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Home audio & video: It's snowing in my bedroom (on the TV)

by techbrute - 12/18/07 8:07 PM
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It's snowing in my bedroom (on the TV)

by techbrute - 12/18/07 8:07 PM

I have 3 TVs and analog cable. I have the drop coming into my house then it goes through a 2-way splitter. The splitter routes to my cable modem and to a 6-way splitter (only 3 cables connected to outputs) in the structured wiring box. While it sounds like this may lead to problems, it has worked well for the 3 years since my house was built. All 3 TVs have had great signal and picture until a few days ago. One of the TVs suddenly has a horrible picture. The lower the channel, the worse the signal. For example, channel 5 is terrible and covered in snow, but channel 55 is watchable. This happened suddenly, it wasn't a slow degredation.

The two other TVs are still great, and the cable modem is still raging fast (6-7Mbps). I've replaced the cable from the wall to the TV, and that did not make a difference. The cable inside the wall is not going to be easy to replace if that's the problem, so I want to exhaust all other options, first.

I'm getting digital cable this Saturday. What are the chances that the digital signal will be good enough to that jack to hide my problem?

Thanks for any help you can offer!

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interchange the outputs at the splitter...

by ahtoi - 12/18/07 11:48 PM In reply to: It's snowing in my bedroom (on the TV) by techbrute

this will determine if it is the splitter or not. As you know, nothing last forever; they do go bad sometime.

Are you going to have digital on all the TV? If yes..my guess is that you will need a box on each tv and splitter may not be require (just guessing).

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Thanks for the help...

by techbrute - 12/19/07 5:40 AM In reply to: interchange the outputs at the splitter... by ahtoi

Unfortunately, changing the connections around at the splitter did not change the situation. I'm dreading the seemingly inevitable conclusion that the cable in the wall is bad...

I am only getting digital TV on the TV that is having the problem in lieu of a box, I have a Tivo HD that will have 2 cable cards in it.

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change splitter

by cableguy1967 - 12/21/07 5:21 PM In reply to: Thanks for the help... by techbrute

replace 6 way splitter with balanced 3 way 5dB loss on each port. if only one TV is snowy it may end up being tuner in tv

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it was the splitter

by techbrute - 12/22/07 6:47 AM In reply to: change splitter by cableguy1967

It was indeed the splitter. Due to some faulty troubleshooting on my part, I missed the problem initially. I went back to troubleshooting one more time before I opened up the wall, and it turns out that there are 2 bad outputs on my splitter. I have 4 good ports still, so I'll wait until they go bad to replace the splitter. When I replace it, should I bother with any sort of amplified distribution system, or stick with a basic splitter. I need at least 6 ports to support the jacks I currently have in the wall, although I don't currently have TVs hooked to 3 of them.

Thanks again for all the help!!

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