Tech VANITY! FReeper Tech Help-HELP

My crib ^ | 10/28/06 | Me

[MotleyGirl70]

Here's the deal with pictures:

I'm trying to hook up a DVD player to my little t.v.

That's it. I followed the directions and nothing is happening.

There are yellow, white and red cords and I put them in the holes and nothing happens. Two hours and I still get nothing. FReeper help needed...please.

[MotleyGirl70]

Any help is appreciated. Thanks! I'm at my wits end :)

Yes, I put the batteries in the remote.

My t.v. remote is on the left and the new one is one the right and those are the cords.

[ZGuy]

Are your tuning your TV to "line in" instead of channel 3? You'll probably need to.

[MotleyGirl70]

No. Let me try that.

[Red Steel]

Is your TV switched to video or video disk (VTP) setting?

[Red Steel]

Do you have a s-video cable? If so try that...

[Red Steel]

VTP = DVD

[MotleyGirl70]

I don't know what s-cable is. I'm not running on any cable channels; just standard (NBC,CBC, ABC and PBS).

[Spruce]

There is probably a button on your tv remote named "Input". Turn everything on and press that button.

[MotleyGirl70]

Which button is that?

[Red Steel]

Your TV and DVD player are s-video capable. It's that black, round, looking connection. The s-video cable can take the place of your RCA plugs to transfer sound and video to your TV.

[Red Steel]

Sometimes video devices broadcast on channel 2 rather than channel 3 but not often.

[MotleyGirl70]

No I don't have that. But I played the DVD with movie and I can hear it moving around.

[darkwing104]

Does your T.V. remote have a video mode/input Selection?

The picure of the backside of the TV indicates that it should have that option.

[MotleyGirl70]

Nope. Oh well. I was all excited to watch my first DVD tonight too. Maybe my t.v. is wrong or something. I can take back the DVD player tomorrow to Best Buy.

[Red Steel]

Ensure your video-out (yellow plug) on your DVD goes to the video-in on your TV, and your DVD audio-out(white plug) goes to your TV audio-ins - white for L and red for R.

[MotleyGirl70]

No. It's just a little Sony flat screen. Maybe I can't have DVDs on it.

[stlnative]

You don't need to take it back...

Does the TV have a "plug in" like what is in postion 9 on the DVD player?

[Red Steel]

I see three sets of video-ins/audio-ins on your tv, make sure they are plugged in the correct plug-ins...in a perpendicular line -- top-to-bottom.

[darkwing104]

From what I see, that T.V. is capable. There is someing in the set-up of the DVD player not alowing it. See if you can find, in the instructions, settings for an NSTC T.V. From what I am seeing, it showing you how to hook it up to a HDTV T.V.

[MotleyGirl70]

Okay. I did white L and R red and yellow is in there.