Hey all, what a great forum! Here's our situation:
We have a Toshiba 46' flat screen in our bedroom. We have cable TV but no cable box, just the coaxial cable from the wall. The TV has managed to decode enough channels to live with it until money gets free'd up to subscribe to more channels.
The Toshiba TV has absolutely NO outputs of any kind. I need to have some kind of audio output that would allow me to use headphones to keep the room quiet. That means we have to have some sort of receiver.
Soooo, we would like to find an AV receiver or another component that can take the intake of the coax cable, plus an HDMI input, a USB device input for ripped movies, and streaming services. The streaming services do not have to be built in to the receiver or component because we have laptops with HDMI-out capability.
Most (all?) Blu-Ray players won't take a coax-input, so a Blu-Ray can't be the component or hub. Frankly, we don't want or need 5-channel surround in the bedroom either. I'd love a compact receiver that can accept coax-in and just be used as a switching device, and sends the audio through the TV speakers, but it must also have either a 3.5mm headphone out-jack or RCA L/R out-jacks in order for my wireless headphones to work. (gasp! horrors! I know, I just dropped inestimably in the esteem of this forum ;-)
Does such a device exist?
