John Stoffel wrote:
Before we had a splitter in the analog cable, with one feed going to the TV directly, the other going to the TiVo. This way we could watch live TV (commercials and all!) when the TiVo was recording something we wanted, but didn't want to watch at the moment.
Now that we have digital cable, I don't think I'm going to be able to do this anymore. Dammit. This is an oversight/gotcha that I didn't realize.
I'll see how much extra it will cost to get another digital set top box, which I'll dedicate to my TiVo's use I think. :] I dunno... maybe there's a way to do this. Anyone know for sure if the Scientific Atlanta set top box has analog output of *all* channels, so I can just tune up and down using the TV tunner? Even if I don't get over channel 99 on there, I'd be ok with that.
I suspect (strongly) that it doesn't work that way and that I'm screwed, sorta. Not terrible actually, but annoying.
Actually, it does. If you throw a splitter in, you'll find that all of the analog signals are still there just as before. One thing you'll need to be aware of, though, is that depending on where you put them, adding in too many splitters will now degrade the signal quality for your phone as well as just your television picture, so make sure you give the phone box priority. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC