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Originally Posted by Smiley
I did some research. You cannot use a splitter, it has to be a modulator. A modulator is powered from the receiver and has to be the correct type for your system. But it does look like my dish is able to have a third coax connection 
I got an RF modulator to convert component cables to coax. It works but my office TV has waves showing. The ATI TV card will only display B&W images  So I know it is a week signal vs. the signal from the old receiver output. I put a coax signal amp in the line but nothing improved. So I'm unable to record TV to my PC, unless I want B&W. I've been putting the UFC and WEC fights on DVDs for a son of mine that does not have the channels. |
You have a 3lnb sat dish right? If not we can convert it to a 3 LNB cause I have the stuff in my garage somewhere, I hope lol ill check tomarrow. Though to run a seperate line I believe you would have to pay the extra $6/month for a second reciever.
hmm have you checked
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for any other possabilities? Supposedly the reason Directv stopped using coax because they figure you have an HDTV to connect to so no need for it. just what I was told is all. to bad there isnt an HDMI to Coax. Also smiley did you try switching the RGB wires around to different ports? I know if you remove I think its the blue wire you will get black and white picture. Could be the modulator itself is bad cause I wouldnt thing signal loss would give you black and white though I dont know.
*edit apparently in the future you will be allowed to view tv over the ethernet but currently it doesnt work. Wonder if there is a workaround for being able to stream over ethernet.