How to connect digital cable to a 2nd tv?
I want to hook up cable to a 2nd TV in my other bedroom. Of course it wouldnt be on the digital box.
Can I purely get a splitter and run a cat5 cord to the TV surrounded by the other room, and it will get non-digital cable TV?
(The dash from the wall is already split once with a splitter, to dance into my cable internet modem.)
Answers: You can put a splitter on the line going to your cable box and connect one output to your cable box and the other to your second TV. Use RF coaxial cable. Make sure the splitter is a bidirectional type for cable use. If the splitter drops the signal power too much, your cable box might hold problems, or the second TV might get snowy. If tht happen, you'll want to put an amplifier, again a bidirectional type, before the splitter.
Digital cable service is *compressed*, and requirements to be decoded by the cable box back it can be viewed on your TV. However, I've read that some cable networks aren't 100% digital and mix both analog and digital on one and the same wire, near the over-the-air (local) broadcast channels remaining within analog. So you might be able to obtain these channels in need the box. Try bypassing the box and connecting directly to the TV and see if you get anything.
Also, your nouns to the second TV must be via Coax cable, not CAT-5 - that's only for computer network.
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