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Rob,The Motorola drop amp should be fine by itself. Picture this if you have 8dbmv coming into the amp and you boost the level by 15 that gives you 23dbmv subtract 11 for the 8-way you have 12, subtract another 7 for the 4-way in the attic and you have 5 another 3-4dbmv loss for the wiring and...

Dave, it should really not be locked at the side of your house. Technically its your property if its attached to your home even though the demarcation point between the cable company and you is at the home. If they need to have any kind of video trap since you only have internet service then...

It all depends how long the runs are? @550mhz"CH.78" the loss between RG-6 and RG59 is 1dbmv per100' the real importance is the quality of shielding of the cable itself. Where you can have a RG-6 cable with 2-ply 60% braid and quad-shield RG-59 with 90%, the RG-59 cable in this case is better...

Bob,to help your situation we need to know what cable box you presently have. Rob

Rob, you only need 0dbmv at the set for a good picture. there is no real way to boost the head end signal just to accomodate your home, everything is balanced from the street. If you run into any more problems that can't be resolved by a technician with picture quality, call the local office and...

I love hometheater! But For 2-channel MUSIC LISTENING Mags are the way to go. I listened to some good songs at Joe Casey's setup and it beat my Deftech BP2004 setup hands down! As far as good electric guitar bass and kick-drum, I thought it nailed it perfect. Listen to it first with a good...

Hey Dave, so 2-BP2000's and the TN220 is enough bass for you? I thought you always had room for improvement.

For Digital Cable the compression can be anywhere from 6-1 for premium channels HBO,Showtime,etc. To 12-1 for Discovery, Sundance, and Encore channels. HDTV is a 256Qam of 2-1 compression. Your still using a 6mhz channel for the compression formula,so I don't get the mbps rule comes from...

Dean Bu, Are you still in NJ? If you there are plenty of K-series DCT boxes with s-video and spdif digital audio outputs in NJ, Need one? I wil get you one! Rob

ThomasL, This should be what you want www.viewsonic.com model # vsa-604L Good amp with reverse path and 4-output splitter built-in. Hope this helps Rob

Don't worry about length until you get to the 50' mark, than a custom length out of quality RG-6 cable would fit the bill. Rob

Try these out. Aska, Lindsay,Toner,Viewsonics,and Qintar are all favortes of the CATV Industry. Rob

(one leg for a cable modem, which does work through the amplifier). Never said it would not work! Its just not the prefered choice of cable television engineers though. Also note unless you know how much level there is at the demarcation point how do you know if the drop to the house is bad...

It would be good but also very costly to everyone buying new equipment. TVs,VCRs,DVDs,Cable boxes,etc. Last looked at it would consumers in the billions of $$$. Also NTSC has the least lines of resolution so don't look for people to switch to our standard. Rob

My favorite are: Zepplin,Pink floyd,Billy Squire,Motley Crue AC/DC, and Creed. Rob

ThomasL, Just a quick tip RG-6 cable losses are 2dbmv per 100' at CH.2 and 5dbmv at CH.78. Figure on about 10-12dbmv @ CH.2 and 13-15dbmv @ CH.78 at the pole or pedestal. 2-ways 3.5 4-ways 7.0 and 8-ways 11.0 for splitter loss. If you have a 4-way and about 100' loss go a 10dbmv amp and then...

Radio Shack has good things and some inferior things. As far as there brand of drop cable such as RG-6 and push on 3'and 6' jumpers; throw them out! Here's a good thing. If you have a CATV tech come to you house for a service call, let him know where every splitter is and every splice you made...

FYI.... > The following is a list of titles to be shown in high definition on SHO > HDTV in March (Each title includes Dolby Digital 5.1 except for > "Crisscross" which will be broadcast in stereo): > > Theatricals > Black Rain > Crisscross* > Lucky Numbers > Passion of Mind...

Michael, the encoding process is an analog to digital on there end. As I posted earlier in the A/V balance at the HE is probalby off there. I can't see the DD dialnorm being off that much " it will post an alert if the level is below factory norm" but your inputs have to be within that window of...

Michael, to enighten what Wayne said about commercials, when a A/V delta balance is done you need a monitor to see if you are on the actual program or a commercial. All balancing except for premiums and PPVs is done without a commercial being displayed. The encoding process is the very last...

Michael, there could be 2 parts to this. First TCM is fine on my system in NJ so lets stick with TWC in your sytem. The signal off the satellite has a correction factor that is adjusted at each cable Head-End, the video to audio delta should be between 12dbmv to 17dbmv. At each stage in the...

As far as length of optical goes at 1550 nanometers the attenuation is .25db per kilometer.So I can honestly say if you have a .5 meter or 5000 meter it doesn't affect the performance. I do Know the video and audio performance for analog and digital upto 862mhz and have yet to see problems that...

DonWinzen, The question was asked if there is compression on C-Band satellite. And the CORRECT ANSWER is YES. I have worked in a satellite teleport and worked overrall in the cable industry for many years. So I am giving my facts from hands on work experience. I am sorry your lack of knowledge...

"C-Band offers over 600 channels; it also does not compress the signal so the picture is said to be better." C=Band and Ku-Band does some major compression right along the lines of Directv and Dish. There is very good receiver the 4-DTV that is able to decipher the digital compression out there...

Robert: Thanks for the response; I take it that the Motorola HD-220 somehow attaches to the RCA 100 to decode the cable's HDTV signal? Sorry, but the HDD-200 only works with the Motorola DCT-Digital box or with the 4DTV on C-Ku Band satellite. RCA DTC only works with Directv and OTA...

There will be two choices depending on your system. Scientific Atlanta stand-alone converter Motorola side-car HDD-200 to go with the DCT Digital boxes The signal will be a 256qam everywhere so the OTA decoders for 8-VSB will not work. But you could always buy your own HDD-200 side car if...

All the major cities of Comcast are getting HDTV http://www.tvinsite.com/multichannel...y=breakingNews Rob

I don't know about limited bandwidth with a video signal at 6mhz and fiber able to perform at Gigabyte level makes that a moot point. But there are pro's and con's on every forum about this. What ever works for you and your hook-up is what is important! Try both connections and see if you can...

You need the HDD-200 side car from Motorola to make it work with the DCT Digital box. So if have another decoder for satellite or OTA it will not work. We are using a 256QAM digital with 2-1 compression. Yes you need the Digital Box for it to work. So if you want HBO or Showtime in HDTV then...

War Stories, give me a couple days and we get together at the office and compile the best over the years. Favorite cable: Belden 1694a is O.K. but, Belden 9167 or 734d1 is tops (Silver Tinned Copper) To me its the best out there for video and audio interconnect cable!! Just add a Canare...