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On 28-Jun-98 11:28:06, Cheng_Lee@hotmail.com <cheng_lee@no.spam.hotmail.com> said about Trivia question:

> For all you guys that think you are A/V experts, here's a question for
> you.

> I recently found in the attic an old National TC-431HR television that
> hasn't been used for years.  It is maybe 12-15 years old.  I got the
> idea to set it up in my kid's room, so that he can play his Sony
> Playstion without hogging the living room set.  The only problem is, the
> video input jack is one I've never seen!

> What I can tell you is that it is neither a composite "yellow" jack, or
> an RF in, or a cable jack.  Strangely enough, the audio input is a
> composite white.  The video jack looks a bit like a RF in, but the metal
> circle is smaller and the inside has a small white looking piece of
> plastic.  Anybody knows what this is?

> I know, you can suggest that I buy a VCR and then hook up the Playstion
> to that, and then hook the VCR to the TV with the RF out.  I've done
> that, but the TV doesn't pick up the VCR signal very well and it's very
> snowy.  So the weird video jack is my last and only option.

> Any ideas?

> Cheng Lee


It sounds like you may have a BNC (video) connector on the set, in which
case I would say you have a video monitor rather than a tv set (or it could
be both)

You can get these from places like Radio Shack/Tandy together with adaptors 
for conversion, eg. to phono, if necessary.

Maurice


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