Question Need some help with hooking up an old TV

[KompiuteriuKaubojus]

Hello,

I have a fully working old TV (https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/kauno_silelis_shilialis_405_d_4.html) and I wanted to make it useful again, so I looked up ways to make it accept HDMI. Found a bunch of videos of people connecting antenna RF Coax to RCA converter, then to RCA to HDMI converter. But using two converters doesn't look that smart to me. So I tried to google if that regular antenna port could be used directly with composite video, because if I understood correctly, regular analog antenna's used a Coax and it is the same thing with a different connection as Composite video (that yellow RCA thing) so is it true? or there is maybe even more elegant solution to this problem (In short I just want to connect a TV which only has an antenna in port to HDMI) Thanks!

 

[kanewolf]

Hello,

I have a fully working old TV (https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/kauno_silelis_shilialis_405_d_4.html) and I wanted to make it useful again, so I looked up ways to make it accept HDMI. Found a bunch of videos of people connecting antenna RF Coax to RCA converter, then to RCA to HDMI converter. But using two converters doesn't look that smart to me. So I tried to google if that regular antenna port could be used directly with composite video, because if I understood correctly, regular analog antenna's used a Coax and it is the same thing with a different connection as Composite video (that yellow RCA thing) so is it true? or there is maybe even more elegant solution to this problem (In short I just want to connect a TV which only has an antenna in port to HDMI) Thanks!

That "fully working" old TV is best used as a door stop. The image search I have done show it as a black-and-white picture tube. The tuner is incompatible with current broadcasts. It has no external inputs. Just put it in the electronics recycling and move on.

 

[TerryLaze]

If it has a normal antenna plug (rf plug) then you can use a converter like this one.
Look around for the best device to use, this is just the first one I found with minimal google.
Retro forums might be better sources of info for this type of things.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285022722240?hash=item425cad98c0:g:3eUAAOSwVrljYNe2

Also what are you going to show on this thing from HDMI????
Get a pong game or an atari 2600 and have lots of fun. (or "fun" depending on who you ask)

 

[TerryLaze]

regular analog antenna's used a Coax and it is the same thing with a different connection as Composite video (that yellow RCA thing) so is it true?

There are a old consoles that use coax on one side and RCA on the other but the signal for them is completely different, you need a modulator to translate the signal from one to the other.