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All inputs but ATSC tuner (coaxial) are dead on my plasma. How can I feed other signals through this input?

Daboa

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Feb 17, 2013
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This 50" Panasonic from 2007 has lost all input functionality except the coaxial tuner input. Company says the board for the other inputs is dead and I don't want to spend the money to fix it.

What are my options? I'd like to be able to take a digital signal (VGA, DVI, HDMI, etc.) and convert them to coaxial so that the TV can display them through the tuner.

Yahoo Answers said I would be limited to an RF modulator with 480i output, but this tuner receives 720p HD signal from, so I don't think the 480i limitation is true.

What kind of device might I be looking for?
 
You mean the cost of converting digital HD to the proper HD signal for the receiver would cost more than a TV? Yikes. Wasn't hoping to hear that.