My new Plasma display has no speakers and no direct aerial connection....?

Question

How can I watch normal terristrial TV on it with sound!!?

What would be the cheapest solution?

Answer 1

No you cannot. Your plasma is a plasma monitor. It has neither an analog nor an HD tuner in it. To view broadcast television another box is required. For example a cable box for cable, satellite box for a dish or an over the air box. If the TV did not come with speakers (and I am guessing it did not) it will require the assistance of a stereo system to give you sound.

In response to cheapest fix..... Get Direct TV or Dish network or Cable. Packages start around $20 but can easily run closer to 50 with HD package enhancements. Sign up for any of them is generally free. Satellite companies require a 1 year commitment on programming in exchange for the free equipment/free install. Cable has no required commitment.

Then go down to your local Target/WalMart/Costco and buy Home Theater In A Box. These will come with an A/V receiver 5 speakers and a sub woofer and can be had starting from $199-$299.
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Answer 2

Cheapest solution ... find something you already have that has a tuner - probably a VCR ( the tape portion does not have to work as all you need is the tuner) or a cable box. Take the video output ( yellow RCA jack) and connect it up to the video in of your plasma display. For sound you will need anything that has line inputs (white and red RCA jacks). That could be a boom box or a small stereo unit. It does not have to be some home theater in a box unless you want surround sound. Hook the audio from your tuner ( VCR, cable box or whatever) into it. This will give you picture and sound for very little cost.

IF your plasma display uses BNC connectors instead of RCA jacks you will need to get RCA to BNC adapters. Any good electronics store will have them

Answer 3

As said above..your going to need some sort of cable box. You would want digital cable with hd capabilities since your have a nice monitor, but that's not always the cheapest way. A VCR and normal basic cable would do the trick.
As far as speakers...You can get some nice computer speakers 2.1, and connect them to your headphone input on the plasma. Cheap and you dont have to get the whole home entertainment system.

Answer 4

It's a video monitor, if it has no speakers or tuner. For the picture, you will need to get a set-top-box of some sort (anything that has a tuner inside and also has some sort of video output), like a VCR or a cable box, then use the video/s-video/component/HDMI video output (your choice) to connect to the monitors video input. For audio, you will need to take the left/right audio from that same box, and insert into a stereo of some sort...

Answer 5

Let the buyer beware....

Ok, you need to BUY either a VCR with a tuner, or a Terrestrial set top box -- one THAT outputs OPTICAL AUDIO or DIGITAL COAX audio....(that'll get you Dolby Surround!)

Then you need to buy an AUDIO AMP.....Dolby 5.1 is the minimum, anything else is icing on the cake....
And you'll need a Surround Sound speaker package.

Now, that will set up a system that you won't have to remove any COSTLY major components to upgrade.

The VCR is cheap, the Dolby 5.1 Amp is cheap, the speaker kit is reasonable.....

INVEST MORE in the speakers than anything else....THEN the amp.....

Answer 6

If the front room antenna is fed with a around cable that screws into the television, all you choose is a splitter, and a few greater desirable cable. (Walmart?) If this is the older 2 twine type, you may purely connect the greater desirable twine to the back of the television on the comparable ingredient as a results of fact the antenna, and run it to the different room.

Answer 7

well it has to have those inputs and out puts if not then it is a computer monitor