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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Another question about watching TV on a monitor
Summary: Don't connect F-plug to composit input
Keywords: RF to compsite = tuner
Message-ID: <969@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 06:22:12 GMT
References: <6946@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <6946@cps3xx.UUCP> hensley@frith.egr.msu.edu (John Hensley) writes:
>I've tried splitting the signal from my cable TV tuner so that I can get a 
>picture on my 1084D, but for some reason all I get is a blank screen.
>I've tried two F-plug to RCA adapters. The splitter works OK because the
>TV runs fine from either output, from either cable.

The cable TV converter is not a tuner.  You need a tuner, such as your VCR.

from cable             channel    VCR   composite   1084
company  +-----------+  3 or 4 +-------+  video  +---------+
==>==>==>| converter |==>==>==>| tuner |-->-->-->| monitor |
         +-----------+         +-------+         +---------+

The input to the cable converter is channels 2 thru 6, A thru W, and 7 thru
13.  Its output is an RF (radio frequency) signal on either channel 3 or
channel 4.  You have to have a tuner to convert this RF to a composite video
signal.  (The Sony KV1311 monitor has a built in tuner, the Commodore
monitors don't.)  So, unless you go out and buy a seperate tuner (such as
from Radio Shack), you'll need to have your VCR in the circuit to watch
TV on your 1084.

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