Atari connection help

[Shadowmonic]

hey i have an old Atari and it has one cord kinda like the red yellow and white ones you plug into your television except its one and the audio and video both travel on one cord and i want to convert it from the one where they share the video and audio into all three..

 

[WaynePflughaupt]

Can you try again? That didn't make much sense...

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[GlocksRock]

Can you post a pic of the connector you are using?

 

[bandphan]

You need a rca female/f male connector

 

[highfigh]

hey i have an old Atari and it has one cord kinda like the red yellow and white ones you plug into your television except its one and the audio and video both travel on one cord and i want to convert it from the one where they share the video and audio into all three..

Does the Atari cable have RCA plugs on one end or does the cable have three rings and four metal parts on both ends? If it's four metal parts with three rings, that's an easy one- get an A/V cable for a digital camera and you'll have one yellow RCA plug for composite video with a separate Red and White plug for the audio.

 

[Shadowmonic]

one RCA into three

i think its called RCA and its just one RCA cord not three and i want to convert it to three one into three

 

[Rickster71]

Banphan gave you the answer in post #4

It may look like a video out cable, but if you plug it into the video (yellow) port of a TV or VCR it won't work. The Atari output cable is an RF cable designed to play on US TV channel 3 or 4. There are several options available at Radio Shack to hook it up properly. Female Phono Jack to Male F-Connector will plug onto the end of your video game's RF cord and allow it to connect directly to the back of a TV via the 75ohm cable connector

 

[JohnA]

In order to do what you want it to do you need a "demodulator" to separate the Video and audio signal, a real "demodulator" is not cheap, but if you have a VCR lying around you can use that. Use the adapter posted in #4 that converts from an RCA to F and then into the "ant input" on the VCR, then take the RCA outs from the VCR.

 

[BMXTRIX]

I would hope people would have remembered their history better. The Atari modulated video onto channel 3/4 for the TV.

To hook it up to a TV you basically just need any cable ready TV then connect the Atari directly to the F-connector input on the TV and tune your TV to channel 3 or 4. If your TV doesn't have a cable input then the poster above me (JohnA) is spot on about you needing a demodulator which can tune the Atari for you and output industry standard composite video.

An old VCR with a tuner does a great job and is REALLY the way to go. Just tune your VCR to channel 3 and you can connect the red/white/yellow outputs to your TV or A/V receiver.

Demodulators are available, but are typically more expensive than an old VCR would be.

Most current TVs still have a cable connection on the back which would be compatible with the Atari as well.

Projectors would not typically have this type of connection.

 

[Rickster71]

In order to do what you want it to do you need a "demodulator" to separate the Video and audio signal, a real "demodulator" is not cheap, but if you have a VCR lying around you can use that. Use the adapter posted in #4 that converts from an RCA to F and then into the "ant input" on the VCR, then take the RCA outs from the VCR.

That's right, a VCR is a way to do it.
There are two threads on this; (don't know why the OP started two) that's the advice I gave him in that thread.

 

[Shadowmonic]

sorry about the multiple threads my bad

 

[Shadowmonic]

ok I discovered a sollution
this is what im gonna do

im gonna use these two

will this work?? i want the RCA hook ups on the (RCA CRF907) RF Modulator
to be output instead of input so i can connect RCA wires to the television or receiver on the RF Modulator