Yeah, didn’t they usually not even allow for individual channel selection? I remember my grandparents having one for their basement TV. We had to watch whatever the adults were watching upstairs as kids.
before you needed a cable box, you could plug the coax cable directly from the wall to the TV, so starting the splitter from the wall outlet would work like I said
You’d need a separate cable box to watch something different in another room. All channels were sent down the same cable, and the set top box decoded the stream and tuned to the right channel.
I haven’t had cable in a decade, but I doubt that’s changed much.
Yeah, didn’t they usually not even allow for individual channel selection? I remember my grandparents having one for their basement TV. We had to watch whatever the adults were watching upstairs as kids.
before you needed a cable box, you could plug the coax cable directly from the wall to the TV, so starting the splitter from the wall outlet would work like I said
Sounds like they split the signal after the cable box. The original Duplicate Screen.
Well yeah, otherwise you would have needed another box and who had money for that?
I mean I think people are talking about old school basic cable where your TV was the tuner, no cable box needed unless you wanted a guide and DVR
You’d need a separate cable box to watch something different in another room. All channels were sent down the same cable, and the set top box decoded the stream and tuned to the right channel.
I haven’t had cable in a decade, but I doubt that’s changed much.
Wow, that sucks.
It sucked at the time for sure, but thinking about this now gives me only happy feelings. Very nostalgic for a simpler time.
I’m pretty sure it’s still that way it is today if you don’t have multiple set top boxes.