[Shop-talk] TV converter box

[Benjamin Zwissler]

I had the same issue several years ago when our area switched.  I
initially went to satellite (Dish) their boxes had  HD out and, on a
separate tuner, a analog RF signal that could be sen out over the
existing coax.  I plugged that into the houses old coax network and
could tune the box from any room with their RF remotes.  It worked
pretty good, but non-HD only.

I've since switched back to cable, only because I wanted faster
internet than DSL (AT&T) could provide.  I do a similar thing with
Comcast's "cheap" tuner.  They're $2.99 a month and have a HD and a RF
output from the same tuner.  The HD goes to the TV by the box and the
RF goes to the old cable wiring.  I can feed multiple TVs this way as
long as I don't care about HD.

Ben.......

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Jim Juhas <james.f.juhas at snet.net> wrote:
> The shop content for this is that I presently have TVs in my work space.
>
> My cable provider has announced the move to "all digital" requiring one
> of their boxes at each TV, regardless of the TV's digital cable
> readiness.  I have coax to multiple locations in my house and shop and
> don't want to rent ANY boxes from them, let alone the seven I would need
> for this, plus in at least one location with a 7" screen, a corner in
> our kitchen, the box will be bigger than the digital TV.  Are there any
> alternatives?  Is there a digital equivalent to the old analog block
> converters?  Or will my digital TVs actually still see the digital
> signals, just not at the same place on the "dial."
> --
> Low Tech Jim
>
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