mchiper
09-22-2003, 07:06 AM
In alt.home.automation, Msg ID: <WETua.154292$kYH.36888@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>
"Don Vega" <donnyvega@yahoo.ca>, wrote:
I have a newbie question for all you experts. I had my new home "smartwired." I understand what to do with the phone line, the cable and theEthernet but I have no idea what to do with the second cable. Right now itis just bundled outside my Leviton box. I've heard that you can use it toplay dvd's from one room in another, and watch digital cable in a separateroom from the box. From an uneducated point of view this doesn't make sensebecause how can you watch digital cable from the same receiver on twoseparate TV's? All this to say, I need help understanding how I can getbenefit out of this wire. Thanks to all in advance.
You have several cables coming into your house.
One is the power cable.
- It carries the power that goes to all your elrctrical outlets.
- It also carries the X10 signals you send/receive for Home automation.
Another is the phone line/cable
- It carries power and signals that go to all your phone outlets.
- It's your connection to Telco services.
Another is your "TV" cable
It carries
- All the TV channel signals, some need a cable box to decode.
- A wideband digital network signal. Your connection to the www, etc.
- A telephone network signal. Your connection to Cable phone services.
- Signals that enable pay per view and other premium channel services.
o If you have a digital box you can use it to subscibe to these services.
o If you don't you must call and wait till they enable it on your box.
It takes a splitter to send the cable signals to other TVs
Or to a cable modem for that matter, in which case it must be the
very FIRST splitter after the cable enters the house.
- It needs as much badwidth as it can get.
You need a separate cable box on every TV on which you
want to be able to choose any channel to watch.
You don't need ANY cable boxes if you don;t use the
Super PREMIUM services.. (60 or so channels in my area)
FYI if you go for anything cheaper, they put a filter on the pole.
That means a bandit box wont work.
A cable box puts the selected channel on channels 3 or 4,
decoded or not, as the case may be.
It takes a splitter and a separate cable to send THAT signal to other TVs.
You can use an A/B switch to select which of two cables
a particular TV uses.. It can only use one cable at a time.
Newer "digital" TVs or those for Home theaters,
may do the job at the remote. (It's just one more switch..:)
--
Ray
"Don Vega" <donnyvega@yahoo.ca>, wrote:
I have a newbie question for all you experts. I had my new home "smartwired." I understand what to do with the phone line, the cable and theEthernet but I have no idea what to do with the second cable. Right now itis just bundled outside my Leviton box. I've heard that you can use it toplay dvd's from one room in another, and watch digital cable in a separateroom from the box. From an uneducated point of view this doesn't make sensebecause how can you watch digital cable from the same receiver on twoseparate TV's? All this to say, I need help understanding how I can getbenefit out of this wire. Thanks to all in advance.
You have several cables coming into your house.
One is the power cable.
- It carries the power that goes to all your elrctrical outlets.
- It also carries the X10 signals you send/receive for Home automation.
Another is the phone line/cable
- It carries power and signals that go to all your phone outlets.
- It's your connection to Telco services.
Another is your "TV" cable
It carries
- All the TV channel signals, some need a cable box to decode.
- A wideband digital network signal. Your connection to the www, etc.
- A telephone network signal. Your connection to Cable phone services.
- Signals that enable pay per view and other premium channel services.
o If you have a digital box you can use it to subscibe to these services.
o If you don't you must call and wait till they enable it on your box.
It takes a splitter to send the cable signals to other TVs
Or to a cable modem for that matter, in which case it must be the
very FIRST splitter after the cable enters the house.
- It needs as much badwidth as it can get.
You need a separate cable box on every TV on which you
want to be able to choose any channel to watch.
You don't need ANY cable boxes if you don;t use the
Super PREMIUM services.. (60 or so channels in my area)
FYI if you go for anything cheaper, they put a filter on the pole.
That means a bandit box wont work.
A cable box puts the selected channel on channels 3 or 4,
decoded or not, as the case may be.
It takes a splitter and a separate cable to send THAT signal to other TVs.
You can use an A/B switch to select which of two cables
a particular TV uses.. It can only use one cable at a time.
Newer "digital" TVs or those for Home theaters,
may do the job at the remote. (It's just one more switch..:)
--
Ray