[mythtv-users] Multiple Tuners/Digital Cable (Newbie)

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Saturday, Oct 11, 2003, at 22:28 US/Pacific, Keola wrote:

> > Just make sure you have enough signal strength. Get a good splitter
> > and/or an amplified one. Personally, I'd split the coax three ways,
> > one to each TV card and one to the cable box. Then feed from the 
> cable
> > box to the secondary TV card w/S-Video.
>
> > --Jarod
>
> This is great news for me; both of you have practically the same cable 
> setup as me. I have one cable jack that I want to split three ways:
> 1) PVR-350
> 2) 2nd tuner card
> 3) Motorola DCT2224 cable box
>
> I read the following thread (linked below) and guess I'll have to 
> shell out $50 for a bi-directional four-way amplifier from Radio Shack 
> (#15-1197) unless you know of a cheaper alternative.

I think that *is* the cheaper alternative. :)

My cable box in a similar configuration to yours above is now a 
Motorola DCT5100, and with a cheaper (and only two-way) splitter, I 
couldn't ever get a good lock on HD signals w/the DCT5100. Some tuned 
in, but would drop chunks of the screen from time to time, pixellate 
badly on fast movement, etc, and other channels just wouldn't ever come 
in. I picked up that amplified splitter, and that jack is now feeding 
the DCT5100, a PVR-250 and a secondary tuner card, all without problem. 
No problem getting all the HD channels Comcast carries.

> Also, because the freestyle supposedly conflicts with the pvr-250/350, 
> I assume it's best for me to buy a pvr-250 (rather than the freestyle) 
> as a second tuner with my existing pvr-350, right?

I'm not certain that it wasn't just one person who had problems with 
that setup. The "Freestyle" is more or less just an OEM 250, so in 
theory, it ought to work just fine with a full 250 or a 350, but ymmv...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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