Fortunately most states have no radio broadcast TV. HOWEVER fun fact, in the Philipines due to the island hopping nature of that region they pretty much ONLY use radio broadcast TV since wires are a non option and satelite coverage is expensive.
@@surfthestreets86 no im canadian and I have a old antenna portable TV and I can only get one channel on it, used to be 2 like 10 years ago but now there is only 1
The Game Gear is 30 years old, why would they even bother? Also, the Game Gear doesn't have Wi-Fi capabilities, nor do I think the hardware could even handle an internet connection, so the thought of it running digital TV.. not even really possible.
I was going to be shocked if it worked but then halfway through your first try I remembered that they made people buy digital antennas for their TVs a little over a decade ago.
Bonus if using an analog video broadcasting box to broadcast the video on a channel Though the FCC might want to have a word if the signal is too strong
I think this was pretty obvious to anyone familiar with OTA broadcast tv. In 2009 the transition to DTV pretty much forced all high power stations to switch from analog signal to digital signal. There are a very very few low power analog stations still broadcasting but its rare and unlikely that you will pick any channels up. Oddly enough they still make those small TVs that had built in radio and OTA tuners, sadly they are kinda useless too other than the radio.
@@djonenonly8381 there are adapters that can go from the F-type coaxial to a 3.5mm male plug. If you plug one of those in, you can connect a Digital TV Converter box or a VCR through the RF output and tune to the channel that device is outputting. Hope this helps!
You can with something like the satellite dish or smart tv but that’s good if you don’t have a TV at all if you want to use even a be very good quality of roku but have it from hdmi to av adapter.
they shut down the very last channel a couple years ago but its been many many years since you could actually watch tv on non digital ears, im waiting for a digital mod for this
FUN FACT - Believe it or not? There are SOME UHF channels within the United States, where it will work. CAVEAT: They are PIRATE TV STATIONS. There are two nearby where I live. I always wondered WHY anyone would make PIRATE UHF stations, but it's basically like public access TV in the 80s/90s. Fun times.
Analog tv signals were phased out so unfortunately it’s just a working static brick, but if you go to a lesser country with analog signals it would work.
With the switch to Digital broadcasting a few years back, no this won't work anymore. That said, if you take one of those "new tuner for an old TV" boxes and figure out how to get the tuner to reach the gamegear's antenna, and channel 3-4 tuned, you'd be able to use the Digital tuner with the game gear. Horribly impractical, but functional. I've modified an old ghettoblaster radio with a 5" B&W TV to use a digital tuner for the TV part, and made a Li-ion battery pack to replace the 12!!! D-cell batteries this unit used from the factory. I take it camping with me, lasts a good 4-5 hours before I need to charge the battery or switch to radio only.
There’s a video somewhere on RU-vid of a guy recording his Game Gear TV with a handheld camera the moment the old broadcast TV signal was shut off. It’s cool, he channel surfs for a few minutes just to document what actually watching the SGGTV was like, then says goodbye to a piece of hardware that will forever be defunct.
You can with something like the satellite dish or smart tv but that’s good if you don’t have a TV at all if you want to use even a be very good quality of roku but have it from hdmi to av adapter.
If you make an analog tv transmitter which is really easy to do with off the shelf parts you can buy 2nd hand (An RF modulator or VCR with options for rf out channel 3/4, a basic bunny ear antenna, and an antenna amplifier (Range depends on the type of amplifier and how cheap/expensive it is)).
I wanted one of these as a kid. My neighbor had a game gear, i thought it was so cool. The display is as crappy as i remember it back then though 😂 tough to get a good angle.
A friend of mine back when we were kids experimented with the game gear tv. If you get a classic console such as a genesis, snes, or n64 with a RF adapter for channels, set the Game gear tv to VHF and put the RF cable on top of the antenna and set it to channel 4 you can get a semi clear picture playing snes or n64 of your gamegear.
I wanted this so bad as a kid in the early 90's. Was dreaming how id be the cool kid watching TV at school. As an adult I realized it would have been crappy daytime TV, not Nickelodeon 😂
in the U.S., Full power Analog TV broadcasting has been switched off in june 12, 2009, Class A Analog TV Broadcasting in September 2015, and Low Power Analog TV Broadcasting in July 2021 (the last, Alaska in January 2022). and in brazil, my country, from 2023, Analog TV Broadcasting will cease. from Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The only analog channel I got after the switch to digital was QVC. But that was a long time ago, shortly after the switch, so I don’t know if they still do that.
Take the cable wire for a vcr or a atari or something. Take the center pin wire from the cable against the antenna and dial in whatever channel its set for... 2 3 4 itll work
Still works; but since we went digital as per mandates, (which made some companies money and the rest of us pay for regular channels...don't get me started on the value of analog vs digital), you won't pick anything up. Never knew such a device existed, so 👍 for that.
From my understanding there is two ways to get this thing to work in this day and age I don't think it has an auxiliary port but if it does that's one way also there was some devices that were Wireless that would tune in to the TV on an analog say no I think if I remember I saw somebody with a VCR once kind of similar to how you have those devices in your car for music with the radio stations in the Bluetooth. So yeah with the right equipment it's possible to kind of use it
It could be possible to use the Game Gear and it’s tuner as an external display for analog fpv drones. Considering that analog fpv drones have pretty short video transmission capabilities, you would have to be pretty close to it.
Depends on the country you’re in. But the united states stopped using analog tv back in 2009. The Deficit Reduction Act was signed President Bush in 2006.
Its not the fault of the Game Gear, the TV signal has massively changed and requires a much different decoding process, the poor console never had a chance.
I think everyone already knew that answer since free TV has been all digital for years now. But maybe you could figure out how to connect one of the digital TV boxes to it 😂
I wouldn't say no...i would say it's inconclusive because it claimed to receive TV broadcasts during the 1990s which means it only receives analog TV signals, not digital TV signals.
Yes, it does work in 2023! across Europe and Asian countries, it works out of the box without a mod. In the US you have to mod it with a digital tuner. My friend did this for fun with an extra Sega TV device he had
Aren't those all analog? When they switched everything to digital, companies bought up all the analog channels that were left. There was a nefarious reason for that, but I don't remember the reason now, it's been like 15 or 16 years since that whole thing happened. God I could only imagine how many batteries that thing would've taken back in the day...I couldn't play more than 3-4 hours back in the day because of the "luxury" of the backlight and the color screen. Although to be fair you couldn't play Gameboy worth a shit in any darkness.
You could probably hook up a DTV converter box to it and get it to work. Will probably look very grainy and ultra lo-res though, since the signals it will pick up are now digital and the low res GG screen was never meant for high res images.
You can with something like the satellite dish or smart tv but that’s good if you don’t have a TV at all if you want to use even a be very good quality of roku but have it from hdmi to av adapter.
