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Man I work with says he has cable in every room in the house but doesn’t have any cable boxes ? Is this possible , he says it was like this when he bought the house .
You can have cable wiring/outlets anywhere you care to put them - two to a room, if you like.
From there, cable technology can be implemented in different ways. You can have one cable box that feeds to other rooms and can be controlled with an RF (radio, rather than IR light beam) controller. Those typically can only tune one channel for all outlets.
Or you can have TVs that have cable decoding built in, either for unscrambled base channels or, by using a plug-in card, all channels. They don't need any separate box but do require a cable connection.
Most newer houses are fully wired for cable; my older house had at least three generations of cable/satellite wiring wrapped around it, all of which I tore out.
i have 1 box, the rest of my tv's use the comcast app via either a smart tv, roku and a firestick. i spoke to the guy recently and was told that if i drop the DVR, i could go box free.
You can have cable wiring/outlets anywhere you care to put them - two to a room, if you like.
From there, cable technology can be implemented in different ways. You can have one cable box that feeds to other rooms and can be controlled with an RF (radio, rather than IR light beam) controller. Those typically can only tune one channel for all outlets.
Or you can have TVs that have cable decoding built in, either for unscrambled base channels or, by using a plug-in card, all channels. They don't need any separate box but do require a cable connection.
Most newer houses are fully wired for cable; my older house had at least three generations of cable/satellite wiring wrapped around it, all of which I tore out.
Because most of it was nonfunctional (each new install from Comcast or Dish resulted in new runs, parallel to the old - "free" installation is worth every penny you pay for it).
And because it looked like the house was being eaten by black kudzu.
Both are common here; most the houses I looked at had similar thick bundles of cabling running everywhere on the exterior. It's not uncommon for three houses in a row to have two satellite dishes each, one of which is clearly nonfunctional. (Don't ask me to explain.)
And because I have absolutely no need for wired cable in every room of the house. I don't even have it in one room; the "cable" comes in a utility wall and feeds the modem there.
i have coaxial cable/cat5e network cable/phone lines in all my rooms, 2 in each for the most part. i got the cat5e working since i figure a lot of stuff plugs into the internet these days. didnt get the cable or phone lines working. i dont think that i would need those.
except for the input boxes, the cable is all behind the wall (and exposed in the basement). so i dont think id need to remove any of it.
I have TVs in every room in the house. I keep 3 set top boxes in a rack in my office. I have a 8x8 video matrix switch in the rack. The inputs to the switch: cable box 1/DVR, cable box 2, cable box 3, video surveillance/NVR (16 cameras), blue ray player, Windows PC. Outputs: each of 8 TVs in the house.
So, at any location in the house, you can watch any of the inputs.
Coaxial cable goes to the rack. Cat6 with BALUN goes to each TV.
Which never fails to boggle me. I can't imagine the need or even the want.
There's nothing rational about that expectation!
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