opposite of an RF Modulator?

May 20, 2010 23 Replies

It has been pretty well established that the best possible display in a HDTV is with a Blu--Ray player and an HDMI connection. It goes without saying that the HDTV must be capable of 1080P performance (although all intelligent people agree that 1080I is pretty darn close), with lower resolutions (of both the source signal and the native resolution of the display) giving poorer results.

What is often ignored is the fact that an antenna that gives a good signal and a broadcaster that does not limit their signal quality in a number of ways (IE, broadcasting in 720P) will give a picture that is ALMOST as good as Blu-ray. The chief deficiency is, of course, that OTA broadcasts are either 1080I or 720P.

Given the OP's desire NOT to run additional cables, and a desire for sharing top quality signals with all TVs, it thus follows that he must use an ATSC modulator for each source and combine them onto the single coax.

PlainBill

*+-I don't know if those outputs are made to drive -multiple- sets. *+-I believe they are only 1:1.

Ouch. Pet peeve.

I had learned to "design fan out of five", so I had a y-connector using 2,3,8,20 RS232 pins for terminal and printer to modem. Then in

1983 I got an Epson computer, and they didn't support fan-out of five. It was more like 150% instead of 500%.

THe Fan out of five equipment was all American made. So I never bought the "Japanese quality" myth. (My family has been orginal owner for twenty years each on five USA-made V8 cars built 1960-1980.)

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snipped-for-privacy@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote in news:htq3v8$a0r$ snipped-for-privacy@reader1.panix.com:

I believe the outputs are 75 ohm impedance,a coax type transmission line,that you can't drive parallel multiple 75 ohm loads. It's not a matter of "fan-out".

Now if you had 75ohm loop-thru inputs like many professional video units,then you just terminate the end unit in 75 ohms,and it would all work fine.

Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com

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