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.
I still have free cable this way in my house. I like it because I can have it on for background noise without picking what to watch. Way nicer TVs though.
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.
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
Pretty sure splitters were allowed as long as they didn’t split into another home
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.
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
I still have free cable this way in my house. I like it because I can have it on for background noise without picking what to watch. Way nicer TVs though.
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.
No cable boxes here. I have 3 coax drops in my house and they give me 60+ channels for free.
I guess some TVs have tuners in them now.
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.
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
Not where I was.