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My 20 year old analog bit the dust and I replaced it with an HDTV. I don't have a cable box and don't want one but have coax input to the TV. I'd like to use a DVP (Disc Player) along with it. I want the coax to go into the DVP, then connected with an HDMI cable to the TV. That way I get better quality (in my attestation).

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In the past I have connected the coax to a VCR and then to a TV. Is there a DVP with a coax input with HDMI output to the TV? Google gets only garbage. GOOGLE - Garbage Only, Only Gibberish - Look Eternally.

db5 wrote:My 20 year old analog bit the dust and I replaced it with an HDTV. I don't have a cable box and don't want one but have coax input to the TV. I'd like to use a DVP (Disc Player) along with it. I want the coax to go into the DVP, then connected with an HDMI cable to the TV. That way I get better quality (in my attestation).

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In the past I have connected the coax to a VCR and then to a TV. Is there a DVP with a coax input with HDMI output to the TV? Google gets only garbage. GOOGLE - Garbage Only, Only Gibberish - Look Eternally.

Why do you want to add a thing between the coax(cable?) and the tv? It is not going to improve things and more likely does the opposite. I understand using hdmi to connect the player, but not the coax.

Now if it were a recorder, then a coax connection might make sense if you want to record one thing while watching another. That would likely require a splitter.

I can only say what I have and most of it is recent. The TV in my case is to an antenna for over the air programs which is pretty much the same thing as your cable setup except for the turner settings on the TV.

I have a Blu-ray player that connects to the TV using a HDMI cable. That is the only connection you need. (It has optical output too if you want to use your sound system.)

Both the TV and the player are "smart" and wireless so I can use the internet for content or use my PC for content or use my wireless router for content (NAS drive attached to router).

The Blu-ray plays dvd's and various other media and it has a slot for SD cards, and a usb port for more content off a usb stick. The only thing I haven't be able to try is Miracast (phone/tablet direct to the box) because I don't have a phone of tablet to try.

The one thing I'm missing is some way of recording next to the TV. The best I can do is use my PC to do that then use the wireless to watch at a later time. Some sort of hard disk recorder near the TV would be great, but I don't know when I can afford that.

Ed