Capuring off of Satilite dish

[spiderman2k1]

Satilite is digital when the signal is in the air but the cable that run's in your house is that still digital? Kind of like DVD the DVD player and the disc are digital but the cable that go to your TV are analog. I'm just wondering if when the signal change when it comes of the dish analog or digital or does it stay digital and only become analog with the out put's to your TV?

[aldus4]

The Satellite receiver is the crucial item here. Thats why you have digital and analog satellite receivers.

[lattedfw]

It's still the digital signal coming from the dish on the coaxial line (you couldn't just connect it to something other than the decoder and see a picture). It's a regular analog signal leaving the decoder box going to your TV.

The exception to that might be if you have HDTV and connect a digital High Definition TV or HDTV decoder to the satellite decoder's digital output.

There may be some MacroVision protection on the analog signal coming out of the decoder to the TV, particularly on the Pay Per View channels. I haven't investigated the details, so I'm not sure.

I have DishNetwork. There are roughly 18 volts going from the decoder to the dish as well, so don't plug that coaxial line into anything else. I just got a cable modem installed and the guy had me get two diplexers to send the cable and satellite signals over the same coaxial line into the house. The diplexer isolates the cable and satellite signals- probably for the reason of that power going to the dish.