If you have an old TV but want to watch DVDs, you may have difficulty hooking up your DVD player. Most DVD players have a yellow RCA video output (called composite video) and an s-video output. Many older TVs just have a coaxial input.

Steps:

1. Purchase an RF modulator. This device will convert the output of your DVD player into a signal that can travel over the coaxial cable. They can be found at any video or  audio electronic store or better yet go to Raon in Quiapo to get the best deal.

2. Hook the composite output of your DVD player to the RF modulator, and the RF modulator coaxial output to your TV.

3. Select whether you want the image displayed on channel 3 or channel 4 on your TV.
4. Tune your TV to the chosen channel.

TIPS:

■ While it is often possible to connect a composite output from the DVD player to your VCR, and then your VCR to your TV via coaxial cable, the image will often be distorted. This happens because of copy protection (designed to keep you from recording the DVD onto a videotape using the VCR.)

■ However it is possible that by using an RF modulator, you can stabilize the video and record the DVD to VHS.

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TAMPUHAN
a classic painting by Juan Luna, 1895.  This painting depicts sweethearts having a lovers’ quarrel.

The Tagalog term tampo has no English equivalent.  Magtampo is usually translated as ‘to sulk’, but it does not quite mean that.  ‘Sulk’ seems to have a negative meaning which is not expressed in magtampo.   It is a way of withdrawing, of expressing hurt feelings in a culture where outright expression of anger is discouraged.  For example, if a child who feels hurt or neglected may show tampo by withdrawing from the group, refusing to eat, and resisting expressions of affection such as touching or kissing by the members of the family.  A woman may also show tampo if she feels jealous or neglected by her beloved.  Tampuhan is basically a lovers’ quarrel, often manifested in total silent treatment or not speaking to each other.

The person who is nagtatampo expects to be aamuin or cajoled out of the feeling of being unhappy or left out.  Parents usually let a child give way to tampo before he/she is cajoled to stop feeling hurt. 

Usually, tampo in Filipino culture is manifested in non-verbal ways, such as not talking to other people, keeping to one’s self, being unusually quiet, not joining friends in group activities, not joining family outing, or simply locking one’s self in his or her room.

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