In the Seattle area, Comcast has several levels of service. The basic is
regular cable channels 2-99 which can be viewed on any cable ready tv. The
digital option requires a digital box with remote that is used to select the
channel (it sounds like this is what your daughter has -- if NOT, ignore the
rest of the post).
In our area, if you split the cable to multiple televisions before the
digital box, all other televisions/VCRs can tune channels 2-99 without a
problem. Only the tv hooked up directly to the digital box can receive the
digital channels. So, if your daughter has a similar setup, she should be
able to split the cable before the digital tuner and use one feed for
internet and a cable ready tv 2-99 and use the digital feed for the main tv.
My original set up fed three TVs and 4 VCRs, only one of which with a
digital box.
Cable in ----------> VCR -------> digital box ------> TV (able to get
digital channels)
\-----> VCR (channels 2-99 )------------/
\-----> VCR (2-99)-------> TV
\-----> VCR (2-99)-------> TV
I have removed the digital service and added broadband and another tv/pvr
setup and simply split the incoming cable again. The only problem I have is
channel 54 does not come in very well -- but it never did. I do all this
without extra charge or any type of cable booster.
As always, YMMV, but this is my experience.
Jim Maki
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diane Poremsky
>
> Daughter is hooking up the splitter and cable i sent - she says she
> has it between the cable box and TV and the one in her room gets the
> same channel as the one in the living room. Turns out comcast
> installed a box that uses a remote that they need in the living rioom
> - well duh, of course it's going to be the same channel if you are
> picking up the signal at that point. i don't know what tv they have in
> the living room - does the presense of the box mean it's not cable
> ready or is this something comcast requires of all customer?
>
> So the real question... do cable companies still get PO'd if you split
> the signal to other TVs without paying a per TV fee? Will it work to
> put the splitter behind the box? I have no idea what TV she has - but
> assuming it's cable ready, will she need a box with it too, or only if
> she wants certain channels?
>
>
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