How to Hook Up a Game Cube to a Digital Converter Box

You must use a digital converter box in order to watch programming on your analog TV.

If you have an older, analog-based television, you are required to use a digital converter box in order to watching programming on the TV. However, you may also run other devices through the digital converter box, such as the Nintendo GameCube gaming system. The GameCube provides its audio/video signal through RCA cables. If your television only has the standard coaxial cable input, you can use the converter box to change your RCA connection to the coaxial cable. This allows you to play the GameCube on any analog television that does not have RCA cable connections.

Things You'll Need

• Nintendo GameCube
• RCA audio/video cables (provided)
• Coaxial cable
• Digital converter box
• TV

Instructions

1. Connect the RCA audio/video cables into the "Video Out" port on the rear of your Nintendo GameCube. Insert the opposite ends of the cables into the "Video In" port on your digital converter box.

2. Attach the coaxial cable into the "Out" port on the digital converter box, then connect the free end of the cable into the "In" port on the back of the television.

3. Power on the digital converter box, Nintendo GameCube and the television.

4. Change the television to channel "3," and the Nintendo GameCube audio and video content appears on the screen and through the speakers.

References

• DTV Answers: DTV Converter Box Details