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The one caveat about cable hookups these days is that a few of the systems out there are entirely digital. If that is the case, you won't see anything but "hypersnow" on an analog set, and no converter (other than one rented from the cable company) can fix it.
More common is what one very large CATV corporation is doing - offering only some of the programs available over-the-air (the ".1" channels) in analog.
If your cable system offers many channels in analog (you can test this by plugging the cable into a "BPC" set made from the late '80s to 2005).
For analog cable systems using the midband and superband channels, there is one really cheap solution for using an old "knob" set - a used VCR. Nearly all VCRs newer than about 1989 have a cable-ready tuner, simply leave the TV on channel 3 (or 4) and use the VCR tuner for changing channels. Now that so many people are using DVDs for movies and TiVos for timeshifting, VCR are abundant and selling for about $7 at thrift stores.
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10-02-2010, 08:14 PM
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