<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:28 AM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks Khalid.<br>
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Would be interested to know if anything changes if you terminated the splitter. <a href="http://www.homedepot.ca/product/cable-tv-coax-terminator/941326" target="_blank">http://www.homedepot.ca/product/cable-tv-coax-terminator/941326</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br>Interesting.<br><br></div><div>With the existing 3 way splitter, I wanted to use the third OUT to go to the radio receiver, but even with an outdoor antenna, the Toronto channel I want does not come in. But if I decide later to hook something else, it would be handy, e.g. HDHomeRun tuner. <br>
<br><a href="http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815345012">http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815345012</a><br><br></div><div>Since the 3 way at Home Depot has a wider frequency range, and it allows power injection as well, I am inclined to try it and inject the power on the third output, and remove the power injector that came with the KT200. This way, there is one less connection in the path, and perhaps a couple of dB saved (per the advice of others in another thread).<br>
<br>If I find there is no difference, then I may try the terminator.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">For $48, it seems worth it for the tuner alone, vis a vis standalone tuner costs. (If one's TV, like mine, doesn't have an ATSC tuner.) Take the two channels one gets with a coat hanger, and run with it. [If not ready to pursue to the extent you were motivated to.]<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is the other use for that PVR: a digital converter box for exactly your case. The bonus is that it will record in HD, which you can play on a computer in HD, but not on your TV. <br> <br>
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OTOH, something with Ethernet in would let you take advantage of the web. (XBMC on a stick? With commercial skip and smaller compression options, even? 6GB/hr seems like a lot - HD I'm guessing.) </blockquote><div><br>
</div><div>Yes, it is HD, and yes, it is a lot. But a 2TB disk will hold over 300 hours by my calculation.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Or a netflix box - if / should you ever be so interested. (Unless your TV already has that?) [Let me guess - no netflix capable box has PVR ability?]<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See the HDHomeRun above.<br><br></div>
<div>But I don't know of a solution that can record off of that. It advertizes itself on the LAN as a DLNA device. Don't know of anything that can record off of DLNA. But I have not researched that.<br> <br></div>
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(I sure get though that Job 1 for you was Roger's equivalent so you could kill that bill entirely.)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. In a week or so I will call them to ask for cancellation in July. We will see.<br>
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