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TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 1 month agoProbably! According to Wikipedia you get 3-5 hours off of 6 AA batteries. Not sure how that changes with the TV tuner but battery life wasn’t great.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The antenna doesn’t need power to receive the signal, unless it’s boosted, but something tells me that’s not the case here.
What might consume more power would be any kind of decoding that’s going on.