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| Topic: | Digital Cable and PIP This thread has 4 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday November 29, 2001 at 20:32 |
shep001 Founding Member |
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I have a pany 36HX41 with a att digital cable box. There is a second tuner which is used for PIP and Swap. The problem is that the cable box will only control one tuner. I talked to ATT and they said that I could split the signal and run the other part through a video recorder which I do not want to do as I am not a big taper nor do I want any more wires! I think that I could run a regular cable feed through the video imputs of the TV (Coaxial to RCA plugs) and use the remote of the TV to control the second feed which will be the PIP/Swap channel. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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| Post 2 made on Thursday November 29, 2001 at 21:14 |
Larry Fine Loyal Member |
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Shep, I think you'll find that feeding a cable signal into a video jack won't work. Cable signals (RF) MUST go into a tuner, whether a cable box, VCR, or TV. Cable boxes and VCRs can output either RF (coax) or video (RCA). Only a video output from a tuner can be fed into a video input. To use PIP with two different digital-cable signals, you need two digital-cable tuners. TVs and VCRs can, however, tune non-digital cable signals.
Larry
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| Post 3 made on Monday December 10, 2001 at 16:24 |
sport Founding Member |
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Most cable systems transmit their analog and digital cables on the same wire. Your house should have both feeds coming into it. Your digital cable box is basically a switch that allows you to view the digital portion on the transmission. Try this. At your wall plate, install a small piece of RG-6 to a two-way splitter. Then, from the outputs of the splitter, run one line to your digital cable box, and from your digital cable box to your tv. Then, from the second output of the splitter, run directly to the tv. Now, you have both tuners in your tv hooked up, one for digital, your primary viewing source, and the second to your analog cable which will serve as your pip window.
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| Post 4 made on Monday December 10, 2001 at 16:35 |
foamman Founding Member |
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Make sure the splitter you are using is compatible with digital cable. Otherwise you will lose your digital cable or some of the capabilities digital offers. Please note I speak from experiance.
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| Post 5 made on Tuesday December 11, 2001 at 05:20 |
sport Founding Member |
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Your only qualification for this is that the splitter should be in the 5-950mhz or 5-1ghz operating range. These are not expensive, $5 from your local Radio Shack
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