SMS wrote:
Yesterday I wired a relatives house for cable. The analog cable works
fine, but when I plug in the digital cable box supplied by the cable
company it doesn't work at all. Is there anything special about
splitters for digital cable? I use Dish network, and I've really been
out of the loop as far as cable TV stuff. This is not Comcast, but a
small municipal cable company.

IIRC any splitters on digital must be "2 way". Most cheap splitters
are one-way. IOW, the digital cable box needs to transmit info back to
the head-end. Older analog cable boxes did not.