[PLUG-TALK] Connecting Consumer Electronics Devices

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 19:07:50 UTC 2009


On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   Disclaimer: I no longer watch TV or movies on tape or disks, but my wife
> does. Therefore, I have lost familiarity with the connectivity issues
> involved in stringing together various devices. What I want to do is add
> the
> DVD player to the DISH satellite receiver <-> TV connection.
>
>   At first I looked at the back of the receiver and DVD player and saw the
> RCA connections (yellow video, red and white audio) on both. Bought
> expensive cable to connect them. Apparently that's the wrong approach.
>
>   The DISH user manual has a page of instruction for connecting a video
> tape
> player between the receiver and the TV; I assume it should be the same if
> the middle device is a DVD player rather than a tape player.
>
>   The instructions are:
>
>   1) Connect a coaxial cable from the CH3-4 OUT port on the receiver to the
> VCR's tuner port.
>
>   2) Connect a coaxial cable from the output of the VCR to the TV's tuner
> port.
>
>   I see a "coaxial video" RCA socket on the rear of the DVD player, but
> that's on the "audio out" panel. There is a DIN connector ('S') under the
> yellow RCA socket for video output. There is another panel with three RCA
> sockets (green, blue, red) marked 'Y', 'Pb', and 'Pr'.
>
>   My assumption is that the expensive cable I bought connects the DVD
> player
> to the TV, The next trick is to connect the DVD player to the satellite
> receiver. That appears to require a cable with three RCA plugs on one end
> and a coax plug on the other. Does such an animal exist?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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Donno about the cable but there is a converter box that does just exactly
what you describe. I'd donate mine if I knew what box it was in doh. About
15 bucks at Fred Meyer.

Drew-
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