this would be used by a House that has soley a Antenna and DTV conver boxes. This would be used to amplify an entire house. Will it work?
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It will strengthen the signal that you are distributing through you house. I do not know how well it will work in your situation, but it should make marginal signals better..
579119
i´m very disapointed of the performance of the 36db amplifier because I connected to the cable TV service and I don¨t got good response.Another Amps,Radio Shack for instance, works fine. I don¨t recommend to buy this one which do not have any Warranty. About Power supplies, Amazon never states voltages in all electronic devices. My suggestion is to put 110V - 220V or the last Autovolt; for this reason I do not buy any more electric devices. J. Humberto Gamboa (Bolivia)
579120
Each junction will reduce signal strength but if you place the amplifier where there is decent signal strength it will increase the signal downstream. I placed mine beyond 2 sets that were working well and it boosted the signal to remaining 2 sets at the end of the house furthest from the antenna. Previously I had run a separate antenna to the orphan sets. The amplifier boosted the signal exactly 36 db according to the signal strength meter on my set. Worth a try.
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From my personal experience, I was very disappointed in the performance of the amplifier. The reception of several stations are fine, with a couple of weak stations. The picture quality was the same on all of the tv stations, with or without the amplifier. I also tried it on 2 other television sets with the same results. Even switching in and out the FM attenuator had no influence on the picture quality (In the remote chance that we had an interfering FM radio station.) Without any real test equipment to verify my conclusions, the bottom line is, does the picture look better on the television with the amplifier? The answer to that I would have to say no from my experience. From my personal experience, I was very disappointed in the performance of the amplifier. The reception of several stations are fine, with a couple of weak stations. The picture quality was the same on all of the tv stations, with or without the amplifier. I also tried it on 2 other television sets with the same results. Even switching in and out the FM attenuator had no influence on the picture quality (In the remote chance that we had an interfering FM radio station.) Without any real test equipment to verify my conclusions, the bottom line is, does the picture look better on the... » Read More From my personal experience, I was very disappointed in the performance of the amplifier. The reception of several stations are fine, with a couple of weak stations. The picture quality was the same on all of the tv stations, with or without the amplifier. I also tried it on 2 other television sets with the same results. Even switching in and out the FM attenuator had no influence on the picture quality (In the remote chance that we had an interfering FM radio station.) Without any real test equipment to verify my conclusions, the bottom line is, does the picture look better on the television with the amplifier? The answer to that I would have to say no from my experience. « Show Less
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If the signal is decent in the area and it is just the receiver that you're having trouble with yes the antenna will amplify the signal and you should have better results. But if the signal is already noisy and weak you will only be amplifying noise... hope this helped ... Hauser
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You can certainly try using it without amplifier, since you live so close to TV stations. I live 45 miles a away from TV antennas. So I used the amplifier.
2012183
I assume it would work fine with the amplified signal. I use an amplified antenna - small built in to the indoor antenna. I am not sure how many db it would support, but my educated guess is that it would work fine.
579081
It will work better than any other inside the home antenna that you would see at the store. Be sure to have it as high as you can up there, and pointed toward the broadcasting towers. I have mine outside, and pick up stations 60 miles away.
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Yes, that is exactly what I am using one of the two I bought to do. And, yes, an amplifier will help you be able to tune in weaker channels as well. I am using an amplifier to do that as well, without it sometimes one of my weaker channels will drop out ... and if that happens at the beginning of a show time it will cause my DVR to skip recording the entire show. So I use the combiner to connect two OTA antennas pointed in different directions and then boost the signal strength. Hope that helps you to solve your problems.
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I am by no means an AV expert. This amplifier was recommended to me by our AV guy in order to amplify the sound for distribution into several rooms in which we have speakers. We primarily use this amp in connection with an Apple TV device to play music from our iPhone or iPad in our kitchen, den, family room and outside speakers. Hope this response is helpful for you. Kind Regards, Robert
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You could but it really works best as a single-TV unit. When you start to divide the signal amongst other gear the quality goes downa bit. An amp would help as CC58 pointed out. The in-house coaxial hookup is a decent idea.
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It should work as you desire; this is the intention of this product, to repeat a single AV input signal to multiple AV outputs. It repeats video and audio signal with good quality; I cannot notice the signal is being repeated. I use this equipment to feed a DVD recorder, an AV transmiter and a LCD TV with single signal from TV set top box.
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I would assume it should, I would check with your cable provider to be sure. I have Comcast in my area and they advised me that as long as it has two-way signal capability it should work. I did my layout so it would work with the cable modem and the tv set boxes that Comcast has us use. I needed the signal booster to get a better signal to the back of the house so the one tv would keep from getting a channel box error from a weak signal. Hope this helps.
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I mounted it on my roof but did not get good reception. It was very sporadic depending on the weather. It should work with a splitter, however, if both TV's are on at the same time, I would guess that you would get some signal degradation.
590859
It should be perfect for that use. I have a cable box hooked up to an old TV and it works great.
2217931
This device should work, however, if your TV isn't capable of outputting high quality sound (Dolby, DTS, etc) your receiver audio may sound not as good as it could be but it should work.
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I think it would work fine, however being in the basement may require an amplified antenna for better reception. This antenna works but is not "multi directional" imo as it gets different signals based on the direction it faces.
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No it only works for over the air signals (OTA). And DO NOT buy this box! The company has shut down the DVR service and abandoned all its customers.
2107759
I'm not at all familiar with that unit, but that doesn't stop me from having an opinion. It's a question of the antenna. Can you unplug the antenna wire (transmission line) from the TV? If so, then you have an antenna jack on the TV which can be used for plugging in a much larger antenna, instead. Plugging in anything from bookshelf-mounted rabbit ears to a rooftop-mounted antenna would be an improvement over the little antenna supplied with the little TV. But you're allowed to plug a bigger antenna into a little TV, if the little TV has an antenna jack. If you can unplug the little included antenna and have an antenna jack on the side of the TV, I would recommend bringing the TV into a Radio Shack, let the teenage salespeople there identify the jack on your TV, and see what they have to offer that will plug in there. Even your little antenna may perform better if you park it against a window -- more radio waves get through the glass windows than through the walls, so the signals are a little stronger against the windows. Try a window on each compass point of your house. Signals are also stronger upstairs (if you have one), and it couldn't hurt to experiment with bringing the TV outside where there are even fewer walls to block the TV signals. The AV In jack would be (for instance) for playing a DVD player through the little TV. The AV Out jack would be for hooking up a bigger TV to play what's on your little TV screen. In either case, neither of those are what you need for receiving more TV channels. What you need is an improved antenna situation. Another strategy for getting more TV stations is to move closer to the inner city, where the broadcast towers are located. TV reception is challenging out in the country. Peace, -Neil-
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Could be used, but not an optimum choice. This is for satellite TV, not broadcast RF.