How to transform your tube TV into a 'smart TV'

A small adapter of about 15 euros is causing fury in online stores because it makes it possible to see the Netflix, HBO or Yomvi and YouTube series on old TVs.

If you have your living room full of vinyls next to a turntable, you may also have an old tube TV somewhere dusty or even in use thanks to a DTT receiver. Whether by hispter, nostalgic or saver, if you are in this situation, you now have the possibility of putting the last old TV, incredible as it may seem. And is that, today, everything is pulled and replaced and the arrival of smart TV seemed to have left unusable for new times to a considerable number of televisions. However, it is not so. A small adapter of just over 15 euros is causing a rage in the stores that sell on the Internet, is getting the old TVs can adapt to the new times.

Conventional televisions come equipped with the HDMI port, a connector that has been with us since 2003 and has become the standard in the transmission of audio and video on current TV. The arrival of this new standard made obsolete the previous televisions, even some of flat screen and of great quality, but before 2003.

However, with that connector (16 euros) and a Chromecast (39 euros), the old TV is incorporated into a higher category in which we can enjoy YouTube or new services series like Netflix, HBO or Yomvi. Those who have an Apple TV at home can also connect it to the old TV, with the help of this same adapter, to have access to all these new contents and thus, by the way, to save the good peak that it would cost to acquire a new television.

With the connector and a device of the Chromecast style, it is possible to transmit the content of the mobile or tablet to the old television, that is to say, not only can you play YouTube videos, but also, if you have contracted television services to The letter, these emissions can be transmitted to the old television. Some users of these platforms comment on the net that they have been able to have televisions of 1978 are turned on the mobile to enjoy the content and even to raise and lower the volume in televisions without remote control. Whether by hispter fashion or nostalgia, technology shows us, once again, that it is capable of everything. Not only does it help us to move forward but also, as in this case, it helps us recover our personal treasures from the past.