Help With Hooking Up Player.

[iceblinkfroufrou]

hi.

i realize this is a very, very basic problem, so please don't laugh too much as you may choke! unlike most people here who i imagine know just about everything to do with sound and vision, i definitely do not.

when it comes to hooking up cables and stuff i nearly always have trouble, i hate it.

i got a cheapo dvd player via ebay a mth or so ago, after being without one for over a year. i hooked it all up to my lcd tv and my surround sound amp and it all seemed ok as far as playing dvds go.

however the player was crap and whats more had no display at the front of the player at all! i chucked it[only cost $5.50 new!]

yesterday my new player arrived. anyway i hooked up the cables the correct way[so i thought] and put in a disc.

i can hear the thing playing but can't see any picture.

i realize its just something simple and very basic that i'm not doing but i don't know what. i've tried plugging and unplugging cables but to no avail.

this is what is going on at the moment.

i have a coax cable from my amp to the dvd player.

s-video cable from the dvd player to the tv.

white and red

cable going from dvd[audio out] to the tv.

someone told me i need to put a cable into the yellow video plug, but wouldn't the s-video take care of all that?

hope you can help?

ps. just realized this is probably in the wrong place however i wasn't sure where it should go. perhaps a mod can move it?

Edited May 26, 2008 by brent ford

[Shonky*]

To start: Component connection (or even HDMI) would be better than SVideo.

Your particular problem I would guess is one of few things.

1) You've simply picked the wrong video input i.e. you might have the Svideo on AV1 but the sound on AV2 on the back of the TV.

2) In the DVD player setup it might need to be set to output SVideo (instead of component or HDMI). I kind of doubt this though since this would stuff up many people and if they didn't have the component or HDMI cabling, they'd never be able to get it to work.

3) The audio you are hearing is because it's coming via the coax connection to the amp. Have you got the right AV connection? (similar to 1).

If you are using the SVideo, then you do not need the "yellow" cable (called a composite connection). You are correct there. SVideo is quite a bit better quality than composite too.

What you have described is all correct. I'm guessing you've just got a wrong connection.

Technically you don't need the red/white audio cable, but what that does allow is that you can watch DVDs without using the amp (i.e. just the TV speakers).

[jakes]

What you have described is all correct. I'm guessing you've just got a wrong connection.

Yes, I agree, probably wrong input selected. If you still can't get it to work after checking which input you're using, it might be worth hooking it up with the composite cable (yellow rca) just to check whether the video output on the player is working properly.

[iceblinkfroufrou]

god, i don't believe it!!!

its fixed!

i was reading your two replies when something in them obviously clicked in my head.

of course, i didn't do THAT!

very embarrassing, but you know the 'source' button on the remote? well i pressed it and then clicked on 's-video', da-da, i got pictures!

something so simple, i'd just forgotten all about doing that, how bloody ridiculous. unbelievable really.

i've just had so little to do with dvd players and digital tv.

anyway a big thank you to both of you, something i read just made the solution pop into my head, cheers.

Edited May 27, 2008 by brent ford