Caller ID displayed on TV

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 5

I think it would be neat if through the wireless network the caller ID could display (unobtrusively) on the TV screen. Cool

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 3

You can do this if you have a satelite system (Directv or Dish) that support this and you have it plugged into a phone jack that has your Vonage on it. Most of the new receivers has this feature built in.

RP

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 5

[font=Comic Sans MS] [/font]Thanks for the reply but I have cable TV so I guess I will have to wait til they feature it there. Wink

Posts: 274 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 274

Cable? Did you say cable? How primitive! Razz

Many fully modified DirecTV/TIVOs here, with no problem "dialing" out. either. Wink

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 5

Yeah but you don't live in a forest of trees so that you cannot see the satelites. I tried to go DirectTV and they sand "nocando". So I am stuck with cable. Confused

Lucky you!

Posts: 274 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 274

That's when it's time to get the chainsaw out, Al Gore be damned! Lol

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 5

"Al Gore be damned! " words that warm my heart.
Very Happy

Posts: 13 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 13

There are lots of devices to do this already, but it can only be done to an RCA video signal (the yellow jack on your TV/VCR) it cannot be done accross all channels via the Coax jack, not a problem, it just means you wire it like this...

Coax from Ant. or Cable company > VCR or Cable box (which you will use as the tuner) > Yellow RCA out > CallerID device > TV (which you'll keep set on input: Video 1)

http://www.avtechsolutions.com/he_caller_id.htm
http://www.shoptronics.com/tvsetcaldisu.html
http://www.smarthome.com/5151r.html

This is also supported in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 or Windows Vista's Media Center, if you have your Vonage phone line connected to your computer's modem, and that Modem supports Caller ID (usually the Connextant chipset PCI internal type modems)