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Here is a project which I was thinkig about since last couple of years
and finally
got it working last week.

I have a setup in the family room downstairs where I could watch
DirecTV HD
Tivo along with an international channel through non-HD DISH Network
receiver.
Then I decided to add another TV area upstairs, without getting another
DirecTV
HD Tivo or another DISH Network receiver. I had a DirecTV HD receiver
sitting
around so I decided to use it in the media room upstairs. My goal was
to watch
DirecTV HD independently upsatirs, along with access to DirecTV HD TiVo
recordings
with HiDef picture quality and its 5.1 digital audio, plus my DISH
channel.
I used Diplexer 4 times on same line and passed YPbCr video and Digital
audio
on 75ft long cables.

Five years ago, I had set of 5 of coax cable put in while my house was
under
construction, with wall plate of 5 coax in the family room going
upstairs to
master bed. There, I had another set of 5 coax put in (next to the 5s
from
downstairs) going into a media room upstairs. Currently, two wall
plates are
connected to each other in the masterbed with five RG-6 patch cables
(to connect
family room downstairs with media room upstairs).

I started with satellite and DISH Tv signal. I only had 4 satellite
cables to
work with, 3 from 3-LNB elliptical DirecTV dish and one from DISH
Network.

Using Diplexer RCA#D920 on the roof, I COMBINED one of the output of
DirecTV-3LNB
with off-air Antenna. Then fed the rest of two SAT outs of elliptical
DirecTV dish
into dual tuner HD TiVo receiver.

Then, Using Diplexer RCA#D920, I SPLITTED the diplexed line, taking
ANT-Out from
diplexer into TV antenna in of HD TiVo Receiver and also to the TV
antenna in of
DISH Network through a good old splitter.

Using Multi-switch in family room I then COMBINED the SAT-out from
previous
splitter AND the TV-out of a DISH Network Receiver !
and passed that diplexed line coax cable run number 5 of the wall
plate.
I used the Multi-switch in place of Combiner to block the 2 pairs of
Combiner-Splitter from interfering each other.

In the media room, I SPLITTED the diplexed line : SAT-out going into
2nd
DirecTV HD receiver and ANT-out going into TV for DISH Network and
off-air viewing.

With above setup I am not able to watch Off-Air digital channels in the
media room
when DISH Network is on, only when DISH is off I can watch Off-Air
upstairs, but
it really doesn't matter because I will probably never watch both
off-air and DISH
at the same time. Also, if someone downstairs would turn the DISH on,
my off-air
signal be gone upstairs. I could probably get a indoor Antenna to get
digital
off-air in media room.

OK now comes to HD Video signal distribution using Y-Pb-Cr triplets

In the family room, I splitted the component out from DirecTV HD using
Radioshack cat#150-1927 into two, one going into HD monitor and other
going
into wall connentions. I used three Female RCA to male F-Type
convertors to
connect component cables to female coaxial jacks on the wall plate. On
the
other end of 75ft cable run, I connected 3-coax of YPbCr into 2nd HD
monitor.

I used 4th coax on the wall plate for the audio. In the family room, I
connected the
optical-out from DirecTV HD TiVo to optical-in of AV reciever. Since,
there isn't
any digital coax out (only optical out) on my AV reciever, I used a
optical-to-
coax converter to feed the digital audio from AV reciever into that 4th
coax on the
wall plate. upstairs, I connected the digital coax from the wall plate
directly into
the digital-coax in of upstairs AV reciever. I used the 5th coax to get
satellite
signal from downstairs to media room, as described previously.

At the end, I connected the Y-Pb-Cr output from my AV Receiver to the
wall plate in the
family room through a regular 3-RCA selector switch. That selector will
send either
the HD from TiVo or the component out from AV Receiver. The component
out from AV
receiver distributes into two, using another component video splitter
from Radioshack,
one going into HD monitor other going into that 3-RCA switch. My AV
receiver has only
two component video in and both are occupied by two DVD changers.

Digital audio out from both DVD changers are already connected to the
AV Receiver.

Whatever audio comes out of AV Receiver, can also be heard upstairs in
digital 5.1,
either from DirectTV HD TiVo Receiver or from DVD changer. With that in
place, TiVo
and DVD can be watched independently either upstairs or downstairs
because the regular
audio outs (left/right audio) for both TiVo and DVD are directly
connected to the
HD monitor dowstairs.

RESULTS:
There is a slight signal loss in the digital audio which I can easily
compensate by
jacking up the volume of AV reciever in the media room. But the HD
video quality
is flawless.

FUTURE:
I can take the whole above setup from media room into masterbed. Or
just
duplicate it in the master bedroom (with my wife's permission), but
then I would
have to add another coax for satellite signal for the 3rd DirecTV box,
which is physically
doable in my case.

Please add comments and inputs to improve my setup, but no emails
please.

Multiple component video/satellite distribution, with digita

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