Re: Need help hooking up Apple IIe to TV

["Phil Abel" <phil_abel@removethisfornospam.prodigy.net>]

"Theresa Fiori" <portage@muskoka.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to do this? I have a modern TV with a coaxial input. The
> Apple IIe uses RCA for video (looks like it) and I have used an
> RCA-to-coaxial adapter piece, but it isn't working. What am I doing
> wrong?
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>

If you have any older video game consoles lying around (Nintendo, etc.)
those usually came boxed with an RF adaptor to allow you to plug the game
directly into the coax input of your TV.  Not 100% sure if they would be
compatible with an Apple, but trying this first may save you the purchase of
an RF modulator.

If you have a "modern TV" though, you should have a "Video IN" RCA plug on
it, like the others have mentioned.  Those are nearly universal now.  Just
change the input selector on your TV from "Cable/TV" to "Line" and it should
be ok.

I used to have an RF modulator that plugged directly into the motherboard of
the Apple IIe.  If I remember correctly, that allowed me to get both sound
and video out of the thing.  Of course if you are plugged into the
composite-out you will only get video.