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Aynone know anything about Antenna television?

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kahlid74:
I would strongly recommend an amplifier for that many devices.

As far as one big splitter or a daisy chain of splitters it comes down to the loss suffered.  If you look on the splitter it will tell you the dB lost when splitting the signal.  So the loss for multiple 2 or 4 way splitters would be the same as a 8 way EXCEPT for the additional loss for the connecting cords.  So each additional cord introduced gives a slight loss even if they are insulated.  So a large 8 way splitter that is HIGH in quality would be the preferred choice.

The benefit however of a group of smaller splitters however is that you can amplify only the ones you want.  So if you have three devices that are fine you can then amplify the other two without amplifying the three that are good.  I have seen amplifiers on a very rare occasion mess up the signal on a TV but that was going from the wall to am amplifier to a cable box so my guess is the cable box and the amplifier were not happy.

yaksplat:
Media center records in either dvr-ms or wtv formats.  They are basically a mpeg2 file.  You can easily run conversions to mp4 so the source will work everywhere else.  Keep in mind that an hour long show may be 9 gigs.

If you are using media center through an xbox 360 or on a htpc, be sure to look into media browser.  It's an excellent program that has a far superior presentation layer than the out of the box media center.

markronz:
Ok, I'm not entirely sure where amplifiers or pre-amplifiers wire into my overall set up yet.  Like if they would go between my one original cable and the splitters, or somewhere in between, or what.  But if anyone has any they could recommend, or any splitters that are of high quality they could recommend that would be great.   For now I guess I am going to wire up just the antenna and play around with it.   Like start with 2 TV's, and if that works, split it to 4 tv's and etc.

markronz:

--- Quote from: yaksplat on March 20, 2012, 02:28:44 pm ---Media center records in either dvr-ms or wtv formats.  They are basically a mpeg2 file.  You can easily run conversions to mp4 so the source will work everywhere else.  Keep in mind that an hour long show may be 9 gigs.

If you are using media center through an xbox 360 or on a htpc, be sure to look into media browser.  It's an excellent program that has a far superior presentation layer than the out of the box media center.

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Thank you I will definitely give that a looksie once I get acceptable signal everywhere.

kahlid74:

--- Quote from: markronz on March 20, 2012, 02:31:28 pm ---Ok, I'm not entirely sure where amplifiers or pre-amplifiers wire into my overall set up yet.  Like if they would go between my one original cable and the splitters, or somewhere in between, or what.  But if anyone has any they could recommend, or any splitters that are of high quality they could recommend that would be great.   For now I guess I am going to wire up just the antenna and play around with it.   Like start with 2 TV's, and if that works, split it to 4 tv's and etc.

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This is more related to you trying it out.  If you were going to use an 8-way splitter I would go Antenna --> Amplifier --> 8Way Splitter.  If you were going to do smaller splitters you could do something like Antenna --> Two way Splitter --> (1st Split) goes to Main Room TV -- (2nd Split) goes to Amplifier --> 4 way splitter

So it really depends on how it looks on your TV.  The amplifier "shouldn't" make the signal on your TV look bad but you can always try it.

Smaller splitters might be better so you can amplify after you've split it a time or two.

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