Recent content by brantlew

I'm not aware of any notch attenuators?? You might be able to construct something like it if you use a splitter, an attenuator, a notch filter and a combiner. The idea being that you would split the signal and attenuate one side and then recombine just the notch frequencies back into the...

It's hard to tell exactly what you are doing from your message, but if you are trying to piggyback OTA signals with satellite signals you will need to use diplexers. Diplexers mix low OTA frequencies and high sat frequencies and then can split them back apart on the bottom end. If you don't...

I think it all comes down to screen size. Unless you are planning to use your tv as a computer monitor and sit 2 feet from it, I don't think you can really distinguish the pixels on a native 720 screen less than 35 inches across at normal television viewing distances. So for the mid and...

Agree with Kong. Even on regular DVD there are few movies that envelop you in surround sound the way that jungle scenes do. I think subtle effects are far more impressive when showing off sound equipment than bombastic explosions and action which are typically too loud to be directionally...

Personally, I think it's overkill. You just don't need that much storage for movie content. I guess you could offer totally lossless encoding but basically nobody would be able to see the difference. I just don't see how you could market it to anyone as there would be no qualitative...

You should consider the CVT28PIA II. Unlike most amps that isolate the outputs it has only -10dB isolation between the posts which allows you to use it as a backfeed distribution hub. You can just shoot your signals back up the line from any point in the home and distribute them to every other...

I guess I don't understand your setup that well because it sounds simple. It sounds like you just need to put a regular coax splitter/combiner in there. Just attach UHF antenna to one leg and the combined UHF modulated channels to the other leg and then connect the combined UHF signal to your...

I don't. I think it's pretty good, but I just think it is a niche market available to technophiles with patience where as the market for 2GB downloads and 25 GB disks is broader. Probably bandwidth will catch up in the next 10 years but I don't see it happening before one of the disk formats...

Thanks for all the comments so far. I can buy the fact that download could compete well in the rental market where quality is not important, but not in the ownership market. Sure you can make tradeoffs to squeeze file sizes, but I still think the bandwidth requirements are only accessible to a...

Inevitably when people start arguing about the HD format war someone ends up screaming something to the effect of "well it doesn't really matter because online distribution is going to supersede both formats." Does anyone else besides me think that this is a really dumb argument? The fact is...

No, but I will try it.

Hey installers, I have been wiring a home satellite/OTA distribution system in my home and it has been quite a journey since I knew nothing about it 2 months ago. I have some unexpected behavior from one of my amps and was wondering if someone could explain it to me. I basically have a...

Nothing wrong with diplexing as long as you are intelligent about it. For various reasons I amplify and double diplex my signal (4 diplexers total) and still have solid reception. And for my efforts I was able to get by without running any new cable. Running new cable is not always practical...

The DB-2 is an excellent antenna and with a little ingenuity is small enough to disguise indoors.

I disagree. If an indoor works for you and you can receive all the stations that you are interested in without reception problems then there is no easier way to get OTA HD and anything more is just added complexity. Maybe you and I are technophiles so we don't mind dealing with gain, insertion...