MINIMOD 2 Vecoax | HDMI to Coax Modulator to distribute Your hdmi Video Sources to All TVs as HD Channels Over existing tv Coax Cables
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Connector Type | HDMI |
Brand | PVI ProVideoInstruments |
Compatible Devices | Television |
Cable Type | Coaxial, HDMI |
Number of Ports | 2 |
About this item
- CONNECT your HDMI video source to the Minimod-2 hdmi input
- INJECT the coax cable output from the Minimod-2 to your TV Distribution Coax Cables
- SET CHANNEL NUMBER from the minimod color display as well the name you wish for this channel
- RESCAN your TVs to find your new FULL HD 1080p & Dolby Channel
- COMBINES with with the Antenna or Cable Signals so you watch TV channels and the Minimod
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Product Description
The VECOAX MINIMOD-2 converts your HDMI Video signal from any HDMI source into a real HDTV Channel with Full HD up to 1080p and dolby perfect quality, you can inject from any room to your existing tv distribution cables via the wall tv socket together with the other channels and receive in any other room on any TV by simply rescanning the TVs channel list. It is simple to install, plug n play, for everyone, and works in minutes out of the box anywhere, compatible to any regular digital tv. Connect your HDMI Source, Set the Name you want for this channel on our color display, connect to the TV Wall socket or directly to the tv distribution box, and find your HDTV Channel on all TVs. Setup is simple via the color display, where you can change name, channel number ( any atsc air or qam cable, all with no limits ). The MINIMOD 2 is the perfect video distribution extender solution, using the existing cables, to unlimited tvs, without requiring any part behind the tvs. Main Specs : Universal HDMI Input up to 1080p resolution @ 60 frames per seconds Full HD - Mpeg2 1080p Full HD Video Encoding & Dolby Sound - Closed Caption can be activated directly on the video source visible through the HDMI signal so it passes the unit to the destination TVs as part of the video - display selectable QAM Cable & ATSC RF Out Agile ( 30 Mhz to 951 Mhz ) - Can set any destination TV Channel number from 1 to 9999 - Can set the wanted Channel Name - RF Level Out +45dB mV ( can drive 1000+ FT of coax without the need of re-amplify and drive an unlimited number of simultaneous televisions ) watch ytb video nbbsBZym0vg
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Package Dimensions | 11.42 x 6.34 x 3.7 inches |
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Item Weight | 1.5 pounds |
ASIN | B07G5K1ZV2 |
Item model number | 0649070908115 |
Customer Reviews |
4.1 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #77,120 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics) #15 in RF Modulators |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | August 3, 2018 |
Manufacturer | PVI ProVideoInstruments |
Country of Origin | USA |
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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the av signal switch. They mention that it works well in the 1080i or 720p mode and with limits.
"...It is easy to setup and works great. It is well designed." Read more
"...works great." Read more
"...Fundamentally everything worked perfectly...." Read more
"The device itself works great, I have my Amazon Fire TV plugged into it as a source of HDMI, it transmits just fine to my network tuners, I am using..." Read more
Customers find the av signal switch straightforward to use and setup. They appreciate the detailed instructions on how to tweak the many settings. That said, some complain it's a bit pricey.
"...It is easy to setup and works great. It is well designed." Read more
"...Great product! It is a bit pricey, but very convenient. It was easy to set up, just follow the instructions. DISLIKES!..." Read more
"It came before expected delivery date and was easy to setup.For outside US, will need a plug adapter though," Read more
"...idiot-proof. the online manual is very well written and provides detailed instructions on how to tweak the many setting of the minimod-2...." Read more
Customers like the quality of the av signal switch. They say it's a solid device, well-engineered, and idiot-proof.
"...For the most part, it looks just fine and I'm quite satisfied with the quality..." Read more
"...It is easy to setup and works great. It is well designed." Read more
"...The manufacturer acknowledges that the unit is faulty but fails to honor the warranty. The unit failed with a little under six months of operation...." Read more
"...idiot-proof. the online manual is very well written and provides detailed instructions on how to tweak the many setting of the minimod-2...." Read more
Customers like the video distribution capabilities of the av signal switch. For example, they say it does a wonderful job distributing a HDMI feed over coax in their church building to several TVs, and it allows them to distribute video throughout their home using their coac. Some mention that the switch transmits just fine to their network tuners.
"...Fire TV plugged into it as a source of HDMI, it transmits just fine to my network tuners, I am using the atsc going into a over the air Network tuner..." Read more
"...Otherwise it is a great item and allows me to distribute video throughout my home using my coax cable that was installed long ago." Read more
"This does a wonderful job distributing a HDMI feed over coax in our church building to several TV's. Easy to use and setup...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the picture quality of the av signal switch. Some mention it has nice picture quality, while others say that it suffered considerably. They also mention that the video becomes jerky and hard to watch, and the picture occasionally freezes. Overall, opinions are mixed, and it's recommended to read the reviews carefully before making a purchase.
"...My tests were also done in low latency mode. For the most part, it looks just fine and I'm quite satisfied with the quality..." Read more
"...It stops encoding audio. The picture occasionally freezes...." Read more
"This allows me to have whatver video source on all my TV's with a great HD pic." Read more
"Great picture quality" Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the audio quality of the av signal switch. They mention that it is horrible, it distorts to the point it will drive them crazy, and that it stops encoding audio. They are also disappointed that only a stereo audio signal is properly encoded.
"...The unit failed with a little under six months of operation. It stops encoding audio. The picture occasionally freezes...." Read more
"...However I am disappointed that only a stereo audio signal is properly encoded...." Read more
"Audio quality is horrible.. it distorts to the point it will drive you crazy.. I have tried every audio and video option in the Roku.. different..." Read more
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While this VECOAX MINIMOD-2 just arrived today, and I've only played with it for a few hours now, I can certainly say I really like it.
After unboxing it, I left it in its default setup (US cable TV output), coax connected it to a TV in my RV, connected & plugged in the power adapter, and then scanned for new cable channels on the TV. It failed to find the MINIMOD output. I didn't bother to trouble shoot that, since I intend to use it on an OTA channel anyhow (so I can combine it with local TV channels for use in my RV, which is not cable friendly while driving down the road, lol). But I will trouble shoot this later. I'm sure I can get it to work one way or another on cable frequencies if I ever need to. It's probably an attenuation issue anyhow.
I then accessed the MINIMOD-2 menu and set it up for ATSC modulation using the default channel and frequency. I then rescanned the TV for OTA channels and this time it detected the MINIMOD-2's channel. It displayed the unit's test video image perfectly.
Next I connected the amplified roof antenna coax to the unit's RF input and rescanned for OTA channels on my TV. It found the unit's 14.1 default channel but failed to detect any OTA broadcast channels. I then went into the unit's menu and set attenuation to 20 db. I then rescanned and the TV detected 5 of the 50 or so OTA channels that I can pick up from a city about 50 miles away.
Now that I know what that OTA broadcast issue was about, I feel confident I can resolve that later and get most of those channels back. I have a HackRF One SDR which I can connect up later to measure the signal levels of everything to assist in resolving that if necessary
Next I made sure my NUC computer was set to output a fixed video resolution of 1920x1080p, and I switched it from 5.1 to stereo audio output. Then I connected the HDMI output of the NUC computer to the MINIMOD-2. Presto - my computer screen appeared on the TV .. minus about 20 pixels all around the perimeter of the screen. That of course was the TVs fault and was easily corrected with a quick change of the TVs default overscan parameter settings.
My NUC computer is networked. I use VLC on it to play videos from my Synology NAS servers that I bring along in my RV. I selected a number of ripped DVD and Blu-ray movies to play. The DVD video appeared almost identical to direct video output. The 35 GB Blu-ray movies I played however exhibited the same compression artifacts that one sees on cable & satellite TV (this is the reason I don't subscribe to cable or satellite, preferring instead to just buy the shows & Blu-ray movies I want to watch). But this artifacting is only an issue when at home and watching movies on a VERY LARGE projection screen. In my RV, I can certainly live with this, as it's no different than what cable or satellite TV does to video. But on a big screen at home, I will not tolerate the artifact video you see on cable and satellite TV quality video. Even OTA digital TV broadcasts are a LOT better than cable. And I can't tolerate the horrible quality of Internet steamed video services. My first choice is to simply buy the movies and shows I want to watch on Blu-ray (and sometimes DVD), then rip them to my NAS servers, making it convenient for instant access & to take them all with me on the road in my RV when vacationing 6-8 months a year.
Anyhow, I'm quite pleased with this unit. While I would have liked it too be as good as regular local TV digital broadcast stations, I do realize it's not directly broadcasting the video file, but is resampling the video for a second time from the HDMI output. My tests were also done in low latency mode. For the most part, it looks just fine and I'm quite satisfied with the quality (when viewed on these 5 non-top-of-the-line TVs I have throughout my RV). I bought this so I could continue to watch movies while moving around inside and out on any TV while all the TVs remains in sync with each other (well, as close in sync as digital TV gets). Prior to this purchases, my NUC could only play to the TV it was connected to.
BTW, I also have an HDHomerun Extended tuner hooked to my RV Ethernet network. So even if I can't get all of the OTA channels balanced into one coax, it won't matter. I will be using my NUC & VLC to play movies and to watch TV through the HDHomerun tuner, to which I have the antenna directly hooked to, thus eliminating the need to combine any OTA broadcasts with the MINIMOD-2 output. It's also desirable to keep the antenna isolated too because part 2 of this project is to add MoCA networking to my coax, and I don't want any of this transmitting out of my RV.
I may add additional details as I proceed with this project I started in my RV. I'm also curious to see if I plug this MINIMOD-2 output into a campgrounds cable TV coax if suddenly everyone in the campgrounds will get to watch my movies too, lol. I'll set my channel name to RVHDTV .. watch for it at campgrounds across America that I might be staying at, lol.
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2019
While this VECOAX MINIMOD-2 just arrived today, and I've only played with it for a few hours now, I can certainly say I really like it.
After unboxing it, I left it in its default setup (US cable TV output), coax connected it to a TV in my RV, connected & plugged in the power adapter, and then scanned for new cable channels on the TV. It failed to find the MINIMOD output. I didn't bother to trouble shoot that, since I intend to use it on an OTA channel anyhow (so I can combine it with local TV channels for use in my RV, which is not cable friendly while driving down the road, lol). But I will trouble shoot this later. I'm sure I can get it to work one way or another on cable frequencies if I ever need to. It's probably an attenuation issue anyhow.
I then accessed the MINIMOD-2 menu and set it up for ATSC modulation using the default channel and frequency. I then rescanned the TV for OTA channels and this time it detected the MINIMOD-2's channel. It displayed the unit's test video image perfectly.
Next I connected the amplified roof antenna coax to the unit's RF input and rescanned for OTA channels on my TV. It found the unit's 14.1 default channel but failed to detect any OTA broadcast channels. I then went into the unit's menu and set attenuation to 20 db. I then rescanned and the TV detected 5 of the 50 or so OTA channels that I can pick up from a city about 50 miles away.
Now that I know what that OTA broadcast issue was about, I feel confident I can resolve that later and get most of those channels back. I have a HackRF One SDR which I can connect up later to measure the signal levels of everything to assist in resolving that if necessary
Next I made sure my NUC computer was set to output a fixed video resolution of 1920x1080p, and I switched it from 5.1 to stereo audio output. Then I connected the HDMI output of the NUC computer to the MINIMOD-2. Presto - my computer screen appeared on the TV .. minus about 20 pixels all around the perimeter of the screen. That of course was the TVs fault and was easily corrected with a quick change of the TVs default overscan parameter settings.
My NUC computer is networked. I use VLC on it to play videos from my Synology NAS servers that I bring along in my RV. I selected a number of ripped DVD and Blu-ray movies to play. The DVD video appeared almost identical to direct video output. The 35 GB Blu-ray movies I played however exhibited the same compression artifacts that one sees on cable & satellite TV (this is the reason I don't subscribe to cable or satellite, preferring instead to just buy the shows & Blu-ray movies I want to watch). But this artifacting is only an issue when at home and watching movies on a VERY LARGE projection screen. In my RV, I can certainly live with this, as it's no different than what cable or satellite TV does to video. But on a big screen at home, I will not tolerate the artifact video you see on cable and satellite TV quality video. Even OTA digital TV broadcasts are a LOT better than cable. And I can't tolerate the horrible quality of Internet steamed video services. My first choice is to simply buy the movies and shows I want to watch on Blu-ray (and sometimes DVD), then rip them to my NAS servers, making it convenient for instant access & to take them all with me on the road in my RV when vacationing 6-8 months a year.
Anyhow, I'm quite pleased with this unit. While I would have liked it too be as good as regular local TV digital broadcast stations, I do realize it's not directly broadcasting the video file, but is resampling the video for a second time from the HDMI output. My tests were also done in low latency mode. For the most part, it looks just fine and I'm quite satisfied with the quality (when viewed on these 5 non-top-of-the-line TVs I have throughout my RV). I bought this so I could continue to watch movies while moving around inside and out on any TV while all the TVs remains in sync with each other (well, as close in sync as digital TV gets). Prior to this purchases, my NUC could only play to the TV it was connected to.
BTW, I also have an HDHomerun Extended tuner hooked to my RV Ethernet network. So even if I can't get all of the OTA channels balanced into one coax, it won't matter. I will be using my NUC & VLC to play movies and to watch TV through the HDHomerun tuner, to which I have the antenna directly hooked to, thus eliminating the need to combine any OTA broadcasts with the MINIMOD-2 output. It's also desirable to keep the antenna isolated too because part 2 of this project is to add MoCA networking to my coax, and I don't want any of this transmitting out of my RV.
I may add additional details as I proceed with this project I started in my RV. I'm also curious to see if I plug this MINIMOD-2 output into a campgrounds cable TV coax if suddenly everyone in the campgrounds will get to watch my movies too, lol. I'll set my channel name to RVHDTV .. watch for it at campgrounds across America that I might be staying at, lol.
After approximately 60 days, I reached out and asked for an update. I was told parts were still not available; however, they would sell me a new, upgraded replacement unit at a discounted price. This offer put me off a little. As a consumer, a former technical support engineer, and a working engineer, I have never run across anything like this. With commercial equipment, support contracts are typical to get warranty service after a short period. However, these are being sold with a consumer 5-year warranty. The Pro Video Instruments website states, "The PVI VeCOAX HD Modulators are compatible to any HD Video Source & HD Television, limitless, Made in USA with Free Unlimited Tech Support and 5 Year Warranty." While I was considering this less-than-acceptable offer, Pro Video Instruments shipped my defective unit back to me without explanation, documentation, or paperwork. I paid for shipping in both directions because they require you to send a prepaid shipping label when sending a product for warranty service. Customer service so far is unresponsive to my inquiry regarding this issue.
I have spent 500.00 on this unit plus another 50.00 or so on shipping it back and forth and do not have a functional encoder. The Manufacturer is failing to honor the warranty.