ok sattelite dudes help me out ...

[Bingo]

at my dad's place in BC.

He has a duel tuner HD receiver in his bedroom. one feed goes straight to the tv in his room, the other routes back to the furnace room where it's split and then arrives in the kitchen for a SD smaller tv.

in the basement he has an old HD receiver into an HD tv, but the receiver is not a PVR.

ran a line out of the furnace room (basement) to the HD tv in the basement but it didn't work. Nadda.

Brought the tv from the kitchen downstairs and popped the cable in the back (same line) and no problem.

What up?

both Toshibas. The 65" is a good 7 years old. The kitchen tv is newer.

Thoughts?

[Hanni]

Are these 3 separate lines from the dish for the 3 tvs? I don't think you can use a standard cable splitter on a sattelite system. The newer dish's have 3 or 4 outputs, with Shaw Direct they replaced the old head (receiver on the end of the dish arm) for free for me, so that I could get 4 lines in.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by Bingo

ran a line out of the furnace room (basement) to the HD tv in the basement but it didn't work. Nadda.

Are we talking Bell? And are we talking coax cable?

My guess- the Bell receiver upstairs is set to broadcast on channel 45 VHF, and the HDTV is set to receive channel 45 UHF.

VHF is like Shaw cable
UHF is over the air signals.

Bell receivers can output either UHF or VHF; but the TV's input must be set to "Cable" to get VHF; and "Air" to get UHF.

So basically it's like you are trying to get to The Fan960 with an FM radio be setting it to 96.0.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Are we talking Bell? And are we talking coax cable?

My guess- the Bell receiver upstairs is set to broadcast on channel 45 VHF, and the HDTV is set to receive channel 45 UHF.

VHF is like Shaw cable
UHF is over the air signals.

Bell receivers can output either UHF or VHF; but the TV's input must be set to "Cable" to get VHF; and "Air" to get UHF.

So basically it's like you are trying to get to The Fan960 with an FM radio be setting it to 96.0.

you nailed it.

had to put the tv on channel 75.

Thanks Ken!