When I bought my plasma in December, I insisted on a new 8300HD DVR and that's what I got... drop shipped directly from SA with their tape sealing the box. I was happy.
Then a few weeks into things I noticed my HD channels starting to pixelate along with corresponding diginoise. It was intermittent but enough to ruin a football game so I wanted someone to come out and address this low signal. Regular tier digitals were fine but from time to time 1080 source material would break up so I was guessing signal loss.
So yesterday, they installed an Antronix ARA4-8 house amp that is "mansion sized" and I was told that I shouldn't have any more problems. This sucker is powered through a powered splitter that pulls 12VDC from a wall wort over coax. Everything looked great off the bat. I was happy.
Then, I get home yesterday evening and notice that audio is dropping on 1080 stuff again. I also notice that the 8300 seems to be making a lot of nose like electrical humming. Also, when I tune to a channel, it takes 5-6 seconds to resolve the picture, long enough that my tv thinks the signal is gone and flashed the input info in the corner. I also had one of the "INHD" channels freeze in a psychadellic digital mess for about 15 seconds. That scarred me enough to turn everything off.
Does anyone think it's possible that this amp somehow fried my SA8300? I ended up bypassing the amp and splitting directly off the dropline last night and things seem stable. However, it still takes WAY to long to tune a channel in (analog and digital).
Here's my setup now:
Time Warner>RG6drop>two-way splitter>RG6>SA8300HDDVR>HDMI>Panasonic TH-50PX60U
The contractors set me up like this yesterday:
Time Warner>RG6drop>two-way splitter>RG6>Antronix ARA4-8 amp>SA8300HDDVR>HDMI>Panasonic TH-50PX60U
The two-way sends a line directly to the cable modem. I unplugged the 8300 and rebooted and also called the office to have them send a reboot signal. Still tuning chanels extremely slow.
Then a few weeks into things I noticed my HD channels starting to pixelate along with corresponding diginoise. It was intermittent but enough to ruin a football game so I wanted someone to come out and address this low signal. Regular tier digitals were fine but from time to time 1080 source material would break up so I was guessing signal loss.
So yesterday, they installed an Antronix ARA4-8 house amp that is "mansion sized" and I was told that I shouldn't have any more problems. This sucker is powered through a powered splitter that pulls 12VDC from a wall wort over coax. Everything looked great off the bat. I was happy.
Then, I get home yesterday evening and notice that audio is dropping on 1080 stuff again. I also notice that the 8300 seems to be making a lot of nose like electrical humming. Also, when I tune to a channel, it takes 5-6 seconds to resolve the picture, long enough that my tv thinks the signal is gone and flashed the input info in the corner. I also had one of the "INHD" channels freeze in a psychadellic digital mess for about 15 seconds. That scarred me enough to turn everything off.
Does anyone think it's possible that this amp somehow fried my SA8300? I ended up bypassing the amp and splitting directly off the dropline last night and things seem stable. However, it still takes WAY to long to tune a channel in (analog and digital).
Here's my setup now:
Time Warner>RG6drop>two-way splitter>RG6>SA8300HDDVR>HDMI>Panasonic TH-50PX60U
The contractors set me up like this yesterday:
Time Warner>RG6drop>two-way splitter>RG6>Antronix ARA4-8 amp>SA8300HDDVR>HDMI>Panasonic TH-50PX60U
The two-way sends a line directly to the cable modem. I unplugged the 8300 and rebooted and also called the office to have them send a reboot signal. Still tuning chanels extremely slow.
