The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
Connecting new cable box to TV, etc
Mike Danger
"Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
"Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered User regular
So we recently upgraded our cable plan and Comcast sent us a fancy new digital TV box thing. Here is what we have:
tube TV set: RCA in, RCA (audio only) out, coax in
cable box (Motorola DCH70): coax in, coax out, RCA out
DVD player (Sony DVP-NS55P): RCA out, composite out, "digital out" (this jack is labelled "COAX" in small letters underneath but it doesn't seem to accept the coax cable)
I have an RF modulator that accepts coax in, coax out, and RCA in, too.
How do I connect up the cable box, the DVD player, and the TV? The diagrams that came with the cable box all describe hooking up the DVD player by connecting to both an RCA in and an RCA out connection, but my DVD player has no inputs, only outputs.
tube TV set: RCA in, RCA (audio only) out, coax in
cable box (Motorola DCH70): coax in, coax out, RCA out
DVD player (Sony DVP-NS55P): RCA out, composite out, "digital out" (this jack is labelled "COAX" in small letters underneath but it doesn't seem to accept the coax cable)
I have an RF modulator that accepts coax in, coax out, and RCA in, too.
How do I connect up the cable box, the DVD player, and the TV? The diagrams that came with the cable box all describe hooking up the DVD player by connecting to both an RCA in and an RCA out connection, but my DVD player has no inputs, only outputs.
Mike Danger on
0
Posts
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=composite+switch&x=0&y=0
Everything is plugged into a switch, then you press the button to determine which av feed you want it to pass through.
I couldn't find anything on Monoprice for this, which is weird.
I tried this, but when I tuned to the channel for the DVD player and turned it on, nothing happened.
@Improvolone: Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. I can make another trip over to Radio Shack, but I'd rather not if there's a solution that uses what I have at hand.
coax for the TV
composite for the DVD.
As someone who has fiddled, diddled, and messed around with every model of cable box Comcast has to offer (employee speaking) I find the picture quality from those little boxes is better over coax anyways, whereas your DVD only communicates over composite.
Oh, and that "coax" on your DVD player? That's for surround sound '/ digital audio, if your television doesn't have the same type of connection don't bother, but it's most commonly known as "SPDIF" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF
Edit:
Are you 110% certain you're accessing your DVD player properly? if you're using the Comcast remote to change to the DVD player channel you're doing it wrong. this channel must be tuned to using your original, RCA, television remote.
And honestly, with a TV that old, you're probably not going to see a lot of difference between the RCA and coaxial inputs, so I'd go with Captain Vash's suggestion.
You should be able to use the Comcast remote to change it by pressing the 'Input/TV/VCR' button on the remote if it's set to TV. You may have to program the remote for your TV by looking up the code in the manual/pamphlet.
edit: Don't need to turn off the Comcast box.
1 - Attach TV to Comcast via Coax.
2 - Attach TV to DVD via RCA (Red/White/Yellow)
3 - Turn on TV, turn on DVD, turn on cable box (it may take a minute to sort itself out)
4 - If cable is on, change TV to 'Aux1' or 'Output1' or whatever it is; should switch to DVD
but yeah, if that's not the case, examine your television or RCA television remote for an input or source button, that should get ya to the dvd player.
It would be if he looped it all through coax, but if it's a separate jack, I'd think it'd be on it's own. Who knows, though, it is a CRT so all manner of dark arts may be required.
I'm just curious where they live that the family is sound asleep already. East coast is only 8:30, right?
on a television old enough to only have one coax and one set of composite video connections it would not be unlikely to have to "channel down" to aux instead of actually having a button for it.
This could only work if either the cable box or the vcr had the ability to be switched into a channel 4 mode.
... they do not.
yupyup and the online / ondemand offerings are pretty good these days as well. With offerings from Starz and HBO, the lineup has never been stronger! [/corny salesmen voice]