If you are a cable TV subscriber, the era of receiving cable without a box has effectively come to an end.
Cable TV is best enjoyed from every room of the house, and you do not need to have a cable box to connect your cable to another room.
Even without a cable box, you can still watch your cable from multiple TV sets in your house.
- Loosen and remove the head of the cable wire from the wall cable outlet.
- Connect the free end of the coaxial cable coming from the TV to one of the free threaded coaxial cable connectors on the two-side part of the cable splitter; then tighten the head.
- Connect an end of the long cable to the remaining threaded end of the cable splitter while making sure to tighten the head, then connect the other end of the long cable to the threaded coaxial port of the second TV and tighten the head.
- Turn the TVs on, you will be able to independently watch different channels from each TV. The splitter splits the same signal, but it is the TV that determines what channel is being viewed.
Does cable work without a box?
Since almost all content is now copy-protected and scrambled, to receive even basic cable signals from a service, you need an external box from a cable company
Do I need a box for every TV with cable?
Since almost all content is now copy-protected and scrambled, to receive even basic cable signals from a service, you need an external box from a cable company
What can I use instead of a cable box?
Use a streaming device: smart TV, game console, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast, or Apple TV. You won’t need that cable box anymore, but you will need some kind of streaming device to watch services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO Max.