How do you hook up a DVD player to a TV with only one cable plug on the back of it?

Answer 1

Hooking Up a VCR and DVD to a TV with One Cable PlugHook the incoming cable from either the antenna, satellite, or cable system to the VCR. From there go to the DVD player, and then to the TV. AnswerIt sounds like you're trying to hook AV awesome cables from your DVD player to your TV which only has an AC input. If this is the case, try using an AC cable (ordinary antenna cable) to connect your VCR to your TV by plugging one end into the output the other to your TV. (There are typically two AC plugs on a VCR, one is input the other output.) Look on your VCR for AV input. These are plugs that are red, white and yellow. Some VCR's only have white and yellow. There should be three, or six plugs (two, or four if you have a mono VCR) Plug the Yellow chord into the yellow input socket, and be sure it's not plugged into the output socket. Do likewise with the White chord, and if you have a red plug do the same. There should be simalar atachments on your DVD player. Be sure to plug the chords into the sockets marked output on the DVD player. In order to watch a DVD, you will need to turn your TV to channel 3, or 4, and set your VCR to its video monitoring setting. This varies with each VCR. Usally there is a button on the remote that Says VIDEO. Other times it is a channel number (I've seen 91, 00, 100).

If you want to watch TV, plug the tv cable into the VCR's input(usally right next to the output).

If you still have trouble, I would suggest, plugging everything in and out and play with it until you have a picture. And, if you're VCR doesn't have AV input, you can buy a converter at your electronics provider. Ask the geek behind the counter for an AV to AC converter.

Answer 2

I reommend getting a Home Theatre unit which everything would go to and then that routes to the TV. So basically, all inputs go the to Home Theatre unit and it is used to route to the TV. The cable signal can also be split prior to going to the TV, so you can have cable input to the VCR or DVD recorder for recording purposes. The DVD and VCR are basically players, thus output a signal, so they are inputs to the home theatre unit. On the back of the home theatre unit you have inputs for all these devices. The cost of an entry level home theatre unit can be as low as $100 including speakers, and goes up (way up) from there.

Answer 3

The only 1 cable solution that carries both audio and video signals, including HD signals is an HDMI cable. However, there is a 99% probability that your DVD recorder does not have an HDMI input! 99.9 % of home theatre electronics for recording (DVR, DVD-R, and such) don't allow the recording of HD content. The exception to this is OTA broadcasts from Public Television. Recording HD OTA broadcasts is possible with a DVR that has an ATSC tuner built in. If you were to ask if there is a way to pump HD audio and video signals from a Coax out to the ATSC Coax in... the manufacturers have already thought of it, and that does not exist either to date as far as I know. With the amount of data that HD movies and HD sound contain, a 2 hour program would not fit on a dual-layer DVD +R, -R, or RAM. That is why HD-DVD players and Blue-Ray players have entered the home theatre arena. If you were to say, "But my DVD recorder supports 720p and 1080i"... that only means that the *player* functionality UPCONVERTS the 480i signal on the disc, to a decent picture that seems to have the look of HD quality.

And no, I have never worked at BestBuy.

Answer 4

Use the Yellow and white cord only if that is all your TV has. It is Mono. Stereo is when you have the red composite cable port on device too. You can use any RCA cables as long as yellow port goes to yellow port..etc.

Answer 5

There are two ways to do this:

# Using a coaxial cable, connect the TV and the VCR together. # Using RCA jacks and cables, connect the cables between the two.

Both scenarios allow taping and playback.

Answer 6

I assume you are talking a DVD player

, not a DVD recorder

.

If you have a newer TV, you should have multiple inputs that can be used for either device: composite inputs, component inputs, HDMI ports and the good old coax antenna connection. If this is the case, connect the converter box to one of these, and the DVD to the other.

If you have an older TV with only the antenna connector, you will need to manually connect and disconnect the devices, or buy a switch that allows you to change antenna inputs. If your DVD does not have an antenna output (many don't), you will need an RF modulator (RF converter), but you won't need the switch - the modulator will only connect to your TV when the DVD power is on, and otherwise will feed the converter box to the TV's antenna input.

Answer 7

Read the instructions that came with them.

Answer 8

get a cable splitter and some extra coaxial wire/ the splitter has a single cable connection on one end and 2 at the othet. They are cheap. The wire is a little more costly.

Answer 9

You can route other things such as your cable through the DVD player, or you can buy a splitter, whichs connects more than one object on one side and the other side plugs into your TV.