From the diagram the big TV is in the living room hooked up to DVR#1. That works fine.I am trying to hook up the TV in my office via component cables[TV has no HDMI].I ran an Ethernet cable from the office DVR#2 to a linksys wireless router in order to receive Netflix. Can someone tell me if this is correct? If not can someone re-do the diagram or tell me [in simple terms] how to do this. I am a techno idiot. BTW: the diagram needs to be turned.

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What brand DVR has RJ-45 ethernet?

I would think that if you ran ethernet to the blu ray it would get you netflix on the lvg room tv, but the office is out of the loop

Direct TV'S HR-24-100
I ran the Ethernet cable to the router in my office where the computer is.

Hmm, I'm not familiar with Direct TV's box, but is the ethernet connection to give web access (what browser is being used?) or is it for streaming the DVR to a home PC?

It is for streaming to a home PC.

It looks like what you have will work as long as the DVR will output simultaneously to HDMI and component.

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What model blu ray are you trying to hook up?

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As far as I know, you can't stream OUT of the DVR to a PC unless it's a special one. The only one's I've seen stream inbounds only.

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You need to run a drop from your router straight to the blu ray player, purchase a wireless adapter for the player, or take it back and purchase a player with wireless built in.

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I checked the sat site and it seems that the ethernet port lets a subcriber redirect dvr output to a PC for viewing and also allows music and photos on the PC to be displayed on the attached televisions. There must be some software that allows the data to pass back and forth or allows the DVR to be a shared drive/server on the home net.

I have a similar living room/office scenario with DirecTV and these soluitions are starting to get complicated.

Do you -- 420 -- have existing in-wall cable wiring with jacks in each room? And, if so, would it be possible to take the coaxial from the DTV receiver, plug that into the exisiting cable wiring, and feed that through the entire residence?

(I am sure the answer is "no.")

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Direct TV HD-DVR'S do not have any coax connections.

I'm not sure exactly which device you're trying to watch in the office, but it looks like you can only watch Netflix and the DVR 2 signals. This assumes the HDMI switch is a 4 input/1 output switch.

If DVR1 and DVR2 are the same, you've got both HDMI inputs going to the living room switch box. There may be some utility there (like DVR2 recorded program X and DVR1 program Y and you want the ability to watch either X or Y in the living room) but otherwise the HDMI cable from DVR2 to the switch is redundant.

Is the problem you get NO picture from the component cable in the office, while you do get an HDMI picture in the living room when the switch is on #2? Or you can't get Blu-Ray in the office?

Two recommendations: 1) Try to force DVR2 to have an output of 720P or maybe 480i. 2) Unplug the HDMI cable from the back of DVR2. Reason: If the DVR is trying to output 1080P on the HDMI it may suppress outputs on the component since the component out can't do 1080P. Make sure you program the DVR to generate as many formats as possible.

If you're trying to watch Blu-Ray in the office, I don't think you can get there from here. If your Blu-Ray also has an RCA out, then you could run a second cable to the office (low-res, non-HD); or if it has component out, you could go to a component switch (do they make those?) and cycle between Blu-Ray and DVR2 in the living room for the output to the office.

The TV in the office works fine using DVR#2 The blu-ray in the LR is hooked up via HDMI to the LR TV. As shown in the Diagram.I only want to view Blu-Ray in the LR. Also Netflix is involved. So i have an Ethernet cable from the Blu-ray to a Linksys wireless router in the office where the PC is.