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Yeah, didn’t they usually not even allow for individual channel selection? I remember my grandparents having on for their basement TV. We had to watch whatever the adults were watching upstairs as kids.

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warbond@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sounds like they split the signal after the cable box. The original Duplicate Screen.

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- BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well yeah, otherwise you would have needed another box and who had money for that?
  
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  - bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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
    
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ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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

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markz@suppo.fi ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Wow, that sucks.

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- djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It sucked at the time for sure, but thinking about this now gives me only happy feelings. Very nostalgic for a simpler time.
  
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