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In Reply to: Now that we have switched over, I've lost CBS OTA posted by Jack G on June 26, 2009 at 13:35:04:
I have not paid much attention as I don't watch TV often. I've never had cable or satellite or the desire to get them. I rescanned my channels after the cutover on each of my TVs. I am in Northern, VA and have a 10 ft. antenna in the attic with a preamp and pointed it so I can get Balt. and DC before digital TV. PBS was in a slightly different direction and after digital TV I got a small 4 bay bow tie in the attic where I had an extra lead going to the main system. I had dual coax run when the house was built (1997) and had two leads going downstairs to the grand rm. and master br. I then split the master br and it goes to the basement where it gets split again to feed the basement TV, the office and the kitchen. I have dual coax running from the grand rm back to the attic to feed the 3 upstairs brs and the loft,
In the days of analog TV, I had slight overload on CBS so I played with my variable rate attenuator and determined 6db would solve the problem so I bought a 6db inline attenuator that has been sitting up there for years. After reading you post I took a quick look at the bedroom TV and 9-1 is fine and I had a slight buy annoying issue as you described on 9-2 (which I don't really care about). I went back upstairs and put the variable rate attenuator back in and noticed no difference with 3db of attenuation and then I took it out altogether and noticed no difference with no attenuation. I stuck back the 6db attenuator for now. I'll revisit the issue when I'm watching at some point in the main system in the grand rm (too bright for daytime TV anyway so I have a projector).
I can make one observation. Don't know what you're using as a tuner. I had a first generation Samsung SIR-T150 in the main system up until a year or so back when I got an HDMI projector. I got the Samsung 260 (which is now closed out too). I moved the older unit to the office as it has a VGA out I use on the PC monitor's 2nd input. I had bought many years back a (2nd) used SIR-T150 w/o the remote for the basement (I had an old 64 inch rear proj.) at the time and I'll use the basement for daytime sporting events on weekends (more often during football season). I put a lower end front proj. (right before I got main system proj ) in the basement with an 88 inch screen and a PS3 to get my feet wet with Blu-Ray. On occasion the SIR-T150 would not hold a station right and I'd have to power it off and back on. I decided to see if I can get another Samsung 260 and Best Buy was closing out open box ones for $49.99. I bought it last week. Huge difference on pulling in signals. I bought cheapo converter boxes at Wal-Mart (basically $10 each after the Govt. coupon) when the Govt. coupon program first started, I have a very old 19 inch TV and a 13 inch TV I used to use in the kitchen. I was not especially impressed with the reception but don't care as the upstairs gets used perhaps once ever 2-3 years on avg. So if you're using an older tuner see if you can get a 260 at Best Buy (I might buy another one if I find one at that price just to have a spare).
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