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Title: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:24:20 PM
I recently traded for an awesome 26 inch TV that only has a coax connection in the back. :lol 

How do I connect a DVD player to it?
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: T234 on September 24, 2008, 12:26:04 PM
Don't buy old-ass TV sets.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:32:15 PM
I didnt pay a cent for it!
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: GilloD on September 24, 2008, 12:32:58 PM
I didnt pay a cent for it!

Ask JOHN MCCAIN to come do it for you.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on September 24, 2008, 12:33:02 PM
Don't suck guys off for old-ass TV sets.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: T234 on September 24, 2008, 12:35:30 PM
I didnt pay a cent for it!
YOU JUST SAID YOU BOUGHT IT? WHAT DID YOU BUY IT WITH, ARATHI BASIN TOKENS
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 24, 2008, 12:35:56 PM
lol
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:37:32 PM
I traded some DVDs for it. sorry I was trying to keep the original post concise.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: T234 on September 24, 2008, 12:38:45 PM
HOLY SHIT YOU GOT RIPPED OFF
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 24, 2008, 12:41:58 PM
is it an EDTV or just SDTV?
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:42:58 PM
Quote
HOLY SHIT YOU GOT RIPPED OFF

Nah it came with a remote control.

Im pretty sure its just an SDTV.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 24, 2008, 12:53:37 PM
oh well, free tv is a free tv. I had an Orion SDTV that had such a nice picture for its time. ORION lawlz
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:56:31 PM
How do I connect a DVD player to it?
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 24, 2008, 12:59:27 PM
I thought there were RF Units for that kind of thing. Best bet is to hit Radioshack. Ill tell you now that the visual quality will be pretty horrible, you'll have reds bleeding all over the place and the blurrrr!
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: patrickula on September 24, 2008, 01:01:16 PM
One easy way to hook stuff up to old TV's is to rout the signal through a VCR with composite inputs if you have one lying around.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 24, 2008, 01:04:57 PM
that's a good idea too, not sure what that does to an already argh signal.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Eric P on September 24, 2008, 01:05:54 PM
One easy way to hook stuff up to old TV's is to rout the signal through a VCR with composite inputs if you have one lying around.

dvd has built in protection.  the signal won't function through a vcr

but really your best bet is radio shack for an adapter
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: MrAngryFace on September 24, 2008, 01:09:26 PM
I could have sworn ive seen it done
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 01:15:22 PM
I have a DVD/VCR combo. How awesome is that!
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Eric P on September 24, 2008, 01:15:28 PM
it can be done, but the video is scrambled

at least that's how it was like a decade ago when i bought my first player
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Kestastrophe on September 24, 2008, 01:50:07 PM
RF modulator is what you need, otherwise do what others have suggested and try to connect to your vcr first and then co-axial out to your shitty set.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Bocsius on September 24, 2008, 02:02:51 PM
Republicans always looking for handouts. ::)
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Brehvolution on September 24, 2008, 03:07:05 PM
FHUTCOAX
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: muckhole on September 24, 2008, 03:37:00 PM
it can be done, but the video is scrambled

at least that's how it was like a decade ago when i bought my first player

Yup, know a girl that had the same setup until a year ago, and about 70% of DVD's wont play properly.
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: DJ_Tet on September 24, 2008, 03:45:30 PM
it can be done, but the video is scrambled

at least that's how it was like a decade ago when i bought my first player

More like, it can be done, but only on an old-ass VCR.  The first units you could hook together and copy a tape from blockbuster straight to another machine had no built-in copy protection.

Any newer (mid-late 80's) VCR will scramble the picture however.  There probably is an RCA - coax cable adapter, look on monoprice
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: xnikki118x on September 24, 2008, 04:03:11 PM
Pay no mind to the haters, there is nothing wrong with old TVs that still work!
Title: Re: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it
Post by: Bildi on September 24, 2008, 08:49:21 PM
Make it into a fish tank.