Can you hook up a DVD player to a computer?

Question

I have to watch these DVD's for work, but I don't have a DVD player. Someone loaned me theirs, but I can not hook it up to my TV without an adapter and it is the middle of the night and the stores are closed. Can you hook up a regular DVD player to a computer and watch it that way? I don't want to ruin my computer or this person's DVD player either. What should I do? I only have a CD player on my laptop.

I don't have a VCR hooked up either. I do have one, but forgot how and can't find all of the wires. But sounds like good advise if I had a VCR hooked up to it. I live in the dark ages, I know. I thought I was doing good to have a "color" TV. I use to only buy black and white ones. ;-)

Answer 1

It can be done but it takes special adapters that you're not likely to find lying around the house.

If your TV is coaxial (the round cable plug w/ the wire in it) and you have a VCR hooked to it, check the back of the VCR.

More than likely that will have a set of RCA (the yellow/red/white plugs) inputs. That way you could hook your DVD player to your VCR, and turn your TV to 3 and run the DVD through the "auxiliary" or line-in function of the VCR.