Here's what I have. I've got a family room downstairs with one Direct TV satellite receiver, and another receiver in the upstairs family room. What I want to do is to run multiple lines from the receiver downstairs to an additional 3 tv's (plus my wide-screen of which it's hooked up to now by an S-video line), and run the satellite receiver that's upstairs to an additional 3 tv's as well. I've purchased a
4-way distribution amplifier as a test pilot for the downstairs line as well as a diplexer. My thought process was that I could bring the satellite line out of the receiver and into the 4-way amplifier, and then run 4 lines out of that into each individual tv. While watching channel 3 on each of my tv's, all of the tv's should pick up the one channel being watched from the satellite receiver. I also purchased the diplexer (test pilot as well) from Best Buy as one of the associates suggested that I could run the 'rabbit style' antenna into one side of the diplexer, and the satellite line into the other (this requiring a diplexer for each individual tv). According to plan, if I was watching channel 3 I would pick up the satellite signal and if I was watching any other channel it would be a standard antenna feed (letting the family have the option of watching other local channels without having to watch what the original tv was watching). Keep in mind that I do pay the additional monthly fees for the local channels. Nothing has gone as planned. I've had the Direct TV for over a year now, and I wanted to install satellite on all of these TV's before I finished the rest of my basement. A few questions:What am I doing wrong? Is this possible without buying additional receivers for each TV? If I do buy additional receivers, will I have to pay the $4.95/month service fee? Is there something else that I need to purchase to make my game plan work?
Please let me know as I thought I had this "perfect plan", but nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks-Jason