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Old August 9th 03, 07:27 PM
john
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Having managed to borrow a freeview pace box to test reception I have
found I can recive all channels and they look fine. The signal strength
only ranges from 70-75% which seems pretty low to me, there were no
dropouts but does this mean there is likely to be? Though this is after
the splitter, not directly from the aerial as I plan to set it up (which
I hope will improve things).

Anyhow, I'm about to start picking digiboxes and I'm planning on getting
one with two scarts as I have to inputs to the TV currently used by the
video and the DVD.

I was going to use the video input for the digibox and pass the VCR
input through the scart of the digibox. Question is: If I watch
protected videos, will having this setup mean macrovision problems?

On an old setup, when I had Sky Digital I had to plug the DVD strait
into the TV instead the the digibox as rental DVDs had problems
otherwise.

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Old August 12th 03, 11:36 AM
BillR
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john wrote:
Having managed to borrow a freeview pace box to test reception I have
found I can recive all channels and they look fine. The signal
strength only ranges from 70-75% which seems pretty low to me, there
were no dropouts but does this mean there is likely to be? Though
this is after the splitter, not directly from the aerial as I plan to
set it up (which I hope will improve things).

Its the signal to noise ratio thats more important. I'm usig the labgear and
it shows next to no signal but the s/n ratio is good and I get all channels.


 




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