[NJARC] Connecting 1950 TV to digital sources

[Joe Giliberti]

Hi Alex
I would think all you would need is a balen to switch the screw terminals
to coax and an RF modulator to convert RCA inputs to coax. You could also
use a digital cable box or OTA digital receiver to directly couple to the
balen over coax, but you'd be getting a 16:9 format shrunk down on a tiny
 inch CRT. The RF modulator hooked up to a DVD player or PC is probably the
way to go.
RF modulators are cheap. Check Amazon.

Like this one here:
http://www.amazon.com/RCA-Compact-RF-Modulator-CRF907R/dp/B0014KKV7W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455661355&sr=8-1&keywords=RF+modulator

Regards and Good Luck
Joe Giliberti

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alex Magoun <a.b.magoun at ieee.org> wrote:

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