that goes down to your bedroom and run that to that TV.

Now use component connections from the relocated receiver to the projector. At least that won’t look as bad as an RF connection.

But as Jim suggests, get an HD receiver. This will make you really happy.