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I particularly like the ability to plug in a modulated signal - this unit has two modulator ports. 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 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. I recommend this product highly.David Brown [.]. This product was no exception. It is small, easy to install and simple to use.
Waste of money for what I needed. Did not work as advertised for my cable modem. 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.
It worked great for a week or two and then would power off. I read someone else had a similar problem.
I emailed them about the problem and they suggested I call it in to technical support for a warranty replacement. Hopefully just a bad batch.
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.
The DA8200 has a five year warranty. I've had a lot of problems with digital breakup with WOW Cable and this appeared to help.
I'd recycle the power and get 24-48 hours and then it would power off again.
So I am concerned now that this amp is touchy and not up to powering the 8 outputs is has. 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. I will report back when I get the replacement unit. So the turn around will be over 2 weeks. I was feeding my comcast digital box and 3 PC tuner cards.
Next day.dead. Not have all the outputs used. It worked great for 3 weeks and then wouldn't power up any longer. What worries me is that the tech ask me to do some odd things to prove it was dead. boxer I noticed on the day before it died that a progam recorded on Win MCE was very noisy.
That takes 5-7 business days.
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. 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 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. I guess I was beyond helping. 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.
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