how to connect coaxial satalite cable to tv that has no usable coaxial input

packratt

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I have a Toshiba flatscreen that has a bad coaxial input, I used it in another room with the sat. box and had it hooked up via HDMI, I have moved it to another room and only have the coaxial connection in that room, is there a way to convert coaxial to HDMI. as I do not want to run a dedicated HDMI cable and I cannot use the coaxial input on the tv, when I select that as input my tv starts to turn itself off and on.It will work fine on the HDMI inputs.Any help would be appreciated.
 
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Is the signal on the coax an RF signal in QAM (HDTV) format? Old style analog RF format? Without knowing what signal is on the coax I can't help figure out what will convert it into HDMI.

kanewolf

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If you had a TV that you could feed coax into, how would the channel be selected? Normally for satellite TV a converter box is required to select channels etc. But is is possible that you have just run a coax output from your primary satellite box for an supplemental display. If that is the case then the picture on this TV would be the same as the primary.

If the signal is direct from the satellite dish, then I don't think the TV could receive it.
 

packratt

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packratt

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I have a dual receiver sat.box, this tv was connected to this box via hdmi before ,but now that i have moved it to another room I have to use the coax cable to hook sat to tv but the input for the coax does not work. The house is pre wired for this and I don't want to run an hdmi cable because I would have to drill holes in my wall or floor in two places in order to do that, I don't necessarily need to use hdmi, I could use anything to get from coax to the tv that will transmit pic and sound
 

kanewolf

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Is the signal on the coax an RF signal in QAM (HDTV) format? Old style analog RF format? Without knowing what signal is on the coax I can't help figure out what will convert it into HDMI.
 
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