Splitting Direct TV?

Any of you guys out there split a Direct TV connection? I was hoping to split the connection in my basement over to a 2nd t.v. in my bar area…also in the basement. I’m fine if they have to be on the station…just want to know if any of you have done it and if there are any subtle tricks or anything?

I assume they would be the same thing, but I have Dish Network, and I split my signal coming out of my receiver one to my kids’ room, and the other to our bedroom. Works perfect, you do have to watch the same channel on both like you expected, but I can tell you that it works. As far as tricks, I would assume a regular old splitter would work, in fact I watched the guy install ours use a splitter coming in. I used a signal boosting splitter I had laying around from when we had cable and don’t have any problems.

Slopster,

When they installed Dish up here at Everts the cable from the antenna goes into a booster/spitter and then goes the 8 or so campers. This will work the same way on the tv side of the box too.

No tricks, just make sure your connectors are on the cable ends correctly if you make your own cables.

Have 3 tv’s in the bar room split and they all work fine, splitter does not cost much radio shack has them.

What sort of outgoing cable are you splitting? I assume coax?

Shouldn’t have any issues splitting an outgoing coaxial signal from the receiver with a normal splitter. Like mentioned, a booster might be needed for very long runs or lots of splits… Probably not necessary for what you are talking about. I split an OTA signal from an antenna in my attic to 3 to 5 locations… I use a booser splitter for this.

You can also split HDMI signals or component signals as well, but that requires just a little more hardware. Check out amazon for HMDI splitters, switchers, and/or long and cheap HDMI cables if thats what you want. I bought a 50 foot HDMI cable from Amazon last year for under $30 and ran that to my bar from a back storeroom. Picture quality is awesome, no noticable loss even with the long run. I see you can now order it for under $20…. Amazing. Sorry Best Buy, there is no reason that a 6 foot cable should cost $70. (OK, rant over… )

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QKKAPE/ref=oss_product

My dish box will allow me to run both a component and HDMI signal from the receiver box at the same time (2 out HD signals from the box) — and view that signal on both TV’s simultaneously (same channel on each TV, but both HD compatible). Not all boxes will do this, but some of the newer ones will.

Splitting a signal is pretty simple, though. I would assume you shouldn’t have a problem doing so.

I’m not really an expert, but if you run into problems, feel free to PM me. Should be a snap, though.

Mike