i pulled the cable tv hook up out of my tv can you help me please.
My understanding of what happened is that the Cable In jack on the tv broke. I'm trying to think of the cheapest way for you to solve this without special equiptment. This way is a bit annoying but it would work. If you have vcr many can recieve a cable signal. What you would do is run the cable cable to the Cable in on the vcr then run a composite cable (yellow, red, white) from the vcr to the tv. This way requires the tv to be on an av station or channel 3/4 (depending on the tv),the vcr must be on and the vcr remote would control the stations. Plus to this way is no need to increase cable services or rental fees just because the jack busted. Otherwise I would recommend considering a cable box or finding a way to fix/replace the tv. Depending on your cable company boxes can either be rented or bought. They are connected to the wall jack with a screw in cable cable. Then you have the option to use and hdmi, composite, or component cable (green, blue, red, red, white) to go between the box and the tv. Honestly a cable box is the best cable to hdmi hook up out there.
If it can't be fixed, what you're describing is an external tuner. For digital cable, the cable company should provide you with one (where I live, all digital cable signals except audio-only are scrambled and require a box from the cable company). For analog cable, you'd need a classic cable box (as long as it has a/v connections and not just f-connectors - since that's what you lost). They used to be called converters. Some people called their remote the converter. That was annoyingwhat was I talking about? Right, you can still buy external analog tuner boxes, I saw one on OKorder a while back. I'm pretty sure I saw one with hdmi too but that was a longer time ago. I doubt there'd be much advantage in converting analog cable to hdmi anyway. Composite - yellow rca - should be fine. A vcr or dvd recorder with an analog tuner would work too.
