BASEMENT T.V. hook up

[syringa]

I have a 2008 32TK3, I can only get the basement Tv to work on CABLE . It doesn't matter where i put the switch for tv 3 on the blk box.
I would like to have sat tv in the basement.... Anyone with any ideas????????? :)

[layne]

experiment, experiment, experiment! We tried every combination and finally got it right. I THINK we had to use the auxillary switch on the long black box (the one that says TV antenna power)--the fifth button on the right of the box. Also, be sure your TV is set on the right channel--ours was 3 rather than 4 like I thought so it took lots of trial and error. We had an extra infrared button in a drawer put there by DT, so we can use our remote outside to change channels on satellite. We had about as much trouble getting cable to work, so that doesn't say much about our hi-tech ability! Good luck.

[RonS]

I could not get all of the sat channels on the bedroom TV, called DirectTV who sent out a repair man. Who took off the plate in the water bay pulled out the cables and found a spliter, which he said was the wrong kind. He replaced it and now works. I have never used the TV set up in basement, but maybe you have the same splitter problem.
We do not use the sat system when just stopping for the night when traveling, wonder what problems are about to arise with the digital box install.
Good Luck Ron

[Motor31]

When I sorted out the rats nest of wiring on our entertainment center the other year I found 2 cheap signal splitters installed. One was inside at the box area and the other was just behind the water control box outside where the cable / satellite hook ups are. I pulled both splitters and hooked up the cables as per the instructions on the entertainment switching box. I did lose the outside "cable" connector but since before I pulled the splitter neither the satellite or cable worked I consider it a victory. What was needed was a selector switch and a single outside connector but the factory didn't want to do it that way. I have since gone to an electrical supply store and gotten the selector switch for the coax cable and can switch now from inside satellite feed to outside feed with no loss of signal unlike the cheap splitters that were originally installed.