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    Asterisk this! austN Spur's Avatar
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    i had an old tv and the greatest aunt in the world gave me a 50 inch flat screen. i was so excited i didnt even bother to look at the inputs and my problem is: its a monitor television. I had a cable from the wall to my old cable ready tv with no cable box. how do i get my cable wire converted into the tv. It has hdmi inputs and audio/video. I'm looking for something i can buy at walmart or bestbuy and i cant find anything or maybe its right in front of me and i don't see it. Please help I dont want to miss maybe the last game of the year tomorrow night

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    You have cable TV, and your new TV doesn't have a coaxial input?

    That's almost impossible to believe. It should look the exact same as the cable connection that your old TV had.

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    Asterisk this! austN Spur's Avatar
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    nope it doesnt. damm i'm screwed. just got an idea. maybe i can run the cable through a vcr if it has audio/video outputs

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    Asterisk this! austN Spur's Avatar
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    the vcr worked. i was scared for a sec. damm i feel like a dummy

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    You have cable TV, and your new TV doesn't have a coaxial input?

    That's almost impossible to believe. It should look the exact same as the cable connection that your old TV had.
    no its not impossible the tv has no tuner, older flat screen have a chance to have no built in tuner, a couple years ago it was expensive to install a tv tuner in a tv and cheaper tv used external tuners

    the dude now is using the tuner built into his vcr, a starnard def tuner that cant pick up unencrypted hd streams

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    🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 ElNono's Avatar
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    VCR will work. Some cheap DTV converter boxes also include an analog tuner for analog-pass through.

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    There goes having a flat screen if your going to run analog imo... bigger screen yeah but inferior picture

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