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Re: Where is the problem likely to be?

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Subject: Re: Where is the problem likely to be?
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by: Tabby - Sat, 27 May 2023 23:33 UTC

On Sunday, 28 May 2023 at 00:24:39 UTC+1, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> On 27/05/2023 22:39, micky wrote:
> > All my tv's run off a central location, which used to include cable but
> > now has a DVDR with an amplified antenna that brings in my city and the
> > next one.
> >
> > One tv is supplied a signal through a splitter/amp and a cable, and the
> > sound is fine.
> >
> > The kitchen tv has lately developed bad sound. Words are intelligible
> > but sort of staticy or distorted. Sometimes it's worse than others.
> > Its signal is supplied through the same splitter/amp, another splitter,
> > another splitter/amp, and a long cable,
> >
> > If you were a betting man, where would the most likely problem be, in
> > the kitchen TV (which is 20 or so years old), the cable, or that second
> > amp, which has been sitting on the basement floor and running
> > constantly, needing no attention, for 39 years?
> >
> Hi Micky,
>
> The TV. Try moving it to the other location to check.

maybe it's a massive crt set puttied into a big hole in the wall. There must be some reason he hasn't checked that already.

> If there were a problem with the cable or splitter amp, you would be
> seeing picture and sound disturbances possibly also on other outlets.

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