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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djsaskdja@reddthat.com 10 hours agoYeah, 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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markz@suppo.fi 10 hours ago
Wow, that sucks.
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.
warbond@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Sounds like they split the signal after the cable box. The original Duplicate Screen.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Well yeah, otherwise you would have needed another box and who had money for that?
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