I recently wrote about my experience with Tablos difficulty receiving channel 3 ( RF/Actual Frequency ). Tablo says that its internal splitter reduces the signal which may cause reception problems with weak channels. OK, fine but is it equal to my Samsung TV
s tuner? To find out I turned down my antenna amps gain until I got a " weak signal " on Tablo
s live TV and hooked up the Tablos antenna feed to my TV via a Three-way splitter (-7dB OUT) and got a USABLE signal ( picture mostly stable with only a few glitches ). For those people who can receive a channel on their TV but not on their Tablo, I would recommend doing this experiment. Since the tuner may receive some channels better than others, it is important to note the actual channel (RF) rather than the station
s channel number. Another thought. Assuming a 2-channel Tablo has a 2-way splitter and a 4-channel Tablo has a 4-way splitter , is the 4-channel Tablo less able to receive weak signals than a 2-channel Tablo? ( the more you split the signal, the greater the loss ). Just a thought.
I think I recall reading that the original 2 tuner Tablo used the same internal splitter as the 4 tuner version. The new 2 tuner model may have a different design.
Thanks for the feedback, Phil