Otherwise, the TV tuner is analog and you either need to buy a digital TV or a DTV converter box to get free TV with an antenna.
To answer this you need to know if the TV has a digital tuner (also called a digital receiver.) If it does, then you do not need a converter box for your TV. Prices range from $30 – $80 for a DTV converter box based on the quality of the brand. It translates the digital signals being picked up by the antenna into an analog signal that can be received by your TV tuner. You might have to jump the cables around to decipher which is which.A digital converter box is a device that connects to your existing analog TV and your antenna. That last item might be a little easier to work with, the yellow should be audio and the white and red may both be video if the TV connector touches both, and the shield is cut down enough to still get your ground wire wrapped.
The copper line connects to the tip and the screw of the coax makes the shield on the F connector. Yes inside the F connector is a small set of jaws that catch the center wire of a coax cable. Then insert the adaptor and touch the other end of the wire to the outside of the phono on TV. You want a thin wire to wrap the base of the shield up closest to the body on the adapter, then secure or isolate the shield with a cut down piece of scotch tape. You might try a thin strip of tape to isolate the shield a little from the inside of the port. The funky tv port may touch the shield and ring at the same time shorting out the video signal. However I do not know if the tip, ring, and shield will line up properly. It should, I think the red would be audio and the white would be video. Magideal 3.5mm Jack Plug TO 3 RCA Male Stereo Audio Phone Speaker Adapter I was contemplating picking up the following adapter instead of the splitter: The inside of the F-type connector can't just be hollow, I would think? I would assume the wire in the coaxial cable that you would be connecting to the connector has to be making contact with something inside the adapter for it to work, right? On the F-type connector, does the pin from the coaxial cable that would be connecting to the F-type adapter itself, does it stick far enough through the clear plastic gel inside the connector itself to actually make contact with something inside the F-type connector? I've never seen the inside of one of these F-type connectors to see what's exactly inside them. Even though it is designed to work with left and right audio, it should work just as well plugging in the yellow video plug and either the left (white) or right (red) plug into the other open slot, correct? In other words, it'll be able to transfer the video signal through without issue, right? I'm not versed well enough to know whether that is the case or not but I would assume it would work?ģ.5mm 1/8" Mono Male plug to F-Type F Female jack Adapter Connector: I found two similar ones as you linked to.ģ.5mm Stereo Audio Male Plug to 2 RCA Female Jack Headphones Y Splitter Adapter:Īs far as the Y Splitter above is concerned. I just wasn't sure if the length of the input pin on this type of adapter cord would be the same length as the input head would be for the original adapter being called for here? I would rather have an RCA type head like the original adapter was but if I don't have a choice in the matter, I'll take what I can get to resolve this. I see Alabalcho's suggestion to use a camera's video cord. Not sure if it is just a matter of the search terms I am using or if it's because this type of specialized adapter is no longer being manufactured? I'm hoping for the former but leaning more towards the latter.Īny of you happen to know of a reliable vendor who may happen to carry stock of something like this in their inventory? I doubt it but I thought no harm in asking. Coming across a lot of different adapters, just nothing like this one.
I've been trying to see if I can find one online without any luck so far. Probably due to the fact that there are not many devices that output monaural sound, I'm assuming.