ROKU express conversion to Coax Type F
I just bought a refurbished Octane recumbent elliptical with a TV built in. It has both a direct HDMI input, as well as a Coax input. The TV takes NTSC and ATSC input as well as a bunch of o...
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NTSC is an 80-year-old analog video standard roughly equivalent to 480i. (Which in turn might correspond to about 360p.) So that’s where your video quality went.
So I found an HDMI input on the Octane Elliptical screen, buried in it’s guts. The manual says it is unused.
I went HDMI to HDMI from a ROku express, and got the same lousy resolution.
However, I added this baby to the output of the ROKU:
…and then from this splitter (using only one of it’s 2 output ports) into the Octane. Video now crisp, looks like 1080p. Clearly something about the copy protection scheme that this little splitter fixed. All legal (no recording going on, just viewing on a non-standard device.
HOpe this helps someone else.
R
ah....got it.
The octane screen will take ATSC as well, but the only HDMI to ATSC converter i could find was $300+, approaching the value of the machine.
Any suggestions how to port HDMI to ATSC at a reasonable price point?
R
