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How to connect dish hd receiver?

How do you connect a HD TV when you don't have a receiver?

  • I just bought a 46" LCD HD TV for my living room but I don't have a receiver in th Living room (it's in the bedroom) to connect the HDMI cable to ( I have Dish Network). How to get my HD channels to be in HD without the cable?

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    By "receiver" I assume you men Dish network receiver (not an A/V receiver). Assuming you have a TV in the bedroom you can either use an HDMI splitter or switch (so you can connect the TV in the bedroom with one HDMI cable and the TV in the living room with a longer second HDMI cable) or get as second receiver for the living room. The difference is that with a second receiver you can watch different programs on the two TVs, while with a switch or splitter you must watch the same program (splitter) or any program on either TV (but not at the same time). If you choose to use a second cable and splitter the cable should be no longer than absolutely necesssary (and under 50 feet as a maximum). If you use a long cable the larger the gauge of wire the better. See the link for sources.

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You don't need a receiver if your not using separate passive speakers that require an amplifier to power them. As long as the TV itself has built in speakers, you can connect your dish receivers HDM output to the hdmi input on the TV and your done. You may have to go into both the dish receivers output setting to select the appropriate output setting and the TVS input to select the hmdi's input setting. Then just select the corresponding input on your tv and you will have both audio and video coming from the TV. Edit: oh your referring to a cable box receiver not an audio video receiver. Got ya, you didn't clarify that. You can certainly share a cable box by using a splitter but would have to watch the same channels on both TV's. In order to watch different programs you would need another cable box receiver in the living room with the living room tv. Kevin 40 years high end audio video specialist

Kevin L

You confused us because a 'receiver' usually means a 5.1 AV Receiver. You describe a Satellite receiver. Yes - you need a second Dish receiver or upgrade to the "Hopper" that Dish just started advertising.

Grumpy Mac

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