quick tv video question

[Boney]

were trying to watch a football game tomorrow night on our friends plasma tv and all the connections on the back of the tv are either like s-video ... composite ... dvi. Now the only plug we have is the coaxel cable cord comming from the wall.

What kind of converter and where could i buy it that would take the coaxel cable and let us plug it into the tv?

thanks

 

[Lord Evermore]

You'll need an external TV tuner box with the correct outputs. Many high-def TV's don't come with internal tuners, so they aren't "cable ready". You can't just plug in an adapter, it'll be a powered box, like a cable company's set top box.

How was he watching TV before? You can probably get one at Radio Shack, Best Buy, Circuit City, or at lots of places online but you haven't got that kind of time, though it might be cheaper to just lease the one the cable company provides as long as it has the right outputs.

Alternately, get a TV tuner card for a PC if it's near enough that the cable can reach it, and that the video and audio output cables can reach back to the TV without being terribly long, assuming the video card has video output which pretty much all of them do these days.

 

[corkyg]

A cable coming from the wall gets its signal from where? If it is commercial cable, then your cable provider will provide you a box. This only supplements the solid advice from the Lord. From your description, the 42-in plasma is a monitor on a complete TV. If it had a NTSC tuner, there would be a coax port.