A Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Television has a giant glass lightbulb inside on it's side ot display pictures. IT has one to three little light-beam shooters in the back called "Electron Guns" that stimulate the phosphors coated on the back of the giant lightbulb of which you can see, 60 times a second. Now the part I didn't tell ya' about in the Atari page, was just how bright and vivid these CRTs were - as it's improtant for the classic use of an NES with a specific peripheral (Zapper). CRT's, due to their nature, are brighter, crisper, and have "blacker" black and eye-blinding "white" colors when in use. This makes them ESSENTIAL if you plan to play say...Duck Hunt (a classic). Hence why so many "retro gamers" seek out CRT Devices to play NES on.

LCD Televisions work by having a giant, backlit panel full of transistors that display red/blue/green hues - not unlike the face of a color CRT. At first, the controller circuitry for these had problems with developing Artifacts on the screen due to something in how the NES outputs over Composite or RF. Then came the problem with DSP - or DIgital Signal Processing - where modern T.V.'s decide they like to have a pile of conditioners and effects like a rack-mounted 80's guitar rig. So all of these processes, having been setup with a timeslice of processing smaller than that of the NES itself, causes DELAY IN INPUT....hence why most newer TV's have a "Gaming Mode" - which shuts (most) of that shit off, and allows the TV to give you as close to lag-free input as you can get. Also, the black isn't as black and the white isn't "oh my god I'm facing the sun 300 feet away" bright, so Lightguns don't work with em'......so no Duck Hunt.

When you got the NES-001, Nintendo did an excellent job of making sure it could connect to almost any TV set in the USA. They provided the following items: an RF Switch (coaxial on both ends), a coax to horseshoe connector converter, a horseshoe to coax converter, and shockingly they did not offer Composite cables, though the original NES-001 units have a COMPOSITE output. And yes, you can use both outputs at the same time.

Old TV with 300 Ohm Horseshoe Terminals - Basically, what you did was you took that horseshoe converter with the "robot hands" hanging out of it, attached it to the back of the TV, and then screwed the RF switch into it (the cable coming out that's bigger). Then you took your TV Antenna, screwed the "robot hands" on that into the converter that looks like a little toy camera, and plugged the bigger part with the pin in it into the bottom of the RF switch where the screw-on connector is. The RCA jack went to the Nintendo where it says "RF" in the back.

80's/90's TV with "Cable" Coax - This was easy, and how ALL of my Nintendo consoles were connected to a TV during my teenage gaming heyday. Basically, you simply screwed the thicker cable coming out of the RF switch onto the Coax connector on the back of the TV, then you connected your Analog Cable TV cable by screwing that onto the screw terminal on the RF Switch. Then plug the RCA cable into the back of the NES where it says "RF Switch" and you're done. Set NES to desired Channel, 3 or 4 - I preferred 4, because The Soft Jazz from the Weather Channel (TM) made an excellent interlude between games.

Any TV with Composite

Modern TV with 1/8" Composite