[mythtv-users] Please help!

[Ali Asad Lotia]

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 <jay-lists at 3pound.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:43:15 -0400
> Tony Paterra <apaterra at gmail.com> 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
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> 
> 
>