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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
Ok what about this. Will require a seperate receiver for every channel you want to receive but accomplishes the single cable problem. Run the cable in and split it for each receiver. Tune each receiver to a specific channel then run into a modulator assigning a channel number. From there into a combiner putting all the outputs back into a single cable and into your television. Now you change channels with the TV like a cable system.
Would be much easier and cheaper to run 2 cables though  Not to mention I have got major signal degradation running multiple receivers from a single output of a lnbf. |
THe above is OK, but one receiver would have to choose the polarity, and the 2nd receiver could only tune channels on the same polarity.
However the reason I'm responding is relative to the "major signal degradation running multiple receivers from a single output" thing. I too have noticed significant loss of signal when using "most" splitters, but I get almost no noticeable degradation when using the passthroughs that most DVB receivers have.
For example, I'm using a sllitter to divide signal between my
C-band and DVB receivers, and that results in nearly 50% loss of signal at times. However the signal, which goes to my Ultra then goes on to my Twinhan, and then on to either my Broadlogic or on to my DCII receiver, and there is no noticeable difference in signal strength at the DCII receiver between going through the Ultra and Twinhan vs going direct to the splitter.
So I think the above would work better by using the pass-throughs (with DC-blocks of course) than by using a splitter.
This topic has made me think, however...... I have one splitter, which instead of doing a 50/50 split, does something like an 80/20 or 90/10. Since I almost never watch analog anymore, I'm tempted to run the analog receiver through the 20% leg (assuming it will let me pass power that way, I can't remember). That way, I'll have better signal for my digital receivers.
I'm going to have to pull out my 80/20 splitter and see if that will work.