Help With Splitting Insight HD Box Signal

nightal · 02-27-2010, 01:56 PM

Ok OK I know this has probably been brought up a million times already but please humor me and try to help this dumb 'ol boy to see if I can do what I am wanting to do. First off I have a HD Insight cable DVR box upstairs in my den to on LCD tv that I watch primarly. I have a second LCD down in my basement that is a HD 52" that we watch BluRay movies on and I do have cable down there but I am not getting a good clear crisp picture on it. I wanted to see if I could possibly split the HDMI signal from there and send it down to my other TV and watch full blown HD down there. I do remember years ago they used to have a thing out called the rabbit that was a tower that you could set in another room or basement and then attach a receiver box up to the cable box or tv and you could point a remote control at the tower like down in the basement and click it and make the channel change up on the remote in the other room or upstairs. I was hoping to do this so I wont have to rent another cable box just to watch HD cable down in the basement also.

Lee Stewart · 02-27-2010, 04:07 PM

Hi and welcome to HDF

You can send HDMI wireless but as you can see, the cost is very high:

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5990

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4318

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=8255

Or you could save some money if you could install a CAT 6 cable bewteen the STB and the basement HDTV:

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=8081

And if the cost was acceptable to you, I don't know how you would control the STB from the basement when the actual STB is floors above it.

Much cheaper just to get a basic HD STB from your cable co. for the basement HDTV.

Lee Stewart · 03-01-2010, 01:37 PM

^^^^

On second thought - you might be able to control the STB by using an RF based universal remote control and at the STB have an RF to IR converter.

02-27-2010, 01:56 PM	#1
nightal What is HD? Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 2	Help With Splitting Insight HD Box Signal Ok OK I know this has probably been brought up a million times already but please humor me and try to help this dumb 'ol boy to see if I can do what I am wanting to do. First off I have a HD Insight cable DVR box upstairs in my den to on LCD tv that I watch primarly. I have a second LCD down in my basement that is a HD 52" that we watch BluRay movies on and I do have cable down there but I am not getting a good clear crisp picture on it. I wanted to see if I could possibly split the HDMI signal from there and send it down to my other TV and watch full blown HD down there. I do remember years ago they used to have a thing out called the rabbit that was a tower that you could set in another room or basement and then attach a receiver box up to the cable box or tv and you could point a remote control at the tower like down in the basement and click it and make the channel change up on the remote in the other room or upstairs. I was hoping to do this so I wont have to rent another cable box just to watch HD cable down in the basement also.

02-27-2010, 04:07 PM	#2
Lee Stewart Behold - the future! Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 27,414	Hi and welcome to HDF You can send HDMI wireless but as you can see, the cost is very high: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=5990 http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4318 http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=8255 Or you could save some money if you could install a CAT 6 cable bewteen the STB and the basement HDTV: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=8081 And if the cost was acceptable to you, I don't know how you would control the STB from the basement when the actual STB is floors above it. Much cheaper just to get a basic HD STB from your cable co. for the basement HDTV. Last edited by Lee Stewart; 02-27-2010 at 04:11 PM.

03-01-2010, 01:37 PM	#3
Lee Stewart Behold - the future! Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 27,414	^^^^ On second thought - you might be able to control the STB by using an RF based universal remote control and at the STB have an RF to IR converter.