Hello,

I'm a real non technical kind of guy and need some help. There respective sites offer no help.

I have a dishnetwork sattelite system and bought an RCA dvd player with five speakers. I have no clue how to connect this system. I have tried all the possible connections I could think of to no avail.

The disk is currently connected to the TV. How do I connect the DVD player?
Do I connect directly to the TV?
Do I connect direclty to the sattelite box?

I thought it would be coonected in a daisy chain, you know plug and play, but cant figure it out at all. My wife and Kids are very upset at me cause we've had this for a few months just lying around since I cant seem to get it to work. Please, anyone help by explaining it in kindergarden language a diagram would also be welcomed if possible.

Thanks ahead of time,

NON-TECHIE

You will need to say what kind of TV you have, and does it have more than one set of yellow, white & red connectors on the back? If so, you're in luck. If not, plan B.

As theatreworks says, do you have more "yellow, white & red plugs" on your TV ?
If not do you have perhaps a red, green, & blue plugs ? Those are componet video connections, a better signal for your dvd player to use. And since you say the dvd player has 5 speakers I assume they can come out of the dvd player directly.
Worst case senario, buy a surround reciever.

Thanks.

I have two TV's I could use for this system.

One has two sets of a/v jacks, 1 in front and 1 in the back (W,R,Y)
The other has the same as above inaddtion to the red, green, & blue plugs. Whichever is easiest to setup is the one I want to use :-)

non-techie

Use the tv with the red, green & blue connectors. Use the red, green & blue connectors (video/picture) to go from the back of the DVD player to the tv. You should also find an associated set of red & white connectors (audio/sound) on the back of the tv and the DVD player, connect these as well.

Use the red, white & yellow plugs to connect the satellite receiver to the tv. You'll find a set of these on the back of the satellite receiver; just connect from the sat receiver to the tv.

Thanks theaterworks,

I will try this hookup and let you know my results.


non-techie