Hey /g/, so today I went into a thrift store and found this little

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Is it plugged in?

>>59796924
There are no analog TV broadcasts in the US anymore. It's useless.

>>59796990
What about europe?
>>59796963
With what adapter? They didn't give me one, because they were greedy jews.

>>59796924
You can connect old consoles (and some old GPUs) through the antenna or AV in (if it has one)

>>59797101
It does! How do I do that?

>>59797171
You get/make a cable and plug it into the console and TV

Note that the TV should probably display static or a glow when you turn the brighness up and turn it on

>>59797205
Does the plug that goes into the console need to be something specific?

And do you know where I can find a power adapter?

>>59797233
PSU should be 6V, not sure about polarity
the antenna and AV cables have to be headphone style plugs at one end and normal AV at the other , you can make such a cable yourself

>>59797274
I can't just buy em?

>>59797023
To get broadcast television you'll just need a digital converter box. The government gave a shitload of them away like 10 years ago but now you can still get them for $20

>>59797664
Thanks mate, I'll see what I can do.

You can test out old portable tvs that only have an antenna by stripping a coax wire and plugging it into a digital converter box to create a shitty broadcast antenna.

>>59796924
>Blew a tenner on redundent 50p carboot tack

>>59799312
cor blimey guv, e's gone and bought imself a miniature telly! what a nonce

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>>59799337
If he got a 50p CRT mini telly fair enough but theres no novelty to it so what's the point.
Its just a bulky low res crappy phone screen

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>>59799373
(OP) could replace the guts with an OLED/TFT and enjoy the A E S T H E T I C S.

>>59796924
Wow, it looks like casio watches, but bigger

>>59797023
No analog TV broadcasts in Europe anymore either.

It's not just an adapter you need, it's a converter (digital-to-analog) i.e. an active device not just a passive one

>>59801025
Move to Russia, we have all the analog broadcasts you could ever want.

Hell, it's AD 2017 and my landline still doesn't support tone dialing.

>>59800100
It's already an LCD, I bet it#s similar to a game gear one

>>59802189
>Hell, it's AD 2017 and my landline still doesn't support tone dialing.
Literally how, most landline phones in ex-soviet countries were built after 1990

>>59802259
>most landline phones in ex-soviet countries were built after 1990

Uh, no, they weren't. Big cities had a shitload of land lines since the 70s.

The problem is that they kind of gave up upgrading old crossbar exchanges to digital ones after everyone got cellphones.

>>59802380
Interesting, in Hungary almost nobody had one apart from some people in the capital
Upgrades are no problem here, the infrastructure was recently replaced by fiber shit

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Is there a regular composite av jack on the back? If not, you'll need a converter. If you still have a vcr lying around, you could probably use it to convert a composite signal to rf. If not you could always just by a composite to rf adapter on ebay or amazon for like 10 bucks. First you should probably try to get a power adapter since it could be broken.

>>59796924

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMiMz1uGCXI

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>>59796990
>get an amateur radio license
>broadcast your own stations
It's not useless, you just don't know how to use it. I'm getting a GBA TV tuner and a Watchman for this.

>>59802259
Nope, mostly in the 70's.

>>59802189
Thank God we got rid of you then, digital television and tone dialing, comfy.

If you want to make that sucker work, grab up a Blonder Tongue agile modulator, like the AM60-550B model. Hook it up to an antenna, send NTSC source video and audio through it, and away you go. I have a few for my analog televisions.

>>59796924
>>59796990
as long as it has an antenna jack you can just wire it to a digital converter box like the ones they were giving out before the switch a few years ago, not a big deal

did it to a 1956 Zenith set in my family's antique shop and had some fun with it for a while that way, doing the same with the 1957 set in my bedroom

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>>59796990
>>59806147
You can also open it up, figure out where the demodulator output is then solder in a composite wire. Here's a portable TV that only had an antenna input where I did that.

>>59806216
that's pretty neat
always wanted to try >>59805869 as well