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Old 19-03-2010, 18:58   #12
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Re: Mysterious socket - help please!

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Originally Posted by exile View Post
Hi LondonRoad. Good to know, thank you. A bit of research this morning has led me into the weird and wonderful world of Rediffusion - did you know there was a Remembrance club that meets up every year?!

Out of interest, do you happen to know why I have two sockets? Is the second simply a duplication socket allowing two TVs to view the same signal?
Yes, you can get lost in the intertubes for hours at a time without even realising it.

At a guess, I'd say the socket has been split to allow a TV and a radio both to be run from the same feed, but I don't really know, as I have no direct experience of how the Rediffusion service worked.
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