Connecting DVD Player?

Question

I just got a DVD player but I have no idea how to connect it.I read the booklet and still clueless.I have a TV with a VCR connected already so how would I connect this DVD player to my TV / VCR?

Answer 1

It sounds like you TV doesn't have AV ins You will need a RF modulator to accomplish this. Should cost around 20 - 40 bucks

Answer 2

If you have more than one video source input on your TV plug in the DVD player via the yellow/white and red outputs or into a scart socket. If you don't have any more left (and you have red/yellow/white output on the back of the DVD and an input on the video machine (front / back), plug into that. Let me know if you're still confused!
Since you don't give me much of a clue as to what connections are available to you, I am answering with as much information as possible. Some may not apply to your situation.

Look at the back of your TV or read your TV manual and see what connections are available to you. Also look at the DVD player and check out the connections there.

If you have component video connections, use those as they will provide very good picture from your DVD player. If you don' t have component video, the next step down is an S-video connector. Don't see that? Then the next connection is composite video. Is your VCR already taking up the composite video connection and you don't have a second one? A possible solution for that is a composite video switcher.

If by chance you don't have any of those connections then you would need to go to the store and buy an "RF modulator" You would hook up your DVD player to the RF modulator and connect the modulator between your VCR and TV.

Also, you will need to hook up the audio output of the DVD player either to your TV or the RF modulator.

One more thing. Although your VCR probably has a video in connection, do not use it as a means to hook up the DVD player. Unfortunately, there is anti-copying hardware built in to most VCR's making the video unwatchable
It sounds like you TV doesn't have AV ins You will need a RF modulator to accomplish this. Should cost around 20 - 40 bucks

Answer 3

Since you don't give me much of a clue as to what connections are available to you, I am answering with as much information as possible. Some may not apply to your situation.

Look at the back of your TV or read your TV manual and see what connections are available to you. Also look at the DVD player and check out the connections there.

If you have component video connections, use those as they will provide very good picture from your DVD player. If you don' t have component video, the next step down is an S-video connector. Don't see that? Then the next connection is composite video. Is your VCR already taking up the composite video connection and you don't have a second one? A possible solution for that is a composite video switcher.

If by chance you don't have any of those connections then you would need to go to the store and buy an "RF modulator" You would hook up your DVD player to the RF modulator and connect the modulator between your VCR and TV.

Also, you will need to hook up the audio output of the DVD player either to your TV or the RF modulator.

One more thing. Although your VCR probably has a video in connection, do not use it as a means to hook up the DVD player. Unfortunately, there is anti-copying hardware built in to most VCR's making the video unwatchable.

Answer 4

If you don't have another video source on your TV and don't
have an audio receiver for the extra connections, then you
should take back the DVD player, and get a combination
VCR/DVD player, and just hook it up like you would your
VCR -and voila! Isn't it time to get a new VCR anyway?

H a p p y
H o m e
T h e a t e r i n g !

Xe♫

Answer 5

If you have more than one video source input on your TV plug in the DVD player via the yellow/white and red outputs or into a scart socket. If you don't have any more left (and you have red/yellow/white output on the back of the DVD and an input on the video machine (front / back), plug into that. Let me know if you're still confused!