I had pretty bad reception on my lower cable channels, so I purchased an amplifier from Radio Shack and things are quite a bit better.
On 9/11/05, Jay Jarvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:43:15 -0400 > Tony Paterra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So something I noticed... I took the splitter out of the way and > > and put it directly into the Tivo box... The behavior was slightly > > better but still not close to clear. I also tried putting the > > splitter back in the equation and running the Tivo's line to a > > separate TV and the picture is fine. For some ASCII wiring > > diagrams... > > I'm still a bit confused, and coming late to the thread. > > no splitter (tivo line) -> tivo = not close to clear > but .. > splitter (tivo line) -> other TV = fine? > > A simple splitter by nature, degrades signal quality. > ( http://www.swhowto.com/VideoLoss.htm ) > > I'm not clear whether you've ever been satisfied with the wiring, or > recently added more splitters, etc .. > > Irregardless, I'd suggest just forking over $30-50 on bidirectional > amp. Or, haggle with the cable guy, maybe they'll provide it for free. > > A mere 8dB gain here at my place, fixed ghosting on one TV (ch 11), > and another TV had several go from "good" to "perfect". > > FWIW - as I was rewiring, to speed things up, I grabbed an old coax > cable with push-on F-connectors. I used all 3' of it from the wall to > digital cable box, suddenly 15 of ~200 channels would intermittently > pause w/"one moment please". Turns out it was an RG-59 cable, not > RG-6. > > (I can't explain why that RG-59 was unsuitable, don't really care to > investigate .. RG-6 = simple fix). > > -Jay > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
