Such a thing as DOWN-Convert?

[bruss01]

Ok, here's the situation... We have tv in the living room and also in the bedroom. The bedroom TV rarely gets used - usually only when someone is sick in bed, or there is a conflict of interest. Probably only something is watched there every 3 months or so. The bedroom unit also has the DVD/VCR unit attached, so it is used when we need to play a video tape. Our dish tuner/DVR serves both tv's.

SO... recently we got a big HDTV for the living room. Now, the SD reception seems very poor compared to disks we play on our BD player. I'm considering upgrading our dish service to HD, but wondering how to accommodate the SD tv in the bedroom? That unit will not be upgraded anytime soon. Will it (2005 production TV) display an HD picture? Can the receivers be configured to output SD on a single line? Is there a "converter box" of some kind that down-converts an HD signal to SD? How have others of you dealt with a similar situation?