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Originally Posted by Saneboy13
Stuart,
I totally understand what you are saying, but at the end of the day when you have a service call from a customer about poor pictures and you tip up only to find a "Y" splitter is duff or an amplifier has gone U/S, I personally take a dim view on any one doing this kind of thing.
I know you will say "but what's the chance of that happening?", I would counter that with 1 time is too many. The truth of the matter is that it happens more often than not. People also don't know about doing it off the output of the VCR or TV and tend to put any kind of connection "Before" it gets into the STB, and the rubbish that throws out onto the Network is a huge headache.
As I say it's my opinion about splitting the feed to other TV's. If you want TV in other rooms then either pay for extra Digi boxes or just have an aerial run there
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I can understand where you are coming from, however, in my experience (I have a Tivo connected to the TV and STB), if you have picture quality problems, NTL just blame any extra equipment you have added. Either that, or the CSR asks you to disconnect it first.
Splitting the feed BEFORE it gets to the STB wasn't what the OP was talking about though. He or She was talking about splitting either the Scart or RF Outputs AFTER they leave the STB.
Now, unless I am much mistaken, it would take some soldering for someone to be able to attach a Scart splitter or Aerial input for a TV directly to the network.
I stand by my point though. If something someone attaches to either the RF out or the Scart sockets on the STB causes interference on the network, then the STB needs replacing.