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</div>Ok Phill it seems you have a 3-way splitter feeding a two way<br>
splitter, which indicates to me that your TV is misrepresenting the<br>
situation to you. One 4-way splitter would be better in your case, but<br>
may not be logistically possible so an amplifier may be needed. What<br>
you have done is taken a good signal and reduced it by 3.5db with each<br>
split, splitters vary, it will be printed on the device "-ndb" where n<br>
is a numerical value. Splitting the first time gave you a weakened,<br>
but usable signal to your TV's, splitting again weakened it again,<br>
which I suspect is giving the results you describe. And you can even<br>
have some good and some worse recordings from the same source, but<br>
different channel/multiplex. Other times a bad connector/s can cause<br>
problems, your cable provider could diagnose this for you.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Just wanted to let people know who may have similar problems in future, that I have installed a 4-way Splitter Amplifier (made by Kingray for those in Australia) and the problem seems to be cured. Thanks to everyone who offered such good advice. </div>
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