Re: Any chance this has a fuse which has failed.

On 11/24/2024 11:29 AM, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:58:11 -0500, Clare Snyder
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Finally got it out and in another room saw that indeed thhe panel light
went on, though dimly.  And it appeared to play, and the foot meter
advanced when it did.  And the DVD drawer opened and shut with the
remote. Ugh, I hope I didn't drag it out of the shelf for nothing.
Connected a TV, and no picture.  Ah, but that's becauze I connected it
to Signal In, not Out.  Still no picture. Ah, that's because no antenna
Pound a twist tie about a foot long, stipped off a half inch to the wire
underneath, still no picture.  So it's broken, just like I thought.
 
Except now, I wonder. a 12 inch wire would have been plenty for analog
tv.  Is digital on a lower frequency, longer wave length that would not
work?   Or must signal strenghth be higher?

Micky, as I recall, that device had an old NTSC (analog TV signal) tuner
in it.  You many need to find an old digital to analog converter box and
put that between the antenna and the antenna input of the Phillips
device. I'm not surprised that you couldn't tune in an TV station on a
TV tuner that only receives analog TV signals.  You must not have used
that DVDR since before the implementation of digital TV broadcasting.