I have a plasma 42" inch hd tv in my living room. I obviously use this for watching hd tv as well as playing games (online) on my xbox360. What kind of splitter/combiner/switcher do I need to get to maintain the HD quality tv while my internet connection is active?
2007-05-04 05:05:49 · 5 answers · asked by Michael N 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
You HD cable is pure digital signal transmitted by the cable company. It should not be affected by the splitter or switcher unless the line noise is so bad that the digital signal gets corrupted wich is unlikely. If putting a splitter or switcher does give you corrputed picture while your watching the TV then you should have the cable guy come out and measure the signal strengh and any noise in the line from outside to inside.
2007-05-04 19:13:01 · answer #1 · answered by IKNOWALL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your cable company should run a dedicated line to your modem from the source feed going into your home. The rest of the house really should have a filter to block the cable modem frequencies. Call the cable company.
2007-05-04 06:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by shake_um 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing special a normal splitter will do. I have comcast cable and i have my line split about 4 different ways or so. For example your cable modem is just basically like another TV. If you are watching TV in a different room you dont lose your HD signal to your main TV
2007-05-04 05:15:13 · answer #3 · answered by D R 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
None.
The cable system and the cable internet run on separate frequencies. One should be transparent to the other anyways because the digital box is "tuning" the TV and your cable modem is "tuning" the internet... in a manner of speaking, which physically separates the two.
***EDIT***
I work for the cable company, in IT. We dont run separate lines into peoples houses, there is no need theres a dedicated 6mhz of bandwidth that we use for download and another for upload, which is the equivalent of 6ish digital channels, your cable box, when plugged in connects to your cable company and asks for a config file, which is automated by what youre paying for, and only allows and programs in those channels you pay for, since internet runs on the same lines thats like saying that if you dont pay for HBO or some other channels, that your signal will be worse on your TV or that they would have to put a filter on it to keep you from seeing those channels. I could go more in depth but thats the basics of it.
2007-05-04 05:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by D L 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
sounds like its on overload with what u want it to do, just a lucky guess on my end.
2016-04-01 08:20:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋