Home audio & video forum: Do I need to rewire the house?

That's true but that's not the reason. You need a box for each TV because that is what you will use to change the channels and the box need the RG6 cable connection.

I understand the new connections "in the room" like from a new DISH box to to the TV or BOSE bar.....and yes, we'll change out all 4 boxes since the 3 smaller TVs are much newer - certainly for this monster we're putting in the living room. It's the RG6 in the WALLS - the original wiring of the entire house which brings the signal to each room that this person from DISH (who was not a techie....but answers their phone) said "he thought" all the wiring back through the walls of every room ALSO HAD TO BE updated.....that RG6 was not good enough for HDMI transmission into the house itself. At some point he mentioned a wire called RG40 which I have never heard of. If this is the case, I've got news for them, I am not restringing wire throughout my attic and crawlspace to every room with a TV jack.....I'll switch to Roadrunner or U-Verse. I also have two cat 5 lines to every room. I like DISH because we get the east-coast feed here in California.....everything comes on 3 hours earlier....prime-time starts at 5:00 instead of 8:00.

The fact that you said it could be buried, leads me to believe what I've thought all along - the person on the phone (who was obviously in a DISH office somewhere and really wasn't a technical type) "may" have been referring to the line coming TO THE HOUSE from the telephone pole in our alley. We said "in the walls" 50 thousand times, but people hear what they want to hear, and answer with whatever capability they have on hand. What I need to see is the DISH hi-def box to see if there's a coax connector on the back for the incoming signal. What they bring to house to the splitter in the basement is their business.....but from there, it travels to every room in the house via in-the-wall RG6 coax. I f THAT wiring needs replacement - no way am I paying for that. Pretty soon this TV and Bose Bar plus wiring and upgraded programming etc. etc will just be ridiculous.....I'll watch videos or go to the movies.

We have a centrally located basement where the incoming DISH line goes to a panel splitter they provided. We "rent" 4 DISH boxes for 4 TVs in rooms which individually leave the DISH splitter via coax. Two are downstairs and two are upstairs.....nothing weird about the wiring and the regular signals are fine. I can't believe that everybody out there who wants to upgrade to hi-def TV has to re-wire every room in their house to accommodate this.

I will do that....thank you for that information.