Receiver doing video switching.

jacal
jacal Posts: 15
edited November 2003 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
I searched for an answer but have come up empty handed.

I get my tv signal thru good old coax. It's just your basic regular tv from the local cable provider.

I'd really like to directly input this signal into my receiver, and thus be able to treat my television as just a monitor. Of course, my receiver like most new ones doesn't have a spot for antenna-in.

So if there is such a thing can a person get a coax-rca or coax-svid converter??

I guess I could use a vcr if I wanted to leave it turned on all the time.



Thanks.

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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited November 2003
    I don't think so. The problem is receivers don't have TV tuners built-in to them. Just converting the signal isn't good enough, you need something to change the channel (the tuner).

    Any TV made anytime in the recent past should have a built in tuner. You just have to live with switching inputs on the tv.

    Do you subscribe to cable? If so, get a cable box and that will have the composite video/s-video output you are looking for.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited November 2003
    there are external upconverters available. audio alchemy used to make a composite to s-vid model. see them on ebay every so often. aa is out of business, but someone still is in i'd bet...

    bigger question to me is, does your avr include a tv tuner? quite a different thing than switcjing capability....
    More later,
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited November 2003
    Simple,
    put a VCR inline.Run the composite and audio feeds to the receiver and use the tuner in the VCR to change channels.

    BAM job done.
    Dan
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