Posted: 12/13/2009 7:54:36 PM EDT
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Here's the situation: The coaxial cable jack broke off a TV I have. I called around to see how much it would be to have repaired and everyone wanted between $50-$100. It's an older 32" TV that I was planning to stick in a spare room (there's a smaller one in there now) but I'm not going to spend that much to fix it.
Is there some kind of device that I can run a coaxial cable with the cable signal into that has the red/yellow/white AV jacks which I can then run into the TV? I was thinking a VCR but I don't know anyone that still has one so I can't check what kind of jacks it has. I tried searching the internet but I have no idea what it would be called. |
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if the jack that broke off is what you hook your cable up to, an RF inverter or other means of switching the type of connection wont work. the coax goes into a tuner thats mounted to the circut board inside the TV. thats what allows you to change channels. just changing how its hooked ot the TV wont work becuse theres no tuner to correctly interpet the cable signal. thats why all the shops want so much to fix it. the tuner itself is maybe 20-30$ from MCM or other places. that rest is labor to dissasemble the TV and de/re solder the part. if you have acess to a solder sucker and decent electrical ability you can fix it yourself for whatever the cost of the tuner is.
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Your coax connector is connected the the TV TUNER, your red, white, yellow jacks ar just a video/audio input (no way of tuning in the channels)
You are right you need a VCR (most have a TV TUNER built in to change channels for recording TV shows) or a stand alone TV tuner like the new HD converter boxes. Antenna coax to converter box -> converter box to TV using the composite outputs (red, white, yellow) set TV to the input that the converter box is plugged into (input 1, input 2, ect) If you have a satellite or cable box use the composite outputs to connect to your TV. An RF Modulator takes a composite signal (red, white, yellow) and broadcasts that input over a certin channel over a coax "output" so you could take for example a DVD players composite audio/video plug it into a RF mod and then connect it to a old tv with coax that does not have composite inputs and watch the video source on say channel 3 or 4. ETA: Silicon Wolverine beat me....... |