Totally off topic TV question

[mikedt]

If you're using a browser just use the "UPLOAD A FILE" button, at bottom of where you're writing your post.

Like this...

I'm using a Macbook at the moment, it it's pretty much the same when using a phone or tablet's browser.

 

[Rgarner]

Ok, I'll give it a shot, or actually a bunch of them. By the way, I finally found which model it is, low on the back. It's really small. Maybe they were ashamed of it (or should be): VA26LHDTV10T. I included an upshot of the cable (s) in the closet. Should I post these full size or thumbnail? Why do some of them show ss documents instead of photos? They were all under documents, anyway.

 

[mikedt]

Will have a look tomorrow, going to bed now.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I would recommend a digital antenna but looking at those pictures... Are you sure you can really plug anythong into any of those slots? They kinda look like stickers.

 

[joe71]

We don't watch regular tv anymore we have a roku and pretty much watch Netflix or Amazon (I like the older movie section what it is Drive in cinema??) In Denver Colorado a few months ago I saw a tv with both the Uhf and vhf knobs. (Probably a bit before alot of you were born) I remember the parents wrapped the rabbit ears in tin foil then place a wire coat hanger in the window and ran a wire from it to the rabbit ears. I remember we got a pretty decent selection of channels

 

[Rgarner]

They look kinda crummy but they probably work. Where would the rabbit ears plug into it, assuming I could find any? Would I be better off just trying to watch tv on the phone? I suppose that costs extra. What would you recommend?

 

[Member2035261]

http://cdn.vizio.com/manuals/kb/legacy/va26lmanual.pdf

http://cdn.vizio.com/manuals/kb/legacy/va26lhdtv10tmanual.pdf

You seem to have a 2010 version of that, though the connections stickers look like the 2008 model. Both manuals are above and you can download them to your phone.

The Menu button is the third one down. You go up / down the menu with the channel buttons and left / right with the Vol, or whatever it says.
It may have a digital tuner going by the manual, I'm not sure, though it says you connect a digital set top box to either HDMI ports.
You would connect an aerial to the RF or DTV/TV socket, so if you have a look at that you may have an external aerial wired per your photo and it's disconnected.

Any ways, if nothing happens when you press the menu button, you may be dead in the water. If it does come on you can find if you need a cheap digital set top box, and an aerial to the box. Is there any small box anywhere with a power lead and the cable to the RF port/socket?
I don't know the US tv sytem, but I think the analogue system was the same as ours except we used a PAL tuner, and I think other countries used Secam. It will not be transmitting now so either you do have a digital tuner built in, or a seperate box is required if the menu system responds.

I may be off line for a few days, I don't know yet.

 

[Rgarner]

Thanks all you guys for all the help, and there is a small converter box that cost anout $50. It's from RCA via walmart probably. I should try that again maybe, but if I have it plugged in then there's nowhere for the DVD player. Do those things with multiple outlets work? How do I know that won't blow a fuse?

 

[Rgarner]

I think that U. S. tv uses NTSC, which apparently stands for National Television Standards Committee. I know someone who was disappointed to learn that it has nothing to do with actual content, such as violence or salaciousness...oh well...aspect ratio is probably more their speed. I wish they could take on dumbness ratio, or is that dumbth (thank you, Steve Allen). Anyway, because of the fantastic success of my last pictures, I decided to include some of the RCA converter box. I hope somebody really enjoys them. That last one is inside the closet to show the lower cable part.

 

[mikedt]

I think that U. S. tv uses NTSC, which apparently stands for National Television Standards Committee. I know someone who was disappointed to learn that it has nothing to do with actual content, such as violence or salaciousness...oh well...aspect ratio is probably more their speed. I wish they could take on dumbness ratio, or is that dumbth (thank you, Steve Allen). Anyway, because of the fantastic success of my last pictures, I decided to include some of the RCA converter box. I hope somebody really enjoys them. That last one is inside the closet to show the lower cable part.

From what I've read, analog NTSC broadcasting in the US was shut down in 2012. So if this TV is analog only, it will definitely need a suitable digital converter box connected to it. I believe digital TV in the US uses the ATSC(Advanced Television Systems Committee) standard.

 

[KBU2]

I got a 32" flat screen digital TV in a room I don't have cable in, I just pull out the old trusty rabbit ear antenna and screw it into the cable input in the rear of the TV and go to scan for channels and I can get up to 50 local channels.