Non-simultaneous Multi-room

oisinaodh

Hi,

I am considering getting digital cable and am wondering if it is possible to do non-simultaneous multi-room in an ad-hoc fashion. The house currently has cable points in a number of different rooms but I would not want to go to the expense of having a decoder in every room so what I am wondering is is it possible to have the digital cable fed to the currently installed coax via a splitter(s) and then to move the decoder from room to room as desired. Basically what I am asking is how portable is the decoder or is their some other technical reason why this wouldn't work ? For example, I currently have a very small portable DVD player so if I'm watching a DVD in one room and someone else wants to use the room I can just carry the player to a different room and continue watching. Presumably the digital cable is just another signal which would be connected to my existing coax segments so I could just carry the decoder from room to room as desired? Or would the splitters cause signal degradation that would affect picture quality?

Thanks,

Usjes

Kensington

Once you use good quality splitters and cable, and the signal from the point in each room is strong enough, you shouldn't have any issues moving the decoder from room to room.