Hi there, I was wondering if digital cable TV suffers from the same signal degradation problem that analog cable does when it is split multiple times througout one's house? Theoretically, the cable box just has to detect a one or a zero, and even a very week signal will be able to communicate these bits fairly successfully. I just don't know if digital cable is truely digital in the way a CD or a computer disk is digital. For all I know, cable companies could use the term just to sound impressive and back it up by putting some digital switch on the line somewhere. So, I guess the true question in all this is: if I have a digital cable subscription and converter boxes for each TV in the house, do I have to worry about signal amplifiers or how many times I split the cable? Thanks!

Hi folks, I'm about to wire up every room in my house with ethernet, phone, and CATV, so you'll be hearing a lot from me over the next few days. This is just one of several questions I have. Actually, I'd first like to ask if there's a website that addresses doing all this? Maybe someone's written it all out so that you don't have to laboriously respond to each of my questions! Anyway, I was wondering if it's a good idea to leave in place some of the rope I'm going to pull the cable bundle with. I don't know what kind of cables will be evolving in the next few years, and maybe I'll want to run some eventually. Is this a common practice? If not, does it sould like a good idea? Thanks!