Comments on: DTV Converter Box Battery Hack Means My Sony Watchman Is No Longer Obsolete

By: Bobby Harris

Bobby Harris — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:20:26 +0000

I don't have to buy a satellite dish to watch my WatchMan. Hallelujah!!!!

By: yuandrew

yuandrew — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:48:43 +0000

Only problem I believe is that the Sony Watchman model FD-10A you're showing does not have a composite AV input like Kipkay's Casio model EV-570 hand held TV. (The A/V input on Casio hand held TVs uses a special cable with RCA plugs on one end that goes to the source and a "headphone" plug on the end that goes into the TV)

If you have a portable TV that only has a built in antenna; I believe you can take a piece of wire with an alligator clips on the ends and clip one side onto your TV's built in antenna. Stick an unbent paper clip into the "TV RF out" jack on the back of the converter box and clip the other end of the wire there. Turn the converter on and tune the Watchman to VHF Channel-3.

I'm looking at the back of my Winegard RC-DT09A converter box as I type this which was already marketed as a battery powered DTV converter when I bought it back in January; three months before Kipkay modded his RCA DTA800

By: kraftekat

kraftekat — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:03:58 +0000

Any luck yet finding a way to get you watchman converted by battery operated box. I have two 5″ black & white screen TV to get converter boxes for. But I have not found a 12volt battery operated one.

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dofus kamas — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:58:43 +0000

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By: rahul

rahul — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:59:31 +0000

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