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Coaxial cable input on tv is broke?
In my bed room i have an older tube style hd tv that the coaxial input broke off and there is no real way to repair it. I need a way to watch my basic cable through it as i dont have a cable box nor want to get one from the cable company and have to pay for the service that goes along with it. I remember in the 90's using a vcr as a tv tuner all the time and now it seems impossible to find one for a decent price online so that option is out.
My question is can i use one of those analog to digital converter boxes, i notice it takes a coaxial as an input could that read the signal coming from my cable and i use that to change my channels as i only have like 30 channels but this is my bedroom tv looking to spend as little as possible to save it
the tv has hdmi, composite, and other inputs, i use my dvd player on the tv and the picture is fine i'd hate to throw the thing out
5 Answers
- nas88car300Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
use that tv for gaming and dvds only
and get a new tv because it can be fixed but it would be costly
- ?Lv 68 years ago
Unless the TV has a scart socket you're out of luck. You can use a digital box, but it needs to input signal to the TV, and that's normally only a coax socket on older TV models.
Do NOT try a repair on the coax socket yourself as there is a capacitor in there that can store enough power to kill you even if the TV has not been plugged in for months!!!!
If it has HDMI then it's not that old and probably also has scart. Google scart to see what it looks like.
Good luck.
- 5 years ago
There are matters that may convert the cable connection to A/V indicators. They're most often called tuners; in authentic phrases, they're referred to as demodulators. Most normal VCRs have them, and you would use a VCR to behave as the tuner. However, what you should do is have the tv repaired in order that it is going to again possess the identical compliment of connections it used to be in the beginning supposed to have.
- classicsatLv 78 years ago
You need a cable box. It is only a few bucks over your cable subscription. Of course, you already have one, or else you wouldn't come here asking to help access cable TV you aren't paying for (AKA stealing it).
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