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Re: buying a budget hd receiver and need help :)

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Originally Posted by Mucka View Post
ha ha right now the coolsat 4000 is hooked up to a projection hdtv via composite cables. you've been a great help so far and i appreciate it

is it as simple as just buying a captain 8000 and hooking it up to make it work? i won't need a new dish or to mess with anything like that, will i? can i hook the dish up with component cables? this tv has one dvi slot and a place for component cables. it doesn't have hdmi though.
No, no need to change the full setup but if you want to hit the HD bird exemple you wil need a y bracket and another lnb around 20$ so you can hit 2 bird the hi def and regular one, also you will need a switch that is provided with the captain 8000HD
yes component will give you almost the same quality as hdmi!

The dish you have with 2 lnb on it, or the lnb you got there pointing on the hi def bird but on that bird you will only take out around 150 channel and 80 around are hi def...so its good to have 2 lnb, easy to setup and we will help you if you need any information on the setup
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