Adding a dvd player to my dvr and older tv

Hi,

If your TV doesn't have a Video IN jack (Yellow) then you would have to attach your dvd by antenna (Coaxial) cable. What does the DVD have on the back ? EG: Video Out is Yellow, Red is Right Audio, White is Left Audio. If your DVD has Ant in & Ant Out you can use a coaxial cable from Ant out to your tv's antenna In socket and put your antenna cable (from your wall socket) to Ant in on the dvd. Turn on the dvd and put your tv on a blank station and tune your tv till you see the dvd screen . lock it in and that becomes your DVD channel to watch your dvd's.

Hope this is some help.

rca video out on DVD player toshiba SD3960 av in on tv
yellow is video part of rca
red and white is audio cable part of rca
change input source to AV 1 on tv when wacthing dvd player

for a more detailed explanation a photo of back of dvd player and model number of TV would be helpful

Check first if your device has terminals or connectors for RCA. These are for the cables with yellow, red and white colors. The red and the white are for the audio while the yellow is for the video. Older TVs or CRT's should have them. If its even an older model check and if there are no RCA connectors, see if your devices has terminals for coaxial. For cable boxes there may be only one and this goes to the cable company and there is a very slim chance that it would have another for the TV.
Bear in mind that you should also have the correct cables should you find the connectors present like RCA cable for the connectors and coaxial cable for the coaxial terminal.

I hope this will clarify things, you have 3 connections on each end.
DVD

• Yellow Cable goes on Video Out (Yellow)
• White Cable goes on Left Audio Out (White)
• Red Cable goes on Right Audio Out (Red)

TV

• Yellow Cable goes on Video IN (Yellow)
• White Cable goes on Left Audio IN (White)
• Red Cable goes on Right Audio IN (Red)

the coaxial audio connection does NOT need to be connected.
I hope this helps,
Magoo

from your dvd,plug the yellow to video output red and white to audio output. then plug the other end of the yellow to video input on tv and the red and white to audio input on tv. from tv, plug the other rca cable yellow to video output and red/white to audio output and the the other end yellow to dvd recorder video input and the ed and white to audio input

does your tv have scart sockets?

if so you can buy this adapter that on one side is the scart socket and the other is the yellow red white sockets


something like this


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Switched-SCART-Adapter-Red-Black-Yellow-RCA-Socket_W0QQitemZ260520047480QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL?hash=item3ca8347378

How to hookup TV

If you have a TV with only a single coax input and you want to hook up components like DVD players and VCRs, here's how to do it.



What you need to connect your DVD player or game players to a TV that only has a VHF/UHF 75-ohm F-connector ("coax antenna input").

1.) RF Modulator with Stereo Audio Inputs.



2.) 6 foot long coaxial cable with male "F" connectors. This cable goes from the modulator to the TV. The modulator also has a coaxial input to plug in your antenna or your VCR.



3.) 6 foot long Video and Audio Cables with "RCA" plugs. The cables connect the yellow, red and white outputs from your DVD or game player to the yellow, red and white inputs of the modulator.





Works with X-Box, PlayStation, Nintendo or other devices that output audio/video via the RCA plugs and you want to connect them to your coaxial only TV.

It depends on what kind of inputs your TV has; here are a few of the most common, all of which your DVD player supports (best quality first):

1) COMPONENT VIDEO (Red, Green, Blue)
If your TV has three inputs for video colored red, green, and blue, this is your best bet for quality video from your DVD player. You may need to buy a component video cable from the store (somewhat pricey, but great quality) which consists of three cables (again, red, green, and blue) stuck together. Just plug the red/green/blue cables into their correspondingly-colored ports on both the DVD player and the TV.
That covers your video. To set up audio, you just need some regular red/white RCA cables. On the DVD player, plug the red/white cables into the correspondingly-colored audio out jacks NEAREST to the red/green/blue cable you used earlier for video, then plug the other end into the audio in red/white jacks on the TV.

2) COMPOSITE VIDEO (Yellow)
If your TV has a yellow input for video, just use a regular yellow RCA cable. Plug it into the yellow video-out jack on the DVD player, then plug the other end into the yellow video-in jack on the TV.
To set up audio, you just need some regular red/white RCA cables. On the DVD player, plug the red/white cables into the correspondingly-colored audio out jacks NEAREST to the yellow cable you used earlier for video, then plug the other end into the audio in red/white jacks on the TV.

3) COAXIAL JACK (Antenna port)
If your TV only has a coaxial jack that you currently plug your antenna or cable line into, you'll need to buy an RF modulater and a short length of coaxial cable (you can find these anwhere: Walmart, Radio Shack, etc).
Plug the RF modulater into an electrical outlet, then plug your antenna/cable line into the "antenna in" jack on the RF modulater. Take the coaxial cable that you just bought and plug it into the "antenna out" jack on the RF modulater, then plug the other end into the antenna/cable jack on the TV. The RF modulater should have a switch on it somewhere that sets either the number 3 or 4; depending on which number you pick, that's the channel that your TV has to be switched to to view the DVD player.
Now you're all set to connect to your DVD player. Just follow the instructions in section (2), only now you're going to plug your cables in the RF modulater instead of the TV.
(I hope this wasn't too confusing; it really is a lot simpler in practice than it is in explanation...)

If you have cable from the wall without cable box, buy an RF modulator. Plug coax into one end of rf modulator, and red, white, yellow cables from an RF modulator that has a RYW OUT to the IN of the DVD player, then a RYW from OUT of dvd player to TV.

If you have a cable box, use RYW instead of coax

There are other possibilities.

RYW means Red Yellow White (better known as a Composite or A/V cable)

What model and manufacturer DVD/VCR combo are you using. if it has a HDMI port, you should buy a HDMI cable to your combo player than to your HDTV (most don't have this High Definition port.)
 otherwise, it probably contains a composite port, connect the red to the red (Left) white to white (mono) and yellow to yellow (Video) than connect the wires to the matching port on your HDTV) then switch the input to AV or Composite.


If this fails, you need a coaxial cable.connect a coaxial cable to your player then to the coaxial port on your tv. change the input to "either Coaxial, Cable 3 or any input that sets it to coaxial input.