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TV/cable help
Davedeldot
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I'm not an expert on televisions, so please excuse any poor choice of terminology :P
We have a 32" RCA television that's about 7 years old. It's connected by a simple coax cable for our Comcast basic cable subscription. We don't use a cable box or anything like that.
About a year ago, we started having problems watching cable. Our DVD player and Gamecube worked fine on the Video1 and Video2 inputs (both component? r/y/g connections... I always get composite and component confused), but all our cable channels would occasionally go to wavy black/white lines. Sometimes we'd still get audio with the wavy lines. A little while later everything would be fine. We had a repairman come out and he told us it was a TV prone to such problems on the circuit board. He replaced something related to the cable connector and/or tuner and we've been problem free until yesterday, except the picture hasn't come back at all.
Cost-wise I'm not sure about having it repaired again, nor is getting a new TV a good option at this point. I was wondering if there's some sort of cable TV tuner that would convert the coax connection into something I could plug into our component? port. I've done some keyword searching but I'm not really sure if I've found what would work.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
We have a 32" RCA television that's about 7 years old. It's connected by a simple coax cable for our Comcast basic cable subscription. We don't use a cable box or anything like that.
About a year ago, we started having problems watching cable. Our DVD player and Gamecube worked fine on the Video1 and Video2 inputs (both component? r/y/g connections... I always get composite and component confused), but all our cable channels would occasionally go to wavy black/white lines. Sometimes we'd still get audio with the wavy lines. A little while later everything would be fine. We had a repairman come out and he told us it was a TV prone to such problems on the circuit board. He replaced something related to the cable connector and/or tuner and we've been problem free until yesterday, except the picture hasn't come back at all.
Cost-wise I'm not sure about having it repaired again, nor is getting a new TV a good option at this point. I was wondering if there's some sort of cable TV tuner that would convert the coax connection into something I could plug into our component? port. I've done some keyword searching but I'm not really sure if I've found what would work.
Thanks in advance for any replies!
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Or check this
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/5/4757.html
It sounds like your tuner is going.