[ale] OT: Letter to AT&T Broadband re Channel Removal

[Charles Marcus]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fletch at freebie.phydeaux.org
> [mailto:fletch at freebie.phydeaux.org]On
> Behalf Of Fletch
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:41 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Letter to AT&T Broadband re Channel Removal
>         As I understand it, you'll need a receiver for each TV.
> There's a DirecTV dish and one receiver kit available for $49 and a
> dish and two receivers kit for $99 (this comes from my visit to Best
> Buy) yesterday.  This is a dual LNB dish (it can tune into two
> satelites simultaneously, so you can have different receivers watching
> channels which come off two different signals).  If you have more than
> two receivers you need to get some sort of switch which handles
> multiplexing the signal requests to the dish.  BB had one of these
> that would support 4 devices (I think) for ~$75.  Don't know if one is
> included in a professional installation if you get enough receivers at
> once or not. (I wanted to ask about this as I possibly would have
> three TVs hooked up, but being Best Buy there wasn't anyone around to
> ask :)
>
> --
> Fletch

You can feed multiple TVS off of one receiver, but they all watch the same
channel that is selected on the receiver.  If you have more than 3 or so,
you'll probably want to get a Dist amp to keep the signal strong.

Charles



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