Yes if it has RCA A/V inputs
I'm sorry, but without special hardware - you don't. HDMI is a digital meta-data-enabled connector, while RCA is analog signal type. You would have to have a device that would take the digital information, decode it and send it off as analog to the TV.
HDTV is digital, RCA jacks are composite. They're not compatible video formats. You'd need a digital to analog converter.
The TVs without a converter box or digital signal will only be able to pick up analog channels, so once they change all of the channels to digital, the TV cannot pick up any channels, most likely resulting in snow.
Those particular channels may yet still be analog from your cable provider. Try doing a channel search with the analog tuner portion of your TV and see if they show up there. If they do, you'll have to switch between digital and analog inputs on your TV to receive the channels.
Types of output to an analoge television set are composite or S video for video and RCA / red and white audio.
One can convert an analog TV to HDTV by using a set top box or digital analog tuner converter box. One does require a HD ready TV though to be able to watch the HD channels.
Blu-Ray players normally have RCA jacks for analog outputs. It is these that can be used to connect to analog televisions but the signal will be standard definition rather than high definition.
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It's not exactly a law to have a digital to analog converter box but they are needed to be able to watch television if you don't have a television with a digital receiver. Both the US and UK are going through a changeover from analog television broadcasts to digital broadcasts. In the US, major television channels had to be transmitted as a digital signal and their analog transmitters turned off in 2009. Smaller stations and community channels have more time to switch over. In the UK, all analog transmitters will be turned off by 2012. In both cases, once the analog transmitter is turned off, the only way to receive television channels is to use a digital receiver, sometimes referred to as an anlog box. The receiver changes the digital signal into a form that older analog televisions can display. The boxes mean that older televisions can still be used. All new televisions have a digital receiver built in so a separate box isn't needed.
Yes, you can connect your cable box to your TV using RCA composite cables. Simply connect the yellow (video) and either the red or white (audio) RCA cables from the cable box to the corresponding inputs on your TV. Then, select the correct input source on your TV to view the cable channels.
Set top box is basically used to convert the digital signals broadcasted by digital signal broadcasters to analog signals, in case you wish to have your analog tv, but would like to have an access to digital channels. Digital channels definitely have better quality signals than analog and therefore you will have a better picture quality and signal quality even though you have converted the digital signals to analog.