HD over Coax

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I have the Bell HD PVR (I think it's the 9200 - sorry I'm new to this but it's the latest and greatest - so whatever model number that is), and I have it hooked up to my main 65" HD TV and it works great, but I have also just purchased a hot tub that will go in the back yard beside my garage. I have coax cable run out to my garage (not a very long distance), so I want to plug my 32" Toshiba flat panel into the coax cable, hang it on a removable mount on the side of the garage, and have it display HD from the PVR while sitting in the hot tub with a "pop" or two watching hockey / football, etc. I want it to display the same channel as what's on my main TV from the PVR and don't care about sound because I already have speakers outside hooked up to my amp, and they will play the sound from my main TV.

My question is, can I take the coax cable and put adapters on either end so that I can plug the cable into the S-Video out on the PVR and the S-Video in on the Toshiba and be able to view the picture in HD on both the main 65" and the outside TV at the same time?

Any help would be appreciated!
 
S-Video doesn't carry an HD signal. You'll need component cables or HDMI for HD. I know I've seen in one of my theatre magazines some kind of wireless HDMI devices.
 
Please see the following post on cables/connections. As stated above, S-video is SD.:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=76085

And the following post, useful for those new to the forum:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=57741
 
Why not just use the coax out, without any adapters?
If it HAS to be HD, you can use the coax, and run 4 more pieces of coax terminate them and use an adapter to make them component cables ($1.99 a pair)
 
I hooked a 2nd TV to the Bell HD PVR Box at my M-I-L's located in her basement. 2nd TV is an old Sony 32" SD Tube. It's connected via the 2nd Tuner Coax out. The SD TV still picks up all the HD channels because the box downconverts it.

At least an option for you if you don't want to go through the hassle of changing out the existing coax.
 
I have an AVS box that I connect the composite yellow/red/white out from the back of my 9100 box, to the input of the AVS box, and AVS output is the cable coax that runs through the house...with all the tv's on channel 3, when I change channels with the 9100 remote, all the tv's will be on the same satellite station....this is not an HD solution but since you have cable outside now anyways, it is the cheapest way to get the satellite signal to the outside TV...and HD content looks really good on analogue TVs....then if your Toshiba has an ATSC tuner in it, with a decent antenna, you could pick up your local TV stations in uncompressed glorious high definition, so you should be able to see the Flames play in HD while relaxing in the hottub.....just a thought
 
You can buy HDMI powered splitters for about $60 on the net. That and a suitable HDMI cable would be the simplest solution. Try monoprice.
 
What advantage does this offer you over using the built in TV2 out (and you can select the channel)?

(did you mean 9200 or 6100 rather than 9100 that you posted? :) )
 
You don't need a splitter - you can connect one HD tv to tuner 1 via HDMI and a second HD to tuner 1 via component - both are live at the same time, although you'll have to watch the same channel on both.
 
As has been mentioned by others, if you want true HD, you'll need to run additional cables or invest in one of the new and relatively expensive wireless HD sender/receiver systems.

Since your 2nd TV isn't all that large, you'll get a very watchable (near DVD-quality) SD picture from TV2 on the 9200, and with stereo audio. Use the RF modulator built into the 9200 and select a UHF or CATV channel that has no local OTA counterpart and then connect the existing coax from the TV2 RF output on the 9200 to your 2nd TV. You might find that you'll get a better picture on some channels than you do on others - a little experimentation may be in order if you're getting RF interference on the 2nd TV.
 
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