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How to watch youtubes on big screen?

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How can you watch youtubes on a fairly recent tv purchase, a sony 60 inch that has some of these things built in, and watch say music of the 60's run threw and older stereo system, not an a/v receiver but have all the speakers, fronts, backs, center, subs etc. Can it be done? How? Would it be better to use modern receiver? Why?

I guess I'd also like to have an old fashioned tube macintosh, turntable etc and use the same system for this wish.
 

STUNKY

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Well if the tv has a smart feature, u will have to connect it to the Internet .with a Ethernet cable or through wifi. Then if the tv has YouTube on it u just watch it or get the app to watch it.. As for watch music from the sixties not sure what ya mean. But if u can plug the 2 together then u should be able to get music outta them.. Just match cable and locate input and outputs related to which way u r sending the signal
 

CarefulGrower

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Just need to connect your home speaker amp (with speakers hooked up) to your computer, voila! But, since I am terrible with knowing cord names, I did a quick search, came up with this -

you need a cable with 1 jack 3.5mm, and two RCA (left and right) on the other end.
Insert jack in the audio out plug (green one) on your computer and the two RCA in you AUX input on your home amplifier.
 

CarefulGrower

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woops, meant TV not PC, and if it lacks the inputs, most modern receivers should have them. Then send sound through the speakers/receiver if you used that. Then play Youtube.
 

foaf

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A $100 apple tv box is well worth the price, it plays netflix and you can buy stuff off of itunes too and youtube
 

festerous

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A used high end pre-amp with surround decoding ect. Can be had for a tiny fraction of the original cost from brands like Adcom, Rotel and NAD.
The tube amps found in early console stereos are plug and play and sound amazing definitely the poor man's Macintosh, just not as pretty to look at.
If you don't have a matched front and center pair use the pre amps "phantom" center setting and nix the center channel altogether.
everything can be had for under $300 sometimes much less and you can sell the Alnico speakers to recoup some of your investment.
 

Piel

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Luckily I have a smart brother who does shit like this for me, he´s started hooking up my stereo way back in the 70´s when it was simple -I couldn´t be bothered.

He´s a shit gardener, I´m not.

Brotherly love is a twoway street :)
 
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