Re: high-def over the air

"UCLAN" <nomail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hmmm...a IGHz splitter which does not - according to you - get the upper
frequencies of its band. Sounds bad to me.

I never said the old splitter was a 1 GHz splitter. I don't know what it
was, other than it worked fine for SD, transmitted the lower channel HD
fine, but not the higher channel HD.

No, you said that a 2GHz splitter was needed because the one you put in
fixed the problem caused by a defective 1GHz splitter. By that logic, if
a 4GHz splitter was used and fixed the problem, a 4GHz splitter was
needed.
Intellectual masturbation? Not to those with IQs over 80, it isn't.

I admitted a long time ago that a 1 GHz splitter may been sufficient for
cable application, and that my comment was probably technically incorrect.
But that does not mean that you can carry that analogy to an extreme and
assume that I would purchase something that was way over the top. Not to
mention that Home Depot doesn't even sell splitters above 2.3 GHz. Using
your logic, a person who buys a 2.3 GHz splitter for $6.00 when a 1 GHz
splitter for $2.00 might work fine, would be just as likely to install fiber
optic cabling. Only someone with an IQ of 79 would come to that conclusion.

When I was advised by the cable company technical support that the existing
splitter probably lacked sufficient frequency support for HD (symptom was
the higher channel HD stations could not be received correctly, but the
lower ones worked OK), I went to Home Depot and got a 2.3 GHz splitter for
$6.00 (I had forgotten the price, but just looked it up on the Home Depot
website). If I had it to do over again, I would have bought the same
splitter, since as someone has said a good 1 GHz splitter may be better than
poor 2 GHz splitter. Considering that the splitter was going up in an attic,
It was not worth worrying about $4.00 for slightly over-specking the
splitter.


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