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Oisterboy

So, as some of you might know, I do a lot of retro gaming. To make things convenient for me, I usually use the RF input on my TV. Every RF input has a bypass thing (presumably so you can plug in your cable/antennae still) which I plan on linking up a bunch of times to maximize the amount of systems I can have plugged in.

My question is, how many of these adapters can I have running through eachother before the signal is decreased? I'm assuming its quite a few, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

I have no idea how to go about googling this. If I don't get any answers here, I'll use Yahoo answers.

Thanks bros. Rep to anyone who finds good infurmatiinz.

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Ronin

You can mess up your signal that way, as it's not digital, but that's obvious.

The eqipment is old and most likely not going to give out a very high grad signal; Also a minus.

What you plan to do is not recommended. I don't know from experiance, but you will degrade your signal anywhere from noticable to unusable.

Can't you just buy a splitter with a sufficient number of ports? http://media.uxcell.com/uxcell/image...x0002_ux_c.jpg
Somthing like this for example for coax.

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Oisterboy

I can, but I was just wondering if I could do it the cheaper way haha. Right now I have 3 running through eachother and there isn't really a noticable decrease in quality.

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Ronin

OK I asked some electrical engeniers about the whole idea about it;
Problem is that the output power of the consoles is an unknown and they don't print it on the manual.

That means that it might work, or it might not or it might in a certain combination of arranging the splitters as a tree, rather than linear.

Basically the loss over each splitter adds up. if it's enough to completely cancel the signal out, you won't get anything but noise.

An example that one of my mates told me of was that in a 15 splitter scenario you would deffinitely have no picture at all, that was one he remembered from a lecture. 8 is likely already pushing it (but you don't have a cable length to count in in comparison to a whole building installation), 5 might be pretty ok.

Also the picture overall degrades, but as the old consoles have few colours and low resolution it's probably not very noticable.

Well, that seems to be wrong if I understood my buddies correctly; the spliter loss works logarithmic, which means it cuts the signal down by a multitude (3,5 db loss would be more than halving the signal). The result is that you get either a signal or none. The signal will get worse due to the number of connections in between but not just "bad".

If the signal doesn't get through for one device you can try tricks like building trees with the connectors (loosing slots but making the way the signal travels shorter), or switching the position of the devices around if you arrange them linear, by putting the device that doesn't get trough in a spot nearer to the TV.

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Oisterboy

Ah, thanks a ton dude

I think I'll keep it as it is right now, and pick up a switch before it turns into a problem.

Thanks!

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