Anyone read high magnetic field near cable television line? I read off the charts on the high scale even a foot away from Time Warner cable line.
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I read about 3 milligauss with the meter right against the cable connection at home with Comcast cable. I read off the charts from the electrical receptacle which is about 1 foot away from it though. Maybe your reading something else at the same time?
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every electronic device give off emf. try to limit your expoure to it by moving further away from it.its geometric double your distance and you reduce it by 1/4.
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My XL335M usually has gotten a signal by the time I pull out of the driveway, worst case by the time I leave my subdivision [1 block] it is running. I suppose heavy clouds etc could affect the performance, magnetic fields or microwave signals...I'm not an engineer but imagine the same things that can affect other electronics like a satellite tv dish, gps on a cell phone etc can affect a sat-nav unit.
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How were you able to determine that it was a faulty tuner and not user error? I am going through the same situation, although it is over the air and not cable. I was told that I could plug in a standard antenna and receive digital as well as HD channels due to the HD tuner. Please educate me in this matter as I am not versed in this matter.
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I wish it would have picked up the digital signals today during the test this city had for people to check their tvs. It did not. I picked up the local stations but they were running an alert that "this tv is not ready for digital signals" to all tvs that were not digital. If I put the cable connection on it then it is just fine but my understanding was that this tv had a digital tuner and could pick up digital signals.
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It comes with magnetic antenna. There is also an antenna connector, not sure if this will support coax cable
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It sounds more like the signal source is the problem. If it was within the TV circuitry, all channels would be affected. ihave had no trouble with my TV and it stays at the top of the technical world.
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ok,well,as i just stated in my last post, i have already gone to antennaweb.org.and their information must be taken with a grain of salt.the predictions for what you can and cannot get seem to be educated guesses,but do not pan out (at least in my case). but anyway,i already know that knowing the location of a transmitter generally helps.i only want information on different makes of converter boxes.
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Thanks for replying Steven. The edge issues I was mentioning were on the edges of moving objects, not the edges of the picture, I should have been more specific (although when I played around with picture size I saw what you meant, good to know if I run into that problem in the future). I do think you were right that part of the problem was tiling, I think something was going on with my cable feed, perhaps from the storms in the area after the new TV was delivered??? The picture is looking better these days.
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I live in Chicago with antenna facing south. Here I am able to pick up all the major stations with little interference. For a more accurate answer to what you are trying to figure out, go to Antenna Web, and follow the instructions. Hope this helps. The product is excellent, and for me has proved significantly cheaper than Cable. But I am not a big TV watcher in the first place.
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I am not an expert on this. I did look up my info also on the antennaweb.org site and then took into account the area I live in,. IE buildings heights, mountains and other possible blocking objects.
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The cable is not shielded, it's rated in/outdoor because of the material that is made to resist high temps, I use this cable to connect floors on my town home, The shielded term refers to the protection against electromagnetic interference produced by power lines, electric motors, fluorescent lights, thermostats, and electrical circuits which are found in just about everything these days. If you are running in wall near a power line you may get EMI or noise on the line. If this is for a regular use line then you should be more than fine with this cable if the run you are trying to get is critical than you should consider shielded but remember that the connector will also need to be shielded in order to take advantage of it.
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I don't know, but magnetic shielding is not needed for flat panel TV's. Only the old picture tube sets were affected by magnetic fields.
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I work for Time Warner Cable and have installed many of these. There is something wrong with your set up. Call customer service for help with it. These are great devices.
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I bought this for my husband and he has had no problems with reception at his work place. He uses a Blackberry, which we measured for magnetic field. It was a very high reading (7-20 milligauss) when out of the case. In the case it was within the acceptable range. Hope this helps.
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I bought this item and returned it! They say keep it close to the antenna as possible, also have over 30+ feet of coaxe cable to your set. I had less and it blocked out some stations. After talking to a TV tech, he said for best results get a bigger antenna! I did and now get all the stations from 40 miles away. I recommend a Antennas Direct C2-V-CJM ClearStream 2-V Long Range UHF/VHF Indoor/Outdoor DTV antenna.
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I just had this problem and found this post after searching for a solution. I plugged my coaxial cable into my surge protector and bingo, problem solved. I am using component cables to connect my cable box to my HDTV. I think I'll exchange my box for an HDMI capable box and hopefully that'll solve my problem without using the surge protector.
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It's still possible to have a decent signal. But the factors are what's between points A an B? The density of the blockage and are there any electric transformers.