Roku with coax cable? My old TV uses coax cable, no HDMI. Better to buy new TV?

Roku 3 Composite

For older TVs you can use a Roku 1 or Roku 2. They have composite A/V cables to plug into your tv if you do not have an HDMI port(composite A/V cables are the red, yellow, white cords you plug into the audio and video jacks). My concern is that you said you have internet service through a telephone landline. Do you have dial up or DSL? Only broadband internet will work for a Roku so dial up will not work. If you have DSL(or cable) you are fine…well kinda fine.

Your next issue is that you are using hardwired internet. Only the Roku 3 has an ethernet port in it so you can plug the internet wire/line into it, however the Roku 3 only works with newer tvs with HDMI ports so that isn’t an option. Roku 1 and 2 will work with your TV but they need wifi to connect to the internet which means you need a wireless router if you don’t have one.

I recently bought a father a wireless router so he can use a Roku you don’t have to get an expensive one. I just got my father a $20 TP-LINK TL-WR841N router. So the router and a Roku 1 will run you about $70 total.

TP-LINK TL-WR841N

http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WR841N-Wireless-R...

Roku 1

http://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Player-Black-...

There are rokus that output composite video. With that, you can get a converter to convert that to coaxial.