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Non-Matrix way of supplying HD programming to multiple TVs is available at a reasonable price EDIT: Yeah, maybe not a good idea.
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Post 16 made on Friday September 7, 2018 at 17:01
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OP | Post 17 made on Friday September 7, 2018 at 20:44
Ernie Gilman
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On February 23, 2018 at 09:46, Fred Harding said...
Disagree with Ernie on the QAM tuner description; many, many, many sets offer QAM tuners.

Fred, we're talking about different things and I can't tell which of us went off the subject.

I'm saying that if you use a QAM modulator and you have a cable system, you'll have to be able to program your cable box to tune your selected channel, which your cable company isn't likely to do. I just realized there's a way around it, though, which is to connect the cable box using baseband connectors (HDMI) and run your signal with the QAM-modulated channels directly into the TV tuner. Of course, this gives you digital audio out of the cable box but, at best, ARC out of the TV for the modulated channels.

Anyway, it can be done.
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Post 18 made on Friday September 7, 2018 at 21:19
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On September 7, 2018 at 14:59, Brad Humphrey said...
Not sure what you mean by that. There is no "box" at the TV end for ANY modulated setup, if the TV has a tuner built-in. That is kind of the whole point.
[note]: Metra's modulated setup uses DVB-T modulation, so requires a tuner box at each TV. Also why it is so much cheaper.

Jimmy, have you use this product before?
I would certainly test this product myself, to make sure a HDCP signal would work. As they don't specifically say that it will. They only mention HDCP once in the literature and that look like a copy/paste about the HDMI input in general.

To convert an HDMI signal to be compatible with a TV’s built in tuner would require striping away the encryption. Stripping away the encryption is illegal.
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Post 19 made on Friday September 7, 2018 at 22:50
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On September 7, 2018 at 21:19, Fins said...
To convert an HDMI signal to be compatible with a TV’s built in tuner would require striping away the encryption. Stripping away the encryption is illegal.

Well that would depend on the court of law. And I would argue STRONGLY that the customer's right to do so in their own home, was guaranteed by the Fair use Act.
But hey, if you have enough money & influence you can take people's rights & liberties away how every the ruling empire sees fit these days.
Post 20 made on Friday September 7, 2018 at 22:57
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On September 7, 2018 at 20:44, Ernie Gilman said...
I just realized there's a way around it, though, which is to connect the cable box using baseband connectors (HDMI) and run your signal with the QAM-modulated channels directly into the TV tuner. Of course, this gives you digital audio out of the cable box but, at best, ARC out of the TV for the modulated channels.

Anyway, it can be done.

In order for that to work, you would have to have a clear channel in the CATV system to modulate to (most CATV systems these days have 0 frequencies free). Otherwise your channel and the channel you just ran over top of, with both be knocked out.
Did a motel at the beginning of the year, that we added a locally generated digital channel into the CATV system. Had to use a digital notch filter on the incoming CATV signal. That filter cost me about $700 and was huge. Worked perfect thou.
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