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odelik@lemmy.today 2 months ago
HDMI/Composite to coax convertor if that TV was recent enough to be “cable ready”, otherwise you’ll then need a coax uhf/vhf/fm adapter in the chain.
IIRC, back in the day, there were even composite-to-vhf adapters, but I can’t seem to find any currently sold so either my memory is lying to me or they’re no longer produced.
IIRC, back in the day, there were even composite-to-vhf adapters
I had something like that for my Nintendo 64. My TV only had an antenna plug, no composite. In Australia, we used these connectors even on very old TVs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector whereas the USA seems to mostly use BNC these days.
Yeah, composite & RCA are synonymous with eachother. IIRC it’s the difference between the connector name & cable name similar to rj-4 connector l/port vs cat-# cables.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It has dials. The kind that make an audible thunk when you change the channel. You think there’s really a chance of it being cable-ready?!
odelik@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as qell since it was “cable ready”. Transitional era technology is fun like that.
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
Prongs? I had to look that up since I hadn’t heard of a VHF/UHF connection with prongs before. That doesn’t seem very friendly compared to just using a regular plug? In Australia we used these connectors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector
odelik@lemmy.today 2 months ago
These are the cables I was familiar with way back then.
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