Video can be delivered to a television in many different ways. Depending on what inputs your television has and how old the television set is, you may have to perform a video conversion in order to get the video to display correctly on the television. If you have video coming in from coaxial, a radio-frequency type of cable, but the only input you have is S-video, a video-only cable, you will have to run the video through some sort of converter box. Tips Warnings Writer Bio