I just bought a powered antenna (philips mant510)to receive more digital channels, but I think it might be killing my dtv boxes.
The first box (both of them RCA DTA800B1) seemed flaky as is, it wouldn't output on the coax line and would restart prior to me buying the antenna. After I got the new antenna the channels were great for a bit and then the box started to freeze more and eventually refused to start without a power cycle and would quickly freeze when trying to acquire a signal. I chalked it up to a bad box and exchanged it for a new one.
The second one (plugged it in last night) was awesome, again all the channels were coming in clearly and did what I wanted it to do. However, this morning I'm noticing channels lagging/skipping pixels, and sometimes getting a black image. The signal strength meter in the menu still shows as high (~65%) and get a clear picture for a little bit of time.
Is this normal? I just grabbed both at walmart and figured they would work fine.
The first box (both of them RCA DTA800B1) seemed flaky as is, it wouldn't output on the coax line and would restart prior to me buying the antenna. After I got the new antenna the channels were great for a bit and then the box started to freeze more and eventually refused to start without a power cycle and would quickly freeze when trying to acquire a signal. I chalked it up to a bad box and exchanged it for a new one.
The second one (plugged it in last night) was awesome, again all the channels were coming in clearly and did what I wanted it to do. However, this morning I'm noticing channels lagging/skipping pixels, and sometimes getting a black image. The signal strength meter in the menu still shows as high (~65%) and get a clear picture for a little bit of time.
Is this normal? I just grabbed both at walmart and figured they would work fine.
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