I want to use my stereo speakers to listen to my tv?

Question

Equipment

1- 10yr old tv with only one cable slot in the back for the cable wire from the wall.

2- RF Modulator with two cable slots and the red, white, and yellow audio/visual slots.

3- DVD player with: two white slots, two red slots, one yellow slot, and one coaxial slot which uses the same type of wire.

4- Fairly new stereo with: red and white surround slots and red and white aux slots.

I used to have a vcr and hooked my stereo up to that and it worked. I don't have the vcr anymore. I hooked up the wires from my stereo to my dvd player and rf modulator every which way I could, but no sound. All I could hear was a buzzing sound. I want to watch tv without waking up everybody. I want to use my head phones through my stereo.

Can anyone help.

Answer 1

Plug in red and white to red and white from the red,white and yellow chord from your speakers to your tv. Make sure you are plugging into AUDIO OUT on the TV and AUDIO IN on your SPEAKERS.

Yellow - Video
White - Left Audio
Red - Right Audio

Answer 2

The RF Modular is giving you the buzzing. It modulates the RAW audio(RCA Connections) to RF so it can travel through the coaxial cable to the TV. When that happens all you hear is buzz. Then the TV or VCR converts the RF back to RAW again and it can be heard. I have run into this problem before on an install for a buddy.

Your only options are:

1. (EASIEST) Get another VCR

2. (HARDEST) Go out and buy two of those "Y" RCA cables that allow you to hook two items in one "slot" as you call them. Put one Y cable on the RED and one on the WHITE audio out slots in the back of the DVD player. Hook the stereo up to the DVD player using a cable that has Red and White RCA plugs. Hook the YELLOW cable and the other RED and WHITE cables from the DVD player to the RF Modulator as normal. So you should have the YELLOW video cable and one set of RED and White cables in the RF modulator with another set of RED and WHITE going from the back of the DVD player to the input slots of your stereo. (The only downside is you'll only have the DVD player audio coming out of your stereo/headphones, not the TV/Cable)

3.(MOST EXPENSIVE) Get a new TV with the RED, WHITE, and YELLOW RCA Connections

Hope this helps...Good Luck

Answer 3

The cable or antenna wire in( coaxle)
should go through a reciever something that can amplify the sound (audio) and send the picture (video)
if your surround sound has a coaxle input and the red , yellow or white out puts this would work
your vcr may have these type of connections as well
if you run it thoruch the vcr at least this will seperate the coaxle to the red,yellow and white out puts and those you can run through your reciever
make sure the reciever is set for where you put the wires on the back such as phono,tape,dvd, acc
good luck
hope this helps or just go to frys
they can hook you up im boycotting circuit city

Answer 4

Here's what you will need to do: Connect your DVD player from the audio out (red and white RCA cables) to the DVD input on the stereo. This should allow you to hear DVD audio from your audio system. If your TV has an audio out port on the back, you can take another RCA audio cable and use that to connect the TV to the receiver via the audio out port on the TV to an audio in port on the receiver.

It sounds like you are not using a standard home receiver, but instead a small boom-box-style unit. This may be tricky because the boom-box will likely only have one input, if any. I need more details about all of the ports on the TV, and receiver before I can tell you exactly how to hook it up.

Answer 5

From the RF modulator to the Audio in slots on the stereo
and leave the DVD player conected the way it is now

Basically you are telling the tv to send information to the stereo
hence in and out slots

Answer 6

some (my) encompass Sound / domicile theater stereo structures have a postpone settings for the rear encompass audio device, and a few for the middle speaker. in the journey that your stereo have those, set them to 0 (0) fee. Or attempt different sound configuration on the stereo.

Answer 7

Great!!!! Good Luck with all that!