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I particularly like the ability to plug in a modulated signal - this unit has two modulator ports. I have had a number of Channel Plus products in the past, and all have worked well for me. It works great with Channel Plus modulators. This product was no exception. It is small, easy to install and simple to use. I have one installed that puts a camera on one channel and the output from my DVD-R on the other so I can watch my DVDs (or the input signal to the DVDR) in every room of the house. I recommend this product highly.David Brown [.].
I was told this amp would "power up" the cable signal for long (70'+) cable runs and would work on TVs and Cable Modems. Great for TVs. Did not work as advertised for my cable modem. Waste of money for what I needed.
I emailed them about the problem and they suggested I call it in to technical support for a warranty replacement. I read someone else had a similar problem.
I've had a lot of problems with digital breakup with WOW Cable and this appeared to help. I've bought a lot of Channel Plus products in the past and figured this would be the best splitter I could find.
After that it just stopped powering up. It worked great for a week or two and then would power off.
I'd recycle the power and get 24-48 hours and then it would power off again. Hopefully just a bad batch.
The DA8200 has a five year warranty.
What worries me is that the tech ask me to do some odd things to prove it was dead. I was feeding my comcast digital box and 3 PC tuner cards. I noticed on the day before it died that a progam recorded on Win MCE was very noisy. So the turn around will be over 2 weeks. I will report back when I get the replacement unit. Next day.dead.
Not have all the outputs used. It worked great for 3 weeks and then wouldn't power up any longer. Not use it close to a plasma TV. They are slow to replace a product and ship back to you Fedex ground from South Carolina. That takes 5-7 business days. So I am concerned now that this amp is touchy and not up to powering the 8 outputs is has.
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I suspect that my incoming cable signal was overloading the amplifier input, but have no way to measure or test the results except to watch the TV, which got sound, but no picture. I would have rated this thing higher but neither I nor Channel Plus Support could tell me how to make it work. I did reduce the input level by running it through a 2-way splitter to the Channel Plus, but no change. It's a great idea -- split your main signal into eight isolated signals with no splitter loss and get rid of all of those old 2-way splitters. Unfortunately, I could not get anything usable to pass through the Channel Plus Bidirectional Distribution Amplifier. Customer support asked me to "cold boot" my set top box and my cable modem after connecting to the distribution system, which I did, and they never responded after I reported negative results. I guess I was beyond helping.
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