MadMANN
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join:2005-08-19
 ·Comcast
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Re: About Damn Time
My idea of a "whole house box" would be something similar to what DISH has in their dual tuner boxes. One box runs two TVs via a UHF remote.
Why not a quad/six/eight tuner box in the utility closet with a house cable for each set connected to the back of it? Each set would get its own UHF remote, operating at different freqs similar to what a cordless phone does currently.
Make that box a DVR and you have the ability to watch your recordings in any room in the house.
"I have a dream." -MLK  |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs: | That would be great as long as they can figure out how to finally modulate stereo sound over coax! That seems to be really difficult for them, but yet we put a man on the moon? Who'd a thunk it? |
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russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA
| Stereo over coax? Not even difficult, either analog or digital. Digital would be S/PDIF or the professional equivalent, or QAM-256 with MPEG if you're wanting video also. Analog would be some subcarrier technique like FM uses (you can send FM radio over coax).
Here's an analog product:
»www.smarthome.com/7702st1.html |
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:
| True not difficult. Our analog boxes used to do this all the time. But NONE of the digital boxes by Motorola or Scientific Atlanta modulate a stereo signal over channel 3 or 4. So many cable installers just bring coax and hook the box up via the Ch 3/4 input. Many customers don't even realize they are not getting the full sound output.
I've used both boxes Motorola and SA, and the only way I could get stereo sound is to use RCA cables. |
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