Thread: Multiple TV's using NTL STB
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Old 08-12-2004, 20:06   #7
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Re: Multiple TV's using NTL STB
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Originally Posted by gooner4life
Yes it can, as noise is then sent back from the extra TV and cabling and affects the noise level that the STB is happily working on.

Believe me ive seen enough dodgy splitters cause picture quality issues to last me a life time and each one got charged for the privalege of me removing the DIY splitter and providing a service to 1 tv which they were paying for.
But the RF output of the STB is designed -- or at least, should be designed -- to cope with the "noisy" TVs you'd be connecting to the other end. I don't disagree that a bad DIY splitter job could lead to a bad picture, but it would more likely be "snowing" or some other analogue effect. Unless the STBs are spectacularly badly designed, what you connect the the RF output shouldn't be able to cause digital effects like blockiness and freezing pictures.
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