Author Topic: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it (Read 2365 times)

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.

How do I connect a DVD player to it?

T234 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:26:04 PM »

Don't buy old-ass TV sets.

Beardo · « **Reply #2 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:32:15 PM »

I didnt pay a cent for it!

GilloD · « **Reply #3 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:32:58 PM »

Quote from: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:32:15 PM

I didnt pay a cent for it!

Ask JOHN MCCAIN to come do it for you.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #4 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:33:02 PM »

Don't suck guys off for old-ass TV sets.

T234 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:35:30 PM »

Quote from: Beardo on September 24, 2008, 12:32:15 PM

I didnt pay a cent for it!

YOU JUST SAID YOU BOUGHT IT? WHAT DID YOU BUY IT WITH, ARATHI BASIN TOKENS

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #6 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:35:56 PM »

Beardo · « **Reply #7 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:37:32 PM »

I traded some DVDs for it. sorry I was trying to keep the original post concise.

T234 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:38:45 PM »

HOLY SHIT YOU GOT RIPPED OFF

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #9 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:41:58 PM »

is it an EDTV or just SDTV?

Beardo · « **Reply #10 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.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #11 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

Beardo · « **Reply #12 on:** September 24, 2008, 12:56:31 PM »

How do I connect a DVD player to it?

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #13 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!

patrickula · « **Reply #14 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.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #15 on:** September 24, 2008, 01:04:57 PM »

that's a good idea too, not sure what that does to an already argh signal.

Eric P · « **Reply #16 on:** September 24, 2008, 01:05:54 PM »

Quote from: 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.

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

but really your best bet is radio shack for an adapter

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #17 on:** September 24, 2008, 01:09:26 PM »

I could have sworn ive seen it done

Beardo · « **Reply #18 on:** September 24, 2008, 01:15:22 PM »

I have a DVD/VCR combo. How awesome is that!

Eric P · « **Reply #19 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

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #20 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.

Bocsius · « **Reply #21 on:** September 24, 2008, 02:02:51 PM »

Republicans always looking for handouts.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #22 on:** September 24, 2008, 03:07:05 PM »

FHUTCOAX

muckhole · « **Reply #23 on:** September 24, 2008, 03:37:00 PM »

Quote from: 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

Yup, know a girl that had the same setup until a year ago, and about 70% of DVD's wont play properly.

DJ_Tet · « **Reply #24 on:** September 24, 2008, 03:45:30 PM »

Quote from: 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

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

xnikki118x · « **Reply #25 on:** September 24, 2008, 04:03:11 PM »

Pay no mind to the haters, there is nothing wrong with old TVs that still work!

Bildi · « **Reply #26 on:** September 24, 2008, 08:49:21 PM »

Make it into a fish tank.

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Author Topic: I got a new TV! Need help connecting it (Read 2365 times)