Home Theater Connector

[munruss]

A friend of mine gave me a Sony home theater 5.1 setup. It's about four years old, but sounds great. I would like to connect my cable TV to it. Since I don't have a cable box, I am in the search for a cable that excepts a coaxial cable conection on one end and has three RCA (video & audio) connections on the other end.

Any ideas where I can find this? I did some searching, no I've had no luck. Thanks...

 

[jtusa]

VCR

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: munruss
A friend of mine gave me a Sony home theater 5.1 setup. It's about four years old, but sounds great. I would like to connect my cable TV to it. Since I don't have a cable box, I am in the search for a cable that excepts a coaxial cable conection on one end and has three RCA (video & audio) connections on the other end.

Any ideas where I can find this? I did some searching, no I've had no luck. Thanks...

Most TV's have an RCA audio out munruss, if your does just use a regular RCA cable to connect your TV's audio out to one of the inputs on the Sony unit 🙂

 

[DaveJ]

Munruss: You need an RF modulator like one of these. That should allow you to hook up your Sony and watch DVDs through it on your TV.

Dave

[edit] This is assuming the Sony has standard RCA audio outputs. If it doesn't, you may be screwed. 🙂 What model Sony is it?

 

[nsafreak]

Originally posted by: DaveJ
Munruss: You need an RF modulator like one of these. That should allow you to hook up your Sony and watch DVDs through it on your TV.

Dave

[edit] This is assuming the Sony has standard RCA audio outputs. If it doesn't, you may be screwed. 🙂 What model Sony is it?

An RF modulator isn't going to work for what he wants to use it for DaveJ, a modulator takes a signal from a composite or S-video input and convers it to an RF output. He's trying to do the reverse. So what he wants to use is a VCR or the audio outs on his TV.

 

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by: nsafreak

Originally posted by: DaveJ
Munruss: You need an RF modulator like one of these. That should allow you to hook up your Sony and watch DVDs through it on your TV.

Dave

[edit] This is assuming the Sony has standard RCA audio outputs. If it doesn't, you may be screwed. 🙂 What model Sony is it?

An RF modulator isn't going to work for what he wants to use it for DaveJ, a modulator takes a signal from a composite or S-video input and convers it to an RF output. He's trying to do the reverse. So what he wants to use is a VCR or the audio outs on his TV.

Doh! Yeah, you're right, I missed the bit about connecting his CATV feed to it.

Dave

 

[Nohr]

I was in the same situation a few months ago. This cheap Sanyo VCR was my solution. It was the cheapest one with stereo sound. Keep in mind if you go this route you'll have to leave the TV on channel 3 or 4 and use the VCR to flip channels.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Nohr
I was in the same situation a few months ago. This cheap Sanyo VCR was my solution. It was the cheapest one with stereo sound. Keep in mind if you go this route you'll have to leave the TV on channel 3 or 4 and use the VCR to flip channels.

Err, no. Assuming the TV has video input, you don't need to use the cable 3/4 override function in the VCR, everything gets fed through Composite/Left/Right.

 

[cerebusPu]

you'll have to take audio out from the TV to the home theater box. look for connections on your TV instead.

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Nohr
I was in the same situation a few months ago. This cheap Sanyo VCR was my solution. It was the cheapest one with stereo sound. Keep in mind if you go this route you'll have to leave the TV on channel 3 or 4 and use the VCR to flip channels.

Err, no. Assuming the TV has video input, you don't need to use the cable 3/4 override function in the VCR, everything gets fed through Composite/Left/Right.

I guess I'm assuming his TV is like mine and only has a single input, coax. Else he wouldn't have been looking for some strange coax/composite adapter.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Nohr
I was in the same situation a few months ago. This cheap Sanyo VCR was my solution. It was the cheapest one with stereo sound. Keep in mind if you go this route you'll have to leave the TV on channel 3 or 4 and use the VCR to flip channels.

Err, no. Assuming the TV has video input, you don't need to use the cable 3/4 override function in the VCR, everything gets fed through Composite/Left/Right.

I guess I'm assuming his TV is like mine and only has a single input, coax. Else he wouldn't have been looking for some strange coax/composite adapter.

The original problem is outputing from the cable feed to the receiver, which usually involves a cable tuner, be it a cable box or a vcr.