The Ideal 85-138 is a digital TV splitter. This high performance splitter has a bandwidth of 5MHz - 1 GHz with an Impedance of 75 OHMs. This piece can split a signal up to 8 different outlets with a low insertion loss. It does need terminators (Ideal 85-038) to keep all unused port for optimal performance. It is finished with a nickel plating. In 1916, J. Walter Becker started the Ideal Commutate Dresser Company of Chicago from his mother's kitchen. He manufactured commutate dresser stones with the belief that every product should be worth more than the price paid for it. Service, he said, was part of the product. That idea has been the core IDEAL business principle for over 90 years. Today, the many loyal distributors and customers that make IDEAL successful are a testament to Becker's original philosophy.