I have a Sony Bravia TV in a corner of my living room. There are archways on either side of it, so I ran a fifty foot cable for headphones from the headphone output of the TV, up through the ceiling behind the TV, across my attic about fifteen feet, and snaked it down through a wall, where it comes...

Hello. Is it true that coax cable splitters, with many ports (e.g., five ports with one input and four outputs), are not even in each of its port to TVs? If so, then are they all like this by design? I know they lose strengths when splitted, but someone told me that each port is not the same...

Hello. My folks recently bought two new Samsung HDTVs (55" and a 20") to replace their old CRT TVs. I was helping them to set them up. I noticed closed captionings (CCs) sometimes show all texts in all CAPS in some over the air (OTA) Los Angeles/L.A. broadcasts from an outdoor CM 4228HD...

I'm thinking about replacing a Radio Shack amplified 4-way splitter just on GPs. The thing is quite a few years old, and I'm unable to find the gremlins that are causing pixellation except that they seem tb restricted to my media center's tuners and not the direct-connected TVs. The Question:

Hello all. What's the maximum coax cable lengths can be before they start losing signals from HDTV OTA feeds? Also, are there anything that can conflict them? The reason why I am asking because I noticed some rooms, in a big house, can get more channels and better feeds than others. It could...

Hi! http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3d40330909db0c9f and http://i.imgur.com/q7LS4.jpg (AntennaWeb). Their finds look very bad for my most likely future home. :( Google Street View's Photograph/Photo. of the front of the house with big trees from November 2008:...

I'm trying to parse this summary from http://tinyurl.com/c6qgenw "Antennas Direct recommends using a pre-Amplifier for outdoor installations or cable runs over 100 ft. A distribution amplifier should be used to make up for loss due to splitting but is not recommended to compensate for long cable...

New thread for searchability by others who might have the same question. I'm going to re-do a rather heinous splitting scheme and am wondering if there is any profit in buying more cable so the runs are contiguous instead of joined in-line. i.e. Is it worth putting in 100 feet of new...

Looking for a second TV, to be used almost exclusively for late evening viewing from bed. We only have space for a 32" HD set which will be viewed from a distance of about 12 feet. With a screen of that size viewed from that distance, would we see any real difference with 1080i satellite...

I had to get a replacement hd box from TW. When I connected the same hdmi cable that worked on the previous box, would not work on this one. I just can't keep buying these cables not knowing why they are so damn fickle in working . I bought it 4 months ago and it worked just fine with the older...

Last night we were all prepared to watch a little TV. The screen was blank. In th e past unplugging the the plug would set it up to work again...but not this time. Called TW and they said no outages in my area, but TW is updating some areas and won't have any TV for at least 24 hours. Isn't that...

Why would they recommend that..doesn't it depend on your cable plan and whatever you get is what is for that plan? So what good would autoscan do?

Just wondering about something. I currently have a 24" Dell monitor and I was toying with the idea of a larger monitor, a 32 inch one. Just idle mind wandering. But when I started looking around, the prices scared me off. Why is it that I can find monitors up to around 27 inches for under $300 but...

I am looking for a quality HDTV for my "frugal" elderly parent, who just wants to be able to watch TV for free after buying the TV (and does not have/want internet/cable). I am not sure whether the following HDTV would be too much TV and many of the features (internet, etc.) will not be taken...

Philadelphia PA (USA) area. Some months ago we started getting heavy pixellation on channel 12 late at nite - specifically Charlie Rose. Since then I have seen the same thing intermittently on The Tonite Show (channel 6). In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not watching anything live. ...

I subscribe to Shaw Direct Satellite (formerly Starchoice -- Canada) I run the Motorola 605 -- their latest HD receiver It is connected via HDMI I have noticed severe overscan-- both horizontally and vertically. Seemed to get worse after a firmware update e.g. a baseball game where there is a...

I cannot get the _Cox_version_ of the URC-8820 Remote (made by UEI) to program. Cox "Support" is inhabited by slugs, and any question to UEI gets kicked back to "ask Cox" :-( (The Cox "documentation" is limited to device on/off numbers.) What I'd like to do is program "Power" to power-up...

The user manual for one of Vizio's TV says this about the HDMI connection between and HDTV set-top box and TV: "To maintain the display quality, use a VIZIO certified HDMI cable that is 10 meters." Normally, I would think that means 10 meters or less. However, a friend recently had a new TV...

If I switch back to Charter without getting set top boxes for HD, what is the max resolution?

This is what I seem to be getting now from a Verizon FIOS feed in the New York City area. Never any surround sound, just stereo 2.0: CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NatGeo, Weather Channel, WWOR (only mono). Surround sound all the time: CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, Discovery, Science, Smithsonian, pay...