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Re: HD signal distribution throughout the house

said by Camelot One:

They start at what, $1,000?

Well $800 if you look around a bit.

The OP did not say what his budget was and QAM/ATSC modulators are not cheap.
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said by b10010011:

Well $800 if you look around a bit.

You could rent 3 STB for 4 years before you'd spend $800

The OP did not say what his budget was and QAM/ATSC modulators are not cheap.

too bad DirecTV uses neither QAM nor ATSC

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said by 88615298:

The OP did not say what his budget was and QAM/ATSC modulators are not cheap.

too bad DirecTV uses neither QAM nor ATSC

A QAM/ATSC modulator would take the output from a DirecTV receiver and feed it over the house coax to the other TVs, which would then "tune" the channel just as if it was OTA. It's the HD version of those old coax modulators that fed a 480 line RCA input over coax on channel 3 or 4.

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said by Camelot One:

said by 88615298:

The OP did not say what his budget was and QAM/ATSC modulators are not cheap.

too bad DirecTV uses neither QAM nor ATSC

A QAM/ATSC modulator would take the output from a DirecTV receiver and feed it over the house coax to the other TVs, which would then "tune" the channel just as if it was OTA. It's the HD version of those old coax modulators that fed a 480 line RCA input over coax on channel 3 or 4.

I was looking for something along those lines, just preferably less than about $400.
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too bad DirecTV uses neither QAM nor ATSC

No but the HDTV's the OP wants to send signal over coax to receive QAM/ATSC so that is the type of modulator that will be required to send an HD signal over coax to the the RF input of these TV's