[mythtv-users] Most tuners in a single machine

Matthew Geier matthew at sleeper.apana.org.au
Sat Mar 4 03:58:31 UTC 2006


Greg Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 16:02 +0100, Chris Rouch wrote:
> 
> 
>>I couldn't split the signal between the tv and a pvr500 without the
>>latter producing a rubbish picture. But I bought a cheap (20 Euro) 2
>>port antenna amplifier and now I can drive 2 pvr500s and get good
>>pictures from both.


> This shows that you can't tell exactly what will happen without actually
> trying it. In my case, even a signal amplifier didn't help; I still
> couldn't split the signal without getting too much degradation.

  My setup at work I could boost the terrestrial signal to run 3 DVB-T 
cards but none of the satelite stuff will cope with being boosted. 
Probably cause the satelite stuff was already boosted at the top end and 
putting a 2nd amp in the chain just amplified noise...
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