Turning on a Game Gear TV Tuner in 2023 to see what channels work!
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@gernblanston3363 Жыл бұрын
Already knew the answer to that. TV went all digital years ago.
@G1sandG1rlsGaming Жыл бұрын
@@foster-uz5rtit means either a station or an individual in your area is still broadcasting analogue signals
@RockyP77 Жыл бұрын
OTA is still a thing... you just need a digital tuner.... this is analog.
@websurferblue7 ай бұрын
Yup that’s right
@Michoacan5177 ай бұрын
This rude content hoar already knew it won’t work. I thought they’d show connecting it to an RF adaptor to show video from another analog source.
@joshlepley13067 ай бұрын
@@foster-uz5rtbecause the TV has a built in digital tuner. It just uses the antenna to pick up signal
@itiswhatitis1415 ай бұрын
Somehow watching tv on a game gear was way cooler than watching tv on a smartphone nowadays
@The_Cool_Cat_3 ай бұрын
Yup 😎👍 cause smartphones suck, but the Game Gear Rocks 🤘🤘🤘
@beauwalker98202 ай бұрын
Or Gameboy Video.
@derealized79711 күн бұрын
I used to have one of those small portable handheld Casio TVs in the 90s and i loved that thing. It was perfect for long trips or when the power went out, but as far as cell phones go, the world was far better off before everyone was glued to "smart phones". Some things just went too far.
@BlackAirForceEnergy19 күн бұрын
@@The_Cool_Cat_atleast smartphones don't die in 3 hours+I remember you saying Sega will make great consoles again, if they did they will go bankrupt again
@Donkey_Lips Жыл бұрын
Not in the US, tv is broadcasted digitally. If this was tested before 2009, it would probably work
@vel21187 ай бұрын
are there possibly countries where it could work?
@aycc-nbh72896 ай бұрын
@@vel2118Maybe not in countries that have data plans for smartphones.
@scarx91516 ай бұрын
Yes I remember when they announced that, and after we had to pay for basic channels??? That to this day is the biggest con of TV history.
@jimbotron70Ай бұрын
@@vel2118 Maybe in some African countries.
@Mushroom.Madness.4 күн бұрын
@@scarx9151 yeah but ? All you had to do was buy a digital converter. The government even provided the digital converters to the people who couldn't afford one 😂
@Mike-nf6nf Жыл бұрын
Sega *needs* to make a digital version of the TV Tuner!
@wolvenar10 ай бұрын
The digital standard keeps being changed. Otherwise us old rf/console hacker types would be building a solution for today's TV
@koolaid332 ай бұрын
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.
@razcarsey6635Ай бұрын
@@koolaid33Digital OTA TV has nothing to do with WiFi
@jimbotron70Ай бұрын
@@koolaid33 Technically it would be very possible, it wouldn't make sense financially. Maybe some hobbyist project would.
@homerhat420Ай бұрын
This short was more video game related work than Kotaku has done in years
@JohnnyinCLE2 ай бұрын
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.
@lastwymsi Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
In Canada too right?
@Otaku3009 Жыл бұрын
@@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
@surfthestreets86 Жыл бұрын
@@Otaku3009 ah I see, thanks for the info. I just get a red line on mine haha
@theish9 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@reducedfaticecreamisjustde144710 ай бұрын
It's possible to build your own analog tv transmitter. the Simon youtube channel has a great video on it
@VorkKnightOfGood11 ай бұрын
Technically, the tuner is working 😅
@SmashJT11 ай бұрын
Touché! 😆
@YumeBasil Жыл бұрын
Would've been the perfect Rick Roll
@adoggewokepupper11 ай бұрын
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
@lockepsb Жыл бұрын
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.
@d.l.rittenberry63948 ай бұрын
I wanted this so bad when I was a kid.
@erikmorales10044 ай бұрын
Same
@DDavEE2 ай бұрын
Me too. Had Game Gear, Genesis, Sega CD, and the 32X. But the one thing I really wanted and never got was the TV Tuner for Game Gear.
@Larry Жыл бұрын
Theres a video in port on the tuner you can use, seen people run a DVD player off it.
@SmashJT Жыл бұрын
Haha I had no idea - now I want to try that 😝
@Judah_Vic11 ай бұрын
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.
@scragglewaggle41098 ай бұрын
How is Larry on the most random stuff I see it great to see😂
@greymatter778 ай бұрын
Hello, you! It's a Larry Easter Egg. Here's a fact worth hunting... I need more videos!
@mattcasdorph Жыл бұрын
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.
@RockBandPlayer8411 ай бұрын
Modern ones probably have a digital TV tuner inside
@mattcasdorph11 ай бұрын
@@RockBandPlayer84 they may now. I havent really searched for mini radio TV's for a while since I dont have a need for one
@cirkuitknight2 ай бұрын
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.
@expgretaillegacy Жыл бұрын
It does if you connect a dtv box or a vcr to the external antenna port with an adapter
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
I just hooked mine up an watched TV on it
@djonenonly83819 ай бұрын
explaine
@expgretaillegacy9 ай бұрын
@@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!
@PaulieAFantoneJays193 ай бұрын
@@expgretaillegacy...Thats amazing, is there any chance you can make a video for this set up, I bet it would be very popular & very useful to us 😄😉
@Lyricaldeamin Жыл бұрын
Wow I love this. Even though it doesn’t work, it’s still an interesting piece of history
@G1sandG1rlsGaming Жыл бұрын
Technically there's nothing wrong with the device itself, it's just that analogue signals aren't broadcasted anymore.
@Lyricaldeamin Жыл бұрын
@@G1sandG1rlsGaming thanks for explaining
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
It does work
@Lyricaldeamin10 ай бұрын
@@illkid86 I mean since it don’t work for him. But I understand that it would work
@user-se2ez7lu3v2 ай бұрын
@@G1sandG1rlsGamingexcept a few islands and areas
@ShyGuy8311 ай бұрын
No surprise there. Recently, I got rid of an old handheld TV that I had owned since 1999 that hasn’t worked since, maybe 2013.
@bradleymorgan8223 Жыл бұрын
The tuner works, but there's nothing to find. Interesting relic
@Judah_Vic11 ай бұрын
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.
@wormskull24542 ай бұрын
There’s a video somewhere on KZfaq 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.
@SpeccyHorace Жыл бұрын
Given they switched analogue off nearly 15 years ago I had a feeling it was going to be a no tbh.
@truckerbrad60729 ай бұрын
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
@TheLastLineLive Жыл бұрын
Hmm, it’s almost like the channels aren’t there anymore🤔
@RockyP77 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
They aren't
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
The channels have been retired and the signal was bought by cellphone companies
@colec0 Жыл бұрын
You can use the AV input and use it as a monitor for your.. NES!
@SmashJT Жыл бұрын
Who really?? I need to try that!
@ironmidg Жыл бұрын
@@SmashJT Just tried it, works great! Also played Mario Kart64 on it lol
@pacsonic90009 ай бұрын
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)).
@TH-fx9dc11 күн бұрын
It's a digital world now... my friend.
@volvo0911 ай бұрын
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.
@SonofSethoitae11 ай бұрын
I wonder if you could modify one for digital tv signals?
@DhavidSetiawanKilluaDhavid Жыл бұрын
Analog Switch Off 😂😂
@superJK92 Жыл бұрын
how do you know that
@DhavidSetiawanKilluaDhavid Жыл бұрын
@@superJK92Almost every region already move on from Analog to Digital TV or maybe cable if you have a money.
@bmw328igearhead Жыл бұрын
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.
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
The tv tuner works since it has an av output hook that to a converter box and an antenna and you're good
@tankman-ku5zc13 күн бұрын
Had a portable tv as a kid,was veey cool.
@getondese11 ай бұрын
I was a proud honor of one of those when it came out. Would have liked to have had a TG express but even back then it was pricey
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
I'm using it now
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
The turno express never took off
@furrysourcecode98093 күн бұрын
Depending on where you live where I'm at and what you get as an antenna as well as the tuner there are about over 130 channels. There was a lady here who had one of those tvs with the old fashion green volume bar which wouldn't pick up anything over the air and one where the TV only had options like catv and TV. There's a dude who showed that you could broadcast to a device like this via a uhf converter, a cable Amp and an Attenna
@williamsphil9445Ай бұрын
A kid I knew had one of those, we stayed up late once and watched Beavis and Butthead on it.
@zombiejlt1Күн бұрын
In my part of Arizona, I can still get broadcasts from the Spanish TV network
@101919278 ай бұрын
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.
@dsimpson5304 ай бұрын
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 😂
@codyserucsak2501Ай бұрын
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
@ls1_cammeroh9 ай бұрын
Good old days. Where is time going
@DougZbikowski8 ай бұрын
You could wire a digital converter box to the antennas leads. It would work then, but it would be a mess to deal with.
@unitedstatesofamerica923916 күн бұрын
I don't know why this is so sad to me. It's like we lost contact with an era of people from a different world, and all is silent now... 😢
@jefferyhodges883525 күн бұрын
Hollywood got greedy, made us all go digital, so that way it would force us to pay for cable! But 15 years later no one really watches cable anymore!😂
@antonio_carvalho4 ай бұрын
Please, God, give me those 50 seconds back 🙏🏻
@chriss436525 күн бұрын
You need a hd to analog converter box. I used it to make a analog handheld tv work a few years ago.
@ringfitmaster3079 Жыл бұрын
Dude that is so cool. I'm so jealous.
@guitarofdestiny9 ай бұрын
End of an era
@gigglehurtz316712 күн бұрын
would have been amazing to have as a child
@ZetaCancri2 ай бұрын
i've had mine since the early 90s
@Retrato_lo_Retro4 ай бұрын
great game gear
@ventiankraus9802 ай бұрын
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.
@BarryRerack1472 ай бұрын
My mum used to say if you have nothing good to say then don't say anything at all" Today if you have nothing good to say just start a youtube channel.
@soulofexistence10 ай бұрын
Just came here after seeing this device on Isekai Ojisan, I'm really impressed with how accurate that anime is with it's references lol
@ericcook57452 ай бұрын
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
@youngelton97387 ай бұрын
It might work better if you use it in or near the border of Canada because they still have analog channels for news channels
@rustymixer28865 ай бұрын
Its a shame megamix didnt use saturn hi res mode
@NEXXI-8 ай бұрын
There is a way to hook it up to a decoder and it still works.
@ZERO48HERO13 Жыл бұрын
Wait a minute have you tried moving the antenna thingy
@WizardClipAudio8 ай бұрын
Make a battery powered digital converter for it, and it’ll work again. 😂
@LordHaveMurcielago2 ай бұрын
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.
@HylianBull6 ай бұрын
You already know to gotta wrap thr antenna in foil amd put it in a wierd position for it to work.
@qphlat27 Жыл бұрын
There's no reason I should still want one..
@kingjaekob6 ай бұрын
works in El Paso TX, get MExcan TV channels from Juarez Mexico!
@DivineFate9002 ай бұрын
Btw if you have an exteral input you can still watch tv and and other videos devices
@juanmarquez998811 ай бұрын
Madhouse children without dream sega out there
@mukiex4413Ай бұрын
You gotta touch an RF cable to the antenna XD
@Nodnarb518 Жыл бұрын
Everything is digital now. There’s nothing to pick up on these analog tuners.
@donnydebruijn424 Жыл бұрын
Just as i expected from such an old technology, but i think it had their time. It feels odd that you can watch TV on a portable videogame system.
@starpier2 ай бұрын
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.
@akoww10008 ай бұрын
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
@brancast116 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ShockerTopper2 ай бұрын
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.
@richardsonalvesmoura4447 Жыл бұрын
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.
@okamijubei9 ай бұрын
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.
@CarlosCaterpillar200411 ай бұрын
Born in Febuary 17 2009, i was watching Octonauts while the Analog is being shut off.
@LoafingMushroom3 ай бұрын
If you were really hell bent on watching something you could always play NES in RF mode and display it on the game gear.
@JonathanJones-bc8kx Жыл бұрын
Funny thing is sega give us first ever TV the on go how we can not play game gear games on the actual TV like we did with GAMEBOY games
@DIOBrando-ij2bp7 ай бұрын
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.
@RiverOfBlacklights11 ай бұрын
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.
@illkid8610 ай бұрын
It does with hooked to a dtv box I just watched tv on my game gear
@Judah_Vic11 ай бұрын
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.
@jediron16919 күн бұрын
Over the air channels went digital like 15 years ago? The old antenna's won't pick up anything anymore.
@gabrielbravo221213 күн бұрын
I remember when we went digital that’s when TV started to suck even more
@BigFunnyGiantАй бұрын
Well technically it does, but there are no TV channels that it can receive.
@MafiaAt2amLIVEАй бұрын
Try it in the Dominican Republic it works
@juanmarquez998811 ай бұрын
Make sega comeback with tv too epp to previous to psp
@jacob_n_r_z87558 ай бұрын
I bet in some countries you can make it work
@suhtangwong7 ай бұрын
Digital tuners killed analog tuners 😢
@b.o.449227 күн бұрын
Careful Todd Gloria is going to sieze that to pay for more bike lanes!
@audioman8083 ай бұрын
Obviously know it's not going to work cuz your TV won't work with an antenna no more that single was disconnected years ago
@troy1388 Жыл бұрын
Nope! It's still cool to see past history for memories.
@j.lietka9406Ай бұрын
Had a Game Gear years ago. I thought about getting the TV tuber, but didnt!
@the.real.Deano.3 ай бұрын
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 😂
@Andrew-sy6on Жыл бұрын
Every station literally changed its signal format when they went to HD. This was definitely a waste of time
@PhilJLFАй бұрын
Goodness I wish I had that on mine wtf I didn’t even know about that
@urirendonownerpurebrokersl8099 Жыл бұрын
That’s thang is so cool
@davidmccoyjr81476 ай бұрын
Not unless you have a dtv converter box,antenna and 3.5mm to av cable.
@matthewlucent7645Ай бұрын
To be fair, it didn't really work 30 years ago either.
@gahangore1112 ай бұрын
Only a smoothbrain would try this in 2024
@theish9 Жыл бұрын
Didn't know that existed
@narniaphuket5 күн бұрын
analogue tv stopped airing years ago
@rondellmcclary98088 ай бұрын
Tv went digital years ago
@MrDemonsushiGuy8 ай бұрын
thought you were going to plug in something into the av port