TV Tuner Coax vs HDMI

I'm a novice to both home theatres and TV tuner. I purchased a Q700 with the TV tuner. Much to my surprise, when I proceded to hook up the satellite box (HDMI out) to the computer, by way of TV tuner (coax in) that, well, I couldn't because of the connections. Now what do I do? Is there a HDMI to coax converter, and if so, isn't the high-def lost in the conversion? Or am I stuck getting another TV tuner and wasting the extra cost? Thanks!

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I'm a novice to both home theatres and TV tuner. I purchased a Q700 with the TV tuner. Much to my surprise, when I proceded to hook up the satellite box (HDMI out) to the computer, by way of TV tuner (coax in) that, well, I couldn't because of the connections. Now what do I do? Is there a HDMI to coax converter, and if so, isn't the high-def lost in the conversion? Or am I stuck getting another TV tuner and wasting the extra cost? Thanks!
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I'm at a loss as to why you would even do this. HDMI is not NTSC RF and the signals are not even close to being convertable. Your Q700 does have an HDMI port but that is to feed a display device and I doubt you could feed into it and display on the screen. Your satellite box has to have an RF output and you can use coax on that to the RF input on the Q700 but it will not and never can be hi-def.

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