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This might not belong here but I was wondering how and what you need to hook up about 5 tvs in one place ta play the samething or maybe some play same some something different.Can anyone help.

Patrick, first can you edit your profile to include a location? Just makes things easier to recommend based on geography, thanks -

Your question depends on the type of TV's, and how good a quality picture you want among other things - for medium to upper medium quality, the simplest way would be to take the antenna output of a VCR, feed it into an RF distribution amplifier such as Radio Shack sells, and feed each TV's antenna input with one of the outputs of the distribution amp. These cost about $40-50 and can have 4 outputs .

For higher quality, you might need a VIDEO distribution amplifier - these are a more pro item and would probably cost more - here's a few

http://www.studio1productions.com/distribution_amps.htm

Note that this, and the first solution, will NOT let you split things up; all tv's will see the same program, whether you go the RF route or the Composite video route. You would need more comprehensive routing in order to choose different programs for different monitors.

Maybe if you explain what you're trying to do, I could be more specific... Steve

You need a Modulator to distribute multiple sources to the tv's. Example: You have a DVD player, VCR, satellite receiver, etc. You want all the tv's to either be able to program to the same channel or you can have all 5 tv's have play a different source.

What the modulator does is take the signal and you program the modulator to come up on a particular tv channel (either RF or cable).