CONNECTING TV to Dish Receiver?

Question

I have an older Olevia tv. It is a 37 inch tv without the hd converter box built into the tv, it is just a monitor. Model 337.

I have been watching it on my HD receiver in the den but I bought a new Panny plasma (great tv!) and I moved my Olevia to my bedroom and tried to hook it up to the standard def receiver from DISH.

My tv does not have a RG6 cable inlet at the back of the tv, odd I know. Normally I would run the cable to the DISH receiver and from the receiver to the tv but can't do that without a cable inlet. I am currently using RCA cables ( I don't want to go to the store and buy a new HDMI cable either ) but when I turned on the tv all I see is the satellite picture on the tv saying that it is initailizing satellite 110, 129 and doing all the tests.

It never finishes , it just continues to cycle thru.

I called DISH and the guy told me I had to use the Receiver I am currently using ONLY in the previous bedroom and not in the room I have it in now. I think he is wrong.

He told me I have to go to Radio Shack and get a box that would go between the tv and the DISH receiver and it costs 10 bucks or so.

Is it necessary, or do I have to use HDMI or is there something else I can try with the connections on my tv. I tried component cables but that did not help either.

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

if the tv is real old and doesn't have a in for the cable

you could go to radio shack and explain your problem //

if you have rca inlets and its a good distance from the box it is useless to run the cables over 12 feet

also your receiver for dish must also be able to be used in 2 rooms

also it takes a good 20 minutes for it to cycle through the tests

if you have the protection that they offer for dish in case anything goes wrong.. request a technician to come out and take a look at it

or you could be better of getting a new tv and use that one for video games

Answer 2

Dish Network has a number of receivers that offer two independent tuners (and, possibly, a third for over-the-air TV viewing). An example of this is the ViP 622 receiver I have in my media room.. that has one OTA tuner, two satellite tuners, and a PVR function. If you use this stand-alone, you can record one or two shows while watching another live, or record 2 or 3 while watching a recorded show... pretty slick. But there's also a second video output, which is actually RF modulated (like regular analog television) over your choice of UHF channels. This allows you to run an antenna cable from your Dish Network receiver to the antenna input on another TV in another room... it's a wired connection. As for remote, the receiver can accept the same kind of R/C commands either over conventional infrared (for same-room use) or over a UHF radio signal. You get one of each remote control with this kind of receiver. You can set up the receiver to act as a dual-tuner unit, in which case both remotes do the same thing. Or, you can essentially split it up into two separate receivers, each with a single tuner (and I guess you get fight over the OTA tuner.. broadcast is so weak where I live, there are only a couple of channels that come in well, so it's never actually come up). In this case, the IR unit controls the main video output, and the UHF unit controls the RF video output. I have had very good experience with Dish Network. Like any pay TV service, you can certainly pay quite a bit if you get everything, but I have very rarely had any problems. Their early PVRs were pretty bad, but the ViP 622 (and presumably, any current models) are very well designed and pretty much "just work"... and I own two TiVos, so I am comparing this to TiVo, which is kind of the "gold standard" for PVRs (high definition TiVo really isn't an option for satellite users, anyway).

Answer 3

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