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What items does a residential home need to connect ALL their TV's to one cable box?
These Digital Converter Boxes are using excess electricity and I prefer using one box connecting all TV's. The boxes are not EcoFriendly.
Some are requiring a box per TV. No one can answer this correctly unless you provide more detail.
As to Eco issues, I added this thing -> http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Conserve-Socket-Energy-Saving-Outlet/dp/B003P2UMQ2/
When the TV goes off, so does everything else!
First of all, remember that a digital converter box can only convert one program at the same time. So even if you have 3 TV's connected, you can't view more than one program on them, not 2 different ones.
And then it depends on what the digital signal is converted TO, like analog or hdmi or scart. Most likely you would need some splitter suitable for the cable and signal used. There's a chance, if the box has different outputs, you could use 2 or all of them in parallel. Then all you would need are the right cables.
Without details like this no definite answer can be given.
Kees
PS. A converter box only uses power when switched ON. None if totally switched off or disconnected from the power outlet. Not too much (depending on the particular model) if in sleep mode. So having 3 and only turning on one (if only one TV is turned on) is eco-friendly. But maybe not user-friendly, if it has a long boot and startup time or - even worse - loses it settings when turned off.
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